6476_BFF BuyGuide'05 ƒ WEBv 30/6/05 3:28 pm Page 12 Sample regional menus Encourage interest in Britain’s regional food and drink heritage! Team regional foods and with local beers and ciders for a truly distinctive offering. And remember to consider regionalising your children’s menu too. Think beyond the nugget! The following menus are intended to give you some ideas for making your menu regionally distinct. This may be by including traditional dishes on your menu (and some are mentioned to get you going) or by increasing the emphasis of provenance on your existing menu. Why not mention the breed of used for your roast lamb or the farm on which it was raised? What about mentioning the variety of apple you use or the name of your producer? Specifying provenance on your menu will help make it more distinctive. Did you know £34 billion each year is now being spent on eating out in the UK? (Horizons FS Limited research, 2005) Bed & menu North West North East Freshly squeezed Keswick Codlin Apple Juice. Craster and Scrambled Eggs. Popovers. A full Cumbrian Breakfast including locally- Singin’ Hinnies. Yo r kshire Smoked Salmon and Scrambled Eggs. smoked , Cumberland , local Bacon Floddies served with and Eggs. Whitby Kippers and . free-range Eggs, and Mushrooms. Kedgeree. Yo rk Ham with Poached Egg.

Midlands East of South West Brummie Bacon Cakes. Favourite Strawberry and Bucks Fizz made with sparkling wine made from served with locally-laid Banana Smoothie. Seyval Blanc grape grown in South West. Eggs and Tamworth Bacon. Newmarket Sausages. A Full English Breakfast including Lincolnshire Sausages. Toasted English with Norfolk Strawberry Old Spots Bacon, Marsh Daisy Preserve. Fried Eggs, Black Pudding.

South East Bucks Fizz made with sparkling wine from Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier grapes all grown in the South East. Poached White Eggs on Toast. Oxford Sausages served with Hot Buttered Toast and Oxford . Wales Porridge. Laver sprinkled with fine Welsh Oatmeal and served with local Bacon. Omelette. 6476_BFF BuyGuide'05 ƒ WEBv 30/6/05 4:14 pm Page 13 Pub menu North West North East Yorkshire

STARTER STARTER STARTER Golden Vegetable Soup served with freshly A bowl of Northumberland served Whitby Crab Cakes. baked Cheese Bread. with Homemade Bread. Beetroot and Yorkshire Feta . Panhaggerty made with Cheese. Craster . MAIN COURSE MAIN COURSE MAIN COURSE Roast Limestone Country and Yorkshire Barmcakes filled with Cumberland Cure Ham. Alnwick Stew. Puddings. Homemade with Mash. . West Riding Lamb Faggots(3). Homemade British White Beef Burger and Jacket Potato with Northumberland Gouda. Yo rk Ham. Hand Cut Chips. DESSERT DESSERT Newcastle Pudding. Yo r kshire Curd Tart. Cumberland Rum Nicky. Baked Mrs Lakeman’s Seedlings Apples. Ribston Pippin Apple served with a wedge Warm served with Whipped Cream. of . Midlands South West

STARTER STARTER STARTER Stilton and Walnut Pate spread on Hot Toast. Salad of Marsh Samphire, Fens Asparagus and Mulled Farmhouse Cider served with Warwickshire Drooper Plum Jerkum with Pork Cromer Crab. Homemade Pork Scratchings. Scratchings. Angels on Horsebacks with Native from -grown Sorrel Soup served with a Colchester. Dorset Knob. MAIN COURSE Cheese Platter of , Stilton & Sage MAIN COURSE MAIN COURSE Derby served with Bread & Homemade Suffolk Sweet Pickled Ham . Cornish . Chutneys. Jugged Hare. Ploughman’s with a Farmhouse Double Northamptonshire Clanger. Grilled Norfolk Herrings with Hot English Gloucester,Wholemeal Bread from the local Locally Produced served with Mustard. baker and a dollop of Homemade . English Mustard. Hereford Beef Steak Sandwich with chucky relish. DESSERT DESSERT Cambridge College Pudding. Dittisham Ploughman Plum Ice Cream. DESSERT Burnt Cream. Stewed Dimmock Red Plums with Seyval Blanc Pudding. Wine . South East Wales

STARTER STARTER London Particular – Green Pea Soup. Gower Peninsula A Pint Glass of . Leek and Potato Soup served with a wedge of Laver Bread. MAIN COURSE . MAIN COURSE Pork Braised in Farmhouse Cider Vinegar. and Salad. Eels in Green Sauce(1). Cawl. Kentish Potato and Chicken Salad(2). Boiled Leg of Welsh Lamb with Caper Sauce.

DESSERT DESSERT Sutton Pie made with Cockle Pippin Apples and Breakwell’s Seedling Apple Sponge. a topping of porridge oats. Seasonal Fruit Salad. 1) An A-Z of Food and Wine in Plain English by Tom and Frances Bissell, Pan, 2003 Kentish Red Cherry . 2) British Potato Council: www.potato.org.uk 3) The Regional Food Group for Yorkshire and Humber 6476_BFF BuyGuide'05 ƒ WEBv 30/6/05 3:41 pm Page 14 Restaurant menu North West North East Yorkshire

STARTER STARTER STARTER Morecambe Bay Potted served with Potted Salmon served with freshly Locally Smoked Haddock Fishcakes. freshly baked Brown Bread. Baked Brown Bread. MAIN COURSE MAIN COURSE MAIN COURSE Fillet of Beef Limestone Country Beef with Freshwater Salmon Papillote. Hallowe’en Mutton Casserole (1). Yo r kshire Blue and Whiskey Sauce. Roast Gressingham Duck with a Confit of Duke Northumberland Mussels in Cream. Grilled Whitby Cod with garlic and herb . of Devonshire Apples and Prunes. DESSERT DESSERT DESSERT Baked Mrs Lakeman’s Seedlings Apples served Cheese Platter with Wensleydale,Yorkshire Blue & A Cheese Platter accompanied with Homemade Custard. Swaledale served with Yorkshire . by Lancashire Oatcakes. Baked Ginger with Rhubarb ripple ice-cream and hot spiced syrup(2).

Midlands East of England South West

STARTER STARTER STARTER Vale of Evesham Asparagus with A Platter including Essex Oysters Dorset Sausage served on Hot Toast. Hollandaise Sauce. served on a bed of ice. Mussels cooked in local Farmhouse Cider. Potted Beef Spread on Hot Toast. MAIN COURSE MAIN COURSE MAIN COURSE Roast Norfolk Turkey. Fillet of Gloucestershire Old Spot Pork with local Roast with a Newton Wonder Honey Roast Essex Gammon on a Bed of Hot Wild Mushrooms,White Wine from locally-grown Apple Stuffing. English Mustard Mash with Queen Apple Sauce. Seyval Blanc grape & Sage Leaves. Redcap Chicken Breast with Wild Fillet of Red Devon Beef with Sauce Bordelaise Mushroom & Bacon Stuffing and Marsala Sauce(3). DESSERT made with Red Wine from Devon-grown Pavlova with locally-grown Berries. Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. DESSERT Cambridge Favourite Strawberry Sorbet with Oldbury Tart made with local Gooseberries. Fresh Strawberry Sauce. DESSERT A Glass of delicious dessert wine from Cornish Burnt Cream Pudding. . Bristol Cross Pears Poached in Red Wine made from locally grown Rondo Grape.

‘Restaurants and South East Wales pubs that put quality, seasonal STARTER Smoked River Test STARTER and regional produce, clearly identified Pate with a Watercress Salad. A Salad of Crumbled Caerphilly Cheese, Local as such, on their menus see an increase in Jerusalem Artichoke Soup with a hunk of freshly To matoes and Lentils. Baked Hazelnut Bread. trade. Putting regionally distinct food on the MAIN COURSE menu makes commercial sense – it is MAIN COURSE Loin of Llanwenog Lamb Poached in Red Wine as simple as that.’ Roast Pork with Crackling. made from locally-grown Pinot Noir grape. Burrows, Mustard and Herb Rubbed Leg of Oxford Glamorgan Sausages served with homemade Les Routiers Down Lamb(4). Breakwell’s Seedling Apple Chutney.

DESSERT DESSERT Hazelnut Meringues with Homemade Baker’s Delicious Apples and Cox’s Emperor Plums 1) The Mutton Renaissance Chocolate Sauce. Grilled and served with a Cider-based Custard. 2) The Gastro Pub by Diana Henry, Mitchell Beazley, 2003 Local Cheeses served with Surrey Water . 3) Delia’s Winter Collection by , BBC Books, 1995 4) Tuck In, Issue 6, English Beef and Lamb Executive 6476_BFF BuyGuide'05 ƒ WEBv 30/6/05 3:45 pm Page 17 Cheese Boards North West North East Yorkshire (Mature and Mild); Red Northumberland Gouda; Coquetdale; Wensleydale; Blue Wensleydale;Wensleydale with Cheshire; Blue Cheshire; Smoked Cheshire; Chevington; Brinkburn; Elsdon Goat; Cranberries or Apricots; Oak Smoked Ribblesdale , Sheep and Buffalo Cheeses; Northumberland Chive; Northumberland Wensleydale; Mature Wensleydale; Swaledale; Lancashire (Crumbly, Creamy and Tasty); Blue Garlic; Redesdale; Hadrian; Reiver. Swaledale Goat; Richmond Smoked; Swaledale Lancashire; Lancashire with Apple and Cinnamon. Chives and Garlic; Cheddar with Caramelised Onions; Buffalo Blue;Yorkshire Blue; Shire Blue; Goat, Buffalo and Sheep Cheeses. Midlands East of England Wales Double Worcester; Old Worcester; Norfolk White Lady;Wighton Soft Cheese; Gorwydd Farm; Caerphilly; Pantysgawen; Cheese; ; Walsingham;Wissington; Melton; Soft and Hard Llanboidy; Llangloffan; Perl Wen. Innes Button; Ragstone; Finn & Bosworth Goats Goats Cheeses. Cheeses; Berkswell Sheep Cheese; Derby; ; Orange Grove; Red Leicester; Blue Stilton;White Stilton; Lincolnshire Poacher; ; Poacher’s Little Imp. South West Buffalo Cheese; ; Single Gloucester; Double Gloucester; Brie; Soft Goats and Ewe Cheeses; ;West Country Farmhouse; Devon Blue; Dorset Blue Vinny; Beenleigh Blue. South East Old Plaw Hatch; Rumbold’s Rustic; Lord of the Hundreds; Basing Smoked Goat’s Cheese ;Waterloo; Luddesdown with Tar rogan and Shallots. 6476_BFF BuyGuide'05 ƒ WEBv 30/6/05 3:45 pm Page 18 Time for Tea? North West North East Yorkshire Eccles Cakes; Chorley Cakes; Desolate Cakes; Courting Cakes; Lemon Cakes; Rascal Tea Yo r kshire Parkin;Toasted and Buttered Tea Goosenargh Cakes; Bobbie’s Feat;Westmorland Cake toasted and served with butter; Felton Cakes;Yorkshire Curd Tart. Pepper Cake; Chester Buns; Borrowdale Tea Cake. Spice Loaf; Northumbrian Griddle Cake. South East Wales Midlands Grantham ; Staffordshire Fruit Cake; Reading Biscuits; Maids of Honour; Banbury Barabrith;Teisen Lap;Teisen Carawe;Teisen Pikelets served hot with butter; Shrewsbury Cake; Chelsea Buns; Kentish Pudding Pie; Huffkins. Sinamon;Teisen Mêl;Welsh Cakes; Crusty Swansea. ; Lincolnshire Plum Bread; Staffordshire Oatcakes served with butter & homemade jam.

East of England Cambridge Gage Plum Tart; Early Heart Cherry Muffin; Boiled Norfolk Fruit Cake.

South West ; ; Sally Lunn Cake; comprising of Homemade , Farmhouse & Strawberry Jam; Devonshire Splits; Cornish Splits; Devon Flat Biscuits; Cornish Saffron Cake; Melcombe Russet Apple Cake.