Images and Recipes of Traditional British and Irish Food

Here are Britain and Ireland's Favorite Foods.

This photo gallery, complete with recipes, shows images of traditional British and Irish recipes. Both British and Irish food have a long history and heritage as well as a unique modern face.

Do keep checking back as these pages are updated frequently with new foods and recipes for you to enjoy.

Let's Start With the Favorites: Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding

Probably one of the best known of all British recipes and loved around the world is the famous Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding as known as a Sunday Roast.

• How to Cook the Perfect Sunday Roast
• Foolproof Yorkshire Pudding Recipe

Deep-fried fish in a crispy batter with fat golden chips is still one of Britain and Ireland's favorite meals.

• How to Make Great Fish and Chips

Ever wondered what is in the classic full English breakfast? Here is the answer.

• What is a Full English Breakfast?

These breakfasts can be Scottish, Welsh or Irish too.

The Cornish pasty is known and loved throughout Britain and Ireland. The pasty evolved from Cornish tin miners' lunch as it is hearty, easy to hold and easy to eat.

• Cornish Pasty Recipe
• Watch My Video on Making Cornish Pasties

Irish stew warms the cockles every time. No wonder this dish is loved so very much. 

• Traditional Irish Stew Recipe

The best Welsh lamb is early spring lamb. What better way to serve it than slow roasted with pungent garlic and a good sauce.

• Welsh Stuffed Leg of Lamb Recipe

Burns Night, Hogmanay and a good Scottish breakfast are never complete without Haggis. 

• Traditional Haggis, Tatties and Neeps

Cock-a-Leekie Soup is a peasant dish with many regional variations, some which go back as far as the 16th century.

• Cock-a-Leekie Soup Recipe

Traditionally, this dish is served at Halloween with coins wrapped up in silver foil hidden in the mash, but is suitable for any day of the year.

• Irish Colcannon Recipe

Home made scones, both sweet and savory, are made quickly and easily as in this scones recipe. They are delicious hot or cold and a must for afternoon​ tea.

• The Best British Scones Recipe

From the nursery to the most sophisticated restaurant, you cannot escape the British classic and most traditional of British foods - a Rhubarb Crumble. Just what it is that excites about this recipe is hard to pin-point; the astringent rhubarb alongside the crunch and bite of buttery crumble? Who knows, except everyone loves it.

• Rhubarb Crumble Recipe

Traditional British flapjack is absolutely one of the easiest of all tray bakes. 

• Traditional British Flapjack Recipe
• Traditional British Flapjack - Fruit Flapjack Recipe

Bakewell tart is the famous British tart made in the picturesque town of Bakewell; a delicious dessert and a delightful afternoon treat.

• Traditional Bakewell Tart Recipe

Eton Mess is an all-time classic British dessert which was traditionally served at Eton College. How it came to have the name is not clear, but it is believed to be when a Labrador dog sat on a picnic basket and squashed the contents.

• Classic Eton Mess Recipe

Yorkshire Curd Tart is a special tart from the beautiful county of Yorkshire in Northern England. 

• Yorkshire Curd Tart Recipe

Bread and Butter Puddings are one of the easiest to make and an excellent way to use-up leftover white or brown bread.

• Bread and Butter Pudding Recipe

Lemon Meringue Pie is a famous traditional British dish. Sadly, the Lemon Meringue Pie fell out of fashion in recent years, but it is now back on the menu and loved. 

• Lemon Meringue Recipe

A Hot Cross Bun is always in any list of Easter recipes, as it is customary to eat the buns on Good Friday.

• Hot Cross Bun Recipe

When there is an abundance of summer berry fruits one of the best ways of serving them is in an English Summer Pudding.

• Summer Pudding Recipe

The name of this classic English pudding usually will raise a smile or look of abject horror, which is why some prefer the lesser-known title of "spotted dog".

• Spotted Dick Recipe

A hot English summer's day, watching Wimbledon, the cricket or simply lazing in the back garden, one essential drink must be a glass of Pimm's.

• Recipe for the Perfect Pimms

A dish of golden, shining Marmalade always takes center stage at any breakfast table.

• Traditional Marmalade Recipe

Date and Walnut Pudding is a classic British pudding. A steamed sponge pudding is the same for all flavors, so let your imagination run loose.

• Date and Walnut Steamed Sponge Recipe

Here are the needed guidelines to make a proper cup of English tea.

Everyone has an opinion on how to make a ‘proper’ cup of tea. The first ingredient must be leaf tea, not tea bags and certainly not powder. Only black tea is ‘real’ tea in Britain.

• How to Make a Cup of Tea

No British Christmas lunch is complete without a Roast Turkey.

Traditionally Roast Goose was the preferred Christmas roast in Britain and Ireland until the new-fangled bird arrived from America in the 16th century. Now, no British or Irish Christmas dinner would be complete without a Roast Turkey.

• Roast Turkey Recipe

No British Christmas is ever complete without a traditional Christmas Pudding. Do not be daunted by the number of ingredients; a little organization, some time and you will have the quintessential Christmas pudding.

• Christmas Pudding Recipe

No Christmas is complete without a plate or two of traditional mince pies.

• Mince Pie Recipe

 A dense rich fruit Christmas Cake is an essential part of a traditional British Christmas.

• Traditional British Christmas Cake

Softly boiled, fresh eggs and Marmite soldiers,is a lovely and very British breakfast.

A lovely and very British breakfast