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- aubergine : eggplant
- bake blind : bake a pastry case empty, by covering with wax
paper and weighing down with beans
- bap : hamburger bun
- beetroot : beet
- biscuit : cookie or cracker (sweet biscuit or savoury biscuit)
- boiled sweet : hard candy
- brill: avoid it - it's a fish
- broad bean : fava bean
- brown bread : wholemeal bread
- brown stock : stock, vegetable OXO cubes, vegetable stock,
marmite
- candy floss : cotton candy
- caster sugar : finely granulated sugar -not as powdery as
confectioner's
- chicory : endive
- chips : french fries
- chocolate vermicelli : chocolate sprinkles
- cider : hard cider
- cling film : Saran wrap
- coffee sugar : sugar in large crystals
- coriander leaves : cilantro
- corn : almost any grain (see maize and sweet corn)
- corn flour : cornstarch
- cos lettuce : romaine
- courgette : zucchini
- crisps : potato chips
- crumpet : something a bit like an English muffin - Crumpets
are also an old fashioned slang name for a toy boy or an affair.
- custard : custard sauce, or sometimes baked custard
- Demerara sugar : light brown cane sugar
- Devonshire cream : a particular type of clotted cream. Although
most cream is described as "single", "double"
or "whipping". It turns out that the UK brand of cream
alternative called "Elmlea" isn't vegan: it has buttermilk
in it which is a dairy product.
- digestive biscuits : something like Graham crackers
- double cream : heavy cream
- doughnut : jelly doughnut
- endive : chicory
- faggot : meatball. Faggot is slightly used to mean a gay
man, but less so than in the USA
- fairy cake : cupcake. Likewise.
- French beans : string beans
- ginger nut : ginger snap
- golden syrup or treacle : something like corn syrup
- greaseproof paper : wax paper, obviously
- green pepper : bell pepper
- icing : frosting
- icing sugar : powdered (confectioner's) sugar
- jacket potato : baked potato in skin
- jam: preserve
- jelly: jello
- maize : corn
- marmite: yeast extract
- marrow : squash that looks like a giant zucchini
- mince - a way of buying meat that is like TVP or Sosmix made
from water
- mincemeat : mince pie filling - dried fruit, peel, brandy,
etc. Sold as a cheap ingredient in jam jars. This is vegetarian
and probably vegan.
- mixed spice : a mixture of allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger,
coriander and cloves
- offal: down-market butcher's products. Unlikely to be found
by a veggie search
site engine, but possible
- perry : hard cider made from pears instead of apples
- plum duff : plum pudding, apparently,although most people
call it Christmas pudding.
- porridge : cooked oatmeal
- prawn: avoid - it's dead shrimps
- ring doughnut : doughnut in a ring shape, as opposed to a
jam doughnut which is a doughy bun with sweet jam in it
- rump steak : avoid - it's sirloin meat
- silverside : top round
- single cream : light cream
- sirloin : avoid - it's meat
- sherbet : powdered candy
- sponge finger : ladyfinger
- squash : juice drink. Usually the sort that's sugar and colouring,
to dilute.
- sugar crystals : see coffee sugar
- sultana : white raisin
- sweet corn : whole-kernel corn
- swede : yellow turnip
- tart : pie, prostitute or someone who is promiscuous. There
us usually no moral judgment against.
- toffee : taffy
- treacle or golden syrup - sweet light brown translucent molasses.
The darker, more bitter kind (if it is still made) is called
molasses or black treacle
- whipping cream : between light & heavy cream
- wholemeal: whole wheat
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- allspice : ground permento
- beet : beetroot
- bell pepper : green pepper
- chocolate sprinkles : chocolate vermicelli
- chicory : endive
- chips: crisps
- cookie: sweet biscuit
- cilantro : coriander leaves
- confectioner's sugar : icing sugar
- cooked oatmeal : porridge
- corn : maize or sweetcorn
- cornstarch : corn flour
- corn syrup : sometimes used when making sweets, this is a
thinner version of the english treacle - light or dark
- cotton candy: candy floss
- cracker: savoury or cheese biscuit
- cupcake: cupcake or fairy cake.
- custard sauce : custard
- English muffin : crumpet
- endive : chicory
- eggplant: aubergine
- fava bean : broad bean
- french fries : chips
- frosting : icing
- ginger snap : ginger nut
- graham crackers : digestive biscuits
- grain : corn
- hard candy: boiled sweet
- hard cider : cider (cider can also mean apple juice in the
USA)
- hard pear cider : perry
- heavy cream (vegan) : double Elmlea
- jello : jelly
- juice drink : squash
- ladyfinger : sponge finger
- mince: hamburger meat
- pie filling (sweet, dried fruit): mincemeat. This is not
meat.
- plum pudding / christmas pudding : plum duff
- potato chips : crisps
- powdered candy - sherbet
- preserve : jam
- romaine : cos lettuce
- Saran wrap : cling film
- single cream : light cream
- sirloin - a type of meat - beef
- string beans ; french beans, runner beans
- stock, vegetable OXO, vegetable stock, marmite: brown stock
- sugar in large crystals : coffee sugar
- sugar, light brown cane: Demarara sugar
- tart : pie, prostitute or someone who is promiscuous. There
us usually no moral judgment against.
- toretos: chips, potato chips
- molasses : seems to be a generic name for black and light
brown treacle
- taffy : toffee
- yellow turnip : swede
- white raisin - sultana
- whole-kernel corn : sweet corn
- whole wheat : wholemeal
- zucchini : courgette
- zuchinni, largest : marrow
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