White haricot beans (US: navy beans) flavoured with molasses and salt pork and baked in an earthenware marmite very slowly for many hours until it is a rich dark brown. This recipe was devised to allow the puritan wives of New England to provide a meal on the Sabbath without working on the Sabbath. The dish would be assembled and the marmite taken to the baker on Saturday.
Coal fish, saithe, coley, called pollock in the US. A cheap fish found in the Atlantic ocean and fished from Nova Scotia to Virginia. It has slightly brownish flesh which lightens as it is cooked. It is related to cod and has lean, sweet flesh and darker skin. It is used for gefilte fish in North America and for making imitation shellfish products.
Traditionally served with Boston baked beans, this steamed rye bread with yeast is flavoured with molasses and may be made with added wholemeal and corn meal. It may also contain raisins.
A primal pork cut from just above the primal pork shoulder. It includes a portion of the bladebone and is meaty and tender. Good for roasts and steaks. Boston butt can also refer to a sandwich made from this meat when it is smoke-roasted for a long time and then the pork pulled from the bone with a fork and served in shreds between bread. Meat like this is also called pulled pork.
A sponge cake with two layers filled with beaten cream custard or crème pâtissière, sometimes with fruit, and coated with chocolate icing.
A warming soup made with white fish, clams and potatoes, sometimes with other vegetables added, cooked in fish stock and milk.
A large, thin, lightly sweetened biscuit (US: cracker) usually served with cheese.
