Innes Button. A fresh goat’s milk cheese from Staffordshire with good flavour. This cheese was Supreme Champion at 1994 British Cheese Awards.
Small onions picked at an early stage. These are commonly used for pickling and in dishes requiring small onions such as beef bourguignonne.
A small game bird which lives on the ground. It is found in warmer parts of Africa, Europe and Asia.
The larger portion of the tenderloin found in the beef primal sirloin. It is used to fabricate chateaubriand.
Liverpudlian slang for a sandwich. During the 1960's the rise of many groups from the area, not least the Beatles, popularised the language of that region. Almost anyone who was a flower child would know what a butty was.
A firm, blue cow’s milk cheese from Derbyshire. One of a few British cheeses to gain PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) status.
Atlantic rock oyster. A variety of oyster up to 15 cm (6") in length found on the American side of the Atlantic. Unlike many oysters this is usually cooked, served on the half shell. This is because it is quite a fatty oyster, particularly when large, which is improved by cooking. All down the eastern seaboard the Atlantic oyster is called after the area in which it is found, e.g. the Long Island oyster, Chesapeake Bay oysters and so on. The best known is probably the bluepoint.
A variety of very large, crips cooking apple raised in 1915 in Byfleet in Surrey by George Carpenter as a cross between Bramley's Seedling and Lane's Prince Albert. It cooks to a light purée. This is a late-season apple, harvested from early October in South-East England, is stored and is at its best between October and January.
