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In the USA	In the UK
A dessert made of milk and egg yolks with a touch of vanilla	Custard
A hard-boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat and coated in bread crumbs	Scotch egg
A mixture of allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, coriander and cloves	Mixed spice
A particular type of clotted cream	Devonshire cream
A slice of bacon	Rasher
A type of lamb chop	Chump chop
All-purpose flour	Plain flour
Almost any grain	Corn
Aluminium foil	Tin foil
An open pie usually sweet	Tart
Appetizer	Starter
Apple crisp	Apple crumble
Arugula	Rocket
Bake a pastry case empty, by covering with wax paper and weighing down with beans	Bake blind
Baked potato	Jacket potato
Baking soda	Bicarbonate of soda
Beat	Whisk
Beef chuck	Stewing steak
Beef roast	Joint
Beef stock	Brown stock
Beer with lemonade	Shandy
Beet	Beetroot
Bell peppers	Capsicum
Bell peppers	Peppers
Bell pepper	Red/green/yellow pepper
Bermuda onion	Spanish onion
Bing cherries	Black cherries
Black beans	Black turtle beans
Black cod	Coal fish
Black cod	Cooley
Black raisins	Red grapes
Blender	Liquidizer
Blood sausage	Black pudding
Blueberry	Bilberry
Bologna sausage	Polony
Bordeaux	Claret
Bouillon cube	Beef stock cube
Bouillon cube	Chicken stock cube
Bouillon cube	Stock cube
Bread flour	Strong flour
Bread pudding	Bread and butter pudding
Bread roll containing French fries	Chip butty
Breakfast of fried eggs, fried sausage, fried bread, fried bacon	Fry up
Broil	Grill
Brown cane sugar (or light brown)	Demerara sugar
Cake batter	Cake mixture
Cake flour	Pastry flour
Canadian bacon	Lean bacon
Candied cherries	Glace cherries
Candied fruits	Crystallised fruits
Candied fruits	Glace fruits
Candy	Sweets
Candy store	Sweetshop
Canned	Tinned
Canned pressed ham (see salt beef)	Corned beef
Carbonated drink	Fizzy drink
Casserole	Bake
Casserole	Gratin
Cheap wine usually red	Plonk
Check	Bill (at restaurant)
Cheesecloth	Muslin
Chicken stock	White stock
Chicory	Curly endive
Chicory	Endive
Chili pepper	Chili
Chocolate chips	Chocolate drops
Chocolate sprinkles	Chocolate vermicelli
Cilantro	Coriander leaves
Clean (fish)	Gut (fish)
Clotted cream	Cornish cream
Coffee sugar	Sugar crystals
Coffee with	White coffee
Coffee without	Black coffee
Compressed yeast	Fresh yeast
Confectioner’s sugar	Icing sugar
Cooked oatmeal	Porridge
Cookie	Biscuit (sweet)
Cookie dough	Biscuit mixture
Coriander	Coriander seeds
Corn	Maize
Corned beef	Bully beef
Corned beef	Salt beef
Cornstarch	Cornflour
Cotton candy	Candyfloss
Cracker	Biscuit (savoury)
Crackers	Water biscuits
Crawfish	Crayfish
Cream of wheat	Semolina
Cream puff	Profiterole
Cultured sour cream	Soured cream
Cumberland sauce	Oxford sauce
Cup of noodle	Pot noodle
Cup of tea	Brew
Cup of tea	Cuppa
Cupcake	Fairy cake
Dark ale made with hops	Bitter
Delicious	Scrummy
Dessert	Afters
Dessert	Pudding
Dessert	Sweet
Dill pickle	Pickled cucumber
Double boiler	Bain marie
Doughnut	Ring doughnut
Drunk	Stoned
Eat, dig in	Tuck in
Eggplant	Aubergine
Endive	Chicory
Entrée	Main course
Evening meal	Supper
Evening meal	Tea
Evening meal, dinner	High tea
Extract	Essence
Fat from roasted meat	Dripping
Fava bean	Broad bean
Filo dough	Filo pastry
Finger sized slices of toast	Soldiers
Fish sticks	Fish fingers
Fish stock	White stock
Flatware or silverware	Cutlery
Food	Grub
Food	Nosh
French fries	Chips
French toast	Eggy bread (fried)
Fresh cider	Freshly made apple juice
Frosting	Icing
Fruit candies covered with powdered sugar	Sherbet fruit
Fruit drink concentrate	Cordial
Fruit drink concentrate	Squash
Garbanzo	Chickpea
Gelatin	Gelatine
Gelatin	Jelly
Ginger root	Root ginger
Ginger snap	Ginger nut
Golden raisins	Sultanas
Gourd	Marrow
Graham	Wholemeal
Gram flour	Chickpea flour
Granola	Muesli
Great northern beans	Butter beans
Green bean	French bean
Green beans	Runner beans
Green onion	Scallion
Green onion	Spring onion
Ground beef	Mince
Ground beef	Minced meat
Gyro	Doner kebab
Half and half	Single cream
Halfway between light and heavy cream	Whipping cream
Hamburger bun	Bap
Hamburger meat	Minced meat
Hard candy	Boiled sweet
Hard cider	Cider
Hard cider made from pears instead of apples	Perry
Hard rectangular currant cookie	Garibaldi
Head lettuce	Iceberg lettuce
Heavy cream	Double cream
Hungry	Peckish
Instant custard sauce powder	Custard powder
Irish or American whiskey	Whiskey
Jawbreaker	Gobstopper
Jell-O®	Jelly
Jelly	Jam
Jelly doughnut	Doughnut
Jelly roll	Swiss roll
Juice drink	Squash
Ketchup	Tomato sauce
Ladyfinger	Sponge finger
Large, thick, round piece of ham	Gammon
Leavening agent	Raising agent
Less sweet than graham crackers	Digestive biscuits
Light brown sugar	Soft brown sugar
Light corn syrup	Golden syrup
Light cream	Single cream
Lima bean	Butter bean
Liquor	Spirit
Liquor store	Off-licence
Liverwurst	Liver sausage
Lox	Smoked salmon
Lunch or evening meal	Dinner
Matzos	Water biscuits
Mayonnaise and vinegar used as a salad dressing	Salad cream
Meat pie or fruit pie	Pie
Meat turnover	Cornish pasty
Meatball	Faggot
Mid-morning snack at 11am	Elevenses
Milk that’s almost as thick as light cream	Channel island milk
Molasses	Black treacle
Molasses	Treacle
Napkin	Serviette
Navy beans	Haricot beans
Oatmeal cookie	Oatcakes (Scottish)
Oatmeal pancakes	Oatcakes (Staffordshire)
Open top pie	Flan
Over	Fried egg on both sides
Over easy	Fried egg lightly on both sides
Package biscuit mix	Dumpling mix
Panela	Jaggery
Panocha	Jaggery
Papaya	Paw paw
Peanut	Ground nut
Peanut oil	Ground nut oil
Peanuts (unshelled)	Monkey nuts
Phyllo dough	Filo pastry
Pickle	Gherkin
Pie	Tart
Pie case	Pastry case
Pig’s foot	Pig’s trotter
Piloncillo	Jaggery
Pine nuts	Pine kernels
Pit	Stone
Plastic wrap	Clingfilm
Plum pudding	Plum duff
Popsicle	Ice lolly
Porterhouse steak	Sirloin
Potato	Tatty
Potato and cabbage/sprouts	Bubble and squeak
Potato cake	Tatty scone
Potato chips	Crisps
Powdered candy	Sherbet
Powdered sugar	Icing sugar
Preserves	Conserves
Raw vegetables	Fresh vegetables
Roast beef	Joint
Roll	Bap
Romaine	Cos lettuce
Rutabaga	Swede
Sandwich	Butty
Sandwich	Sarnie
Saran wrap	Clingfilm
Sausage	Bangers
Sausages and mashed potatoes	Bangers and mash
Savoury batter made of milk, eggs and flour cooked in the oven	Yorkshire pudding
Scallion	Spring onion
Scots whisky	Whisky
Scottish dish consisting of a sheep’s or calf’s offal	Haggis
Seeded	Pitted
Seeded	Stoned
Seedless white raisins	Sultanas
Seeds	Pips
Self-rising flour	Self-raising flour
Semi-sweet chocolate	Plain chocolate
Sherbet	Sorbet
Shortening	Vegetable fat
Shredded coconut	Desiccated coconut
Similar to Canadian bacon	Back bacon
Similar to turbot	Brill
Similar to Vegemite	Marmite
Sirloin	Rump steak
Slice of meat	Collop
Small alcoholic drink usually a spirit	Tipple
Small bread roll	Bap
Small pork sausage	Chipolata
Small shrimp	Prawn
Small silvery fish, usually deep-fried whole	Whitebait
Smoked herring	Kipper
Snow pea	Mange-tout
Something a bit like an English muffin (English muffins do not exist in England)	Crumpet
Spicy, tangy brown coloured sauce	Brown sauce
Sprinkles	Hundreds and thousands
Squash	Marrow
Straight up drink	Neat (as in alcohol)
String beans	French beans
Strips of bacon	Streak bacon
Stuffing mixture	Forcemeat
Suet pudding with raisins in it	Spotted dick
Sugar in large brightly-coloured crystals	Coffee sugar
Sunny side up	Fried egg on one side only
Superfine sugar	Caster sugar
Sweet sherry	Sack
Taffy	Toffee
Take out	Take-away
Tea-break	Tea-break
Tenderloin steak	Fillet steak
Top round	Topside beef
Top round	Silverside
Tuna	Tunny
Turnip	Swede
Two sirloins in one roast	Baron of beef
Unflavoured yoghurt	Natural yoghurt
Unsweetened cocoa	Cocoa powder
Unsweetened zwieback	Rusks
Vanilla pudding	Blancmange
Variety meats	Offal
Wax paper	Greaseproof paper
Whip	Whisk
Whisky	Scotch
Whole kernel corn	Sweetcorn
Whole wheat	Wholemeal
Wholemeal bread	Brown bread
Yellow turnip	Swede
Yorkshire pudding containing sausages	Toad in the hole
Zucchini	Marrow
Zucchini	Courgette