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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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steak and kidney pudding
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Pieces of beef steak and kidney in a brown sauce, steamed in a bowl lined and covered with suet pastry. It is considered now the quintessentially English dish, but the kidney seems to have been added only in the mid-19C; it first appears in one of Mrs *Beeton's recipes. Before that a plain steak pudding filled the same national role, being known as *John Bull's pudding in a beef-oriented tradition which includes O The *Roast Beef of Old England.
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