Foods SomersetGirl Has Tried

You can roast your potatoes in this rendered fat, or just spread it on bread and eat it cold.

Baloney's predecessor is sweet, delicately spiced, and bigger than your head.

These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.

Sour green sweets commemorate a victorious Scottish skirmish of 1337.

A now-archaic Scottish breakfast paved the way for this popular dessert.

The caffeinated wine is made by British monks and loved by Scottish criminals.

The best place to find the “nectar of the gods” is Holy Island.

Baking this dual-layered bread is a difficult art.

In the 1960s, Royal Air Force pilots made a startling discovery about their sweets.

A citrusy cream soda with a hint of rust outsells Coca-Cola in Scotland.

This rustic cider's name derives from an English term for fruit thievery.

The melon has its own sculpture, festival, and order of knights.

Not even Harry Potter could resist this whimsical British dessert.

The original energy bar.

The traditional sweet currant cake has an incendiary reputation.

This sweet Scottish pudding gets boiled in a bag for special occasions.

On November 5, the British celebrate a thwarted assassination attempt with bonfires and deliciously dense, sticky gingerbread.

This summery parfait has mingled with British royals and literary elites.

In Yorkshire, the holidays usher in this salty-sweet combo.

A sweet and sticky accident from Derbyshire, England.

Once steamed in shirt sleeves and pant legs, this sweet roll took on the nickname “dead man's leg.”

Spread this fat-poached meat on a crusty French loaf.

Only one bakery still makes these hard biscuits that were once beloved by Thomas Hardy.

Invented in Scotland in the late 1800s, this syrupy “instant coffee” is now a beloved baking ingredient.