Ploughman's Lunch
The ploughman's lunch is traditional British pub fare, a hearty cold meal featuring bread, cheese and pickle. Its history is not actually that old, and doesn't really date back to actual ploughmen—see Wikipedia on Ploughman's lunch.
Source and licence
"Ploughman's Lunch" from the Wikibooks Cookbook (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Ploughman%27s_Lunch, revision 4511385), by its contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Ploughman's_Lunch&action=history), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
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Ingredients
- 1 big chunk of good English cheese (e.g. Cheshire, Stilton, Lancashire), or a selection of 2–3 types of cheese if available
- 1 big doorstop of granary bread
- Butter
- Pickle (e.g. Branston pickle, or a good chunky local pickle)
- Lettuce leaves
- ½ apple (optional)
- Pickled onions (optional)
- Cocktail pork pie (optional)
- Sausage rolls (optional)
Method
- Arrange all ingredients on a plate.