I'm English, a little fact for you😉 many many years ago mince pies were real meat but they went rotten so quickly due to no refrigerators etc and then when we started trading further to the far east etc. The British discovered dried fruit and spices that kept within edible conditions. There you go😉 Like fish and chips, the fish had a batter added on to it so it would cook inside and not fall apart. It created like a mini oven kind of film. Now days its perfected and we eat the batter, back then it wouldnt taste good and it was just so the fish stayed together to eat.👌
We have pasties on Christmas eve to save room for lunch the next day; but then again, I'm in the Cornish end of Devon. Down here we usually have clotted cream on mince pies, and I've never heard of cheese on Christmas cake. Christmas cake is usually wrapped in marzipan and icing.
Cheese and fruit cake is a northern thing, that's probably doesn't happen much below the North Midlands, but I'd suggest that you try it with a good red Leicester cheese as well as cheddar also try with a vintage cheddar. Christmas cake is traditionally a rich fruit cake, which has more fruit, spice and mixed peel. Again traditionally mincemeat did have meat in it. If you Google the history of mincemeat. You'll see why.
Love those kinds of cheeses, so I must try! And thank you for being kind to me about the mincemeat and cheese thing. I've been getting a lot of flack on here -_-
I’m a Northern and in my 40s and never heard of cheese on a Christmas cake ever?? Until I came on here. We pour brandy over it set it on fire then pour on brandy sauce.Im still not keen on mince pies I will eat a bit of one as wouldn’t be Christmas without it.
I'm from Manchester mate, never heard of that though, i know fruit and cheese works, grapes and apple, Branston Pickle or brie and cranberry but not heard of that one, Merry Christmas
@@pollywaffle79 leeds here, maybe it's just a Yorkshire thing but give it a try ( less cheese than in this vid though ) happy Christmas to you too mate
Have you ever tried Terrys Chocolate Orange? It comes in milk or dark chocolate and, in our house, symbolises Christmas. Orange and chocolate go so well together (also ch. and mint, ch. and ginger and even ch. and chilli, I know, just trust me there). Go on, give yourself a treat!
Only northerners eat fruitcake with cheese. They eat apple pie with it too. Christmas cake has marzipan and royal icing. Cookies are eaten all year round in the uk. We do eat gingerbread men at Christmas. Celebrations doesn’t have Dove but has galaxy .
Sorry Jess, we do NOT eat cheese with fruitcake. They do occasionally have cheese with fruitcake in Yorkshire, but NEVER with Christmas cake. The cake you have is a plain fruitcake, NOT a Christmas cake. Christmas cake is much darker, denser, and has a marzipan coating, and also icing. We don't eat biscuits at Christmas, we eat them all the year round, usually with a cup of tea. Mince pies are nice with brandy butter, and a glass of sherry
Thee Mars Bar in the UK is the same as a Milky Way in the states. When Mars first made the American Milky Way (the UK have their own) they distributed it everywhere else as a Mars Bar, so you can get them in the USA.
You title it British, then you say you like English food. Britain is more than just England you know. What about Wales and Scotland? Every American seems to think the UK or British means just England.
Give me a break, dude. I titled it "British" because that's what people search for on the internet over "English". I'm fully aware that Britain isn't just England. Married to a Englishman after all :)
I find that really silly. Scottish people used to call Britain England. It was an interchangeable term for hundreds of years. Didn't matter it wasn't technically correct. Nobody cared.
I've just discovered your channel. I enjoyed your taste tests. Cheese definitely works on Christmas cake. Do you live in England or the USA? New sub here.
I'm so happy you enjoy them and agree that cheese DOES work on Christmas cake ;) I am American and my husband is English and we live in Riga, Latvia right now.
One minor error, in Yorkshire we have Wensleydale cheese with our fruit cake or Yorkshire tea bread, also known as Brack or plumbread. The name plumbread is a little bit misleading as it doesn't have any plums in it, it means that the fruit in the bread has been soaked in cold tea to plump it up and make the finished cake/bread nice and moist. This is the same as the brandy in the Christmas cake.
@@jschro124 You are correct but it is Mince Meat not Minced Meat. Maybe the were Minced Meat back in the 12th century when real meat was used. I have heard of cheese with Christmas cake and although my mum used to make a very large each year (our Boxer dog actually nibbled it whilst it was cooling one year and had cake until March!) ) I have never tried it myself.
Never ever had cheese with fruitcake. Sounds disgusting, but no less disgusting than bacon and maple syrup! Northerners do very odd things. Cheese and cake. Brexit. Madness.
@@jschro124 Paldies, I've been learning a bit Latvian and met 3 Latvians in England, they were all shocked and all said they'd never met an Englishman who speaks Latvian
The homemade stuff is great but oh boy, the store bought stuff is truly grim. Same with most Christmas puddings. It’s why even many Brits don’t like it.
@@jschro124 It is definitely a Yorkshire tradition, though not a universal tradition even here; (my wife has lived in the same Yorkshire city as I do, all her life, but had never heard of the idea until she met me and my family introduced her to it. None of us in our family are particularly fond of sugar icing nor marzipan, so we have our cakes at Christmas without either but still have a slice of cheese on Genoa cake, Dundee Cake or Rich fruit cake. We always have the latter spread with butter first, then with a nice slice of Wensleydale on top.
xmas cake isnt a UK version of fruit cake lol, its different ,i know what u was trying to say though, i mean fruit cake existed thousands of yeas before usa was even founded and UK had it many generation before usa was founded too
