Ploughmans Lunch?

july10, Mar 24, 6:00am
Am having a Ploughmans Lunch tomorrow night for tea with some English folk - any ideas where do I start??
sossie1, Mar 24, 6:06am
A Ploughmans Lunch for Tea??

A ploughmans lunch is a traditional lunchtime meal, not so much of a meal as a recharge to carry on working the afternoon

bread, cheese, pickles, cold meats essentially, but you can add a slice of pie or something

personally if I them for tea i would make sausage mash and mushy peas.
millna, Mar 24, 6:36am
ploughman lunch for tea..... yum, i also love eggs benedict for tea
july10, Mar 24, 7:07am
haha thanks sossie1 me too. Every Friday night we normally have a fish and chip night with them but we are all done with fish and chips at the moment! Last Fri we had mince pies, peas and mash. They suggested the Ploughmans Lunch and I like them to know I know what i'm talking about lol. Plus our children like to try something dfferent too.
charlieb2, Mar 24, 7:09am
Great idea... What not have a change around...and yep, what sossie said is pretty much the ploughmans we served at the pub I worked in, in London!
davidt4, Mar 24, 7:22am
"Ploughman's Lunch"actually only dates back to the 1960s, when it was invented by an ad agency to encourage sales of British cheese.
cookessentials, Mar 24, 7:22am
Traditional ploughmans lunch consists of thick, crusty bread, a mature cheddar cheese, or you can use Chesire, or Stilton cheese.
Pickled onions, a good pickle ( Branston would be the best)
some big beefy type tomatoes.
Nothing wrong with ploughmans in the evening, so long as it's warm outside.
kuaka, Mar 24, 7:32am
You could add a baked potato in it's jacket with it I guess to fill you up a bit more!
nfh1, Mar 24, 7:40pm
LOL - I would be devastated if someone gave me sausage, mash and mushy peas for dinner - especially if they were those dreadful pre-cooked things!

Ploughmans Lunch is usually something you would have at a Pub in England with regional cheese, dependant upon where you are, pickles, crusty bread and salad together witha pint of beer - never had it at home!
purplegoanna, Mar 25, 7:45am
yum one of my favs..we mix it up abit though....have both brown grainy bread and white loaf on offer (must be loaves that you slice at the table not presliced bread!), butter in a crock, plenty of sliced ham and corned beef, tomatos, sliced red onion, cheeses, boiled eggs, maybe a pork pie (or slices of bacon & egg pie), pickled onions, gerkins, and tomato relish and piccalilli. And lashings of cold beer and ginerbeer for the kids...
duckmoon, Mar 25, 8:43am
and a hard boiled egg...
duckmoon, Mar 25, 8:43am
yum, I am getting hungry just reading this
elliehen, Mar 25, 8:52am
Mention of a Ploughman's Lunch always makes me think of Beatrix Potter's Pigling Bland, running away, with his little stick over his shoulder and the knotted red and white checkered cloth at the end of it containing his bread and cheese :)
july10, Mar 25, 10:21am
Thank you purplegoanna sounds good and sounds easy to do!
sarahb5, Mar 25, 10:30am
Add some apple as well - whenever we had them for pub lunches it was always crusty bread, decent cheese, pickled onions, relish/pickle and maybe some crisps (chippies to you NZers) and an apple to finish with
sarahb5, Mar 25, 10:31am
And there are plenty of other traditional English dinners other than just fish & chips or ploughmans lunch - what about toad in the hole?Welsh rarebit (OK so that's Welsh)?Roast beef and yorkshire pudding?
lindylambchops1, Apr 6, 5:47pm
Don't forget the beer to go with it!
cookessentials, Apr 6, 6:13pm
No, cider for me.There is controvercy about it's origins, however, as far as I am aware it has been around for a long time and was often the fare eaten out in the fields by farm hands/worker who were ploughing the fields.
nauru, Apr 8, 4:06pm
It may have been popularized in the 60's by the cheese board but I'm sure that it has been around a lot longer than that. Farm workers took bread, cheese & pickled onions wrapped in a neckerchief to the fields with them in the 1800's.
uli, Apr 8, 4:07pm
Nothing wrong with eating it by a nice roaring fire either :)
cookessentials, Apr 8, 5:30pm
Yes, you are quite correct
kuaka, Jul 27, 6:02pm
so - how did the ploughman's lunch for tea turn out?