Sentence examples for English dessert from inspiring English sources

This quintessential English dessert is easy to make and benefits from a little time in the fridge to make it easier to take from the mould.

But the standout was the sprightly "Eton mess," a traditional English dessert that incorporates meringue, custard and, in this case, lemon and huckleberry.

A layered melange of sponge cake soaked in drink (sherry, brandy or both), covered with jam, custard and cream, it is the quintessential English dessert.

If the fruit is disappointingly tasteless or just underripe, then the best thing is to make Eton mess, a traditional English dessert that comes from the illustrious educational establishment of that name.

This warm banana cake drizzled with hot toffee sauce is a twist on the classic English dessert, sticky toffee pudding.

A "gooseberry fool" is a classic English dessert in which gooseberries are mixed in fresh whipped cream.

Dinner, served family style at 8 or 8 30, featured good, basic fare that included simple soups and stews and sticky English desserts -- rather like the food you'd find in family hotels in the Poconos.

A delight to eat, every single dish, as were guiltily satisfying versions of sticky toffee pudding and St. Emilion au chocolat, a pair of great English desserts developed by a pair of great English chefs of the 1970's, George Perry-Smith and Francis Coulson. Perry-Smith and Francis Coulson

For cricket matches at either the Oval or Lord's cricket grounds in London, the hotel prepares a picnic basket (a "hamper," in local parlance) including quail scotch eggs, chicken or rabbit pie, fresh lobster, homemade pâtés, and traditional English desserts like gooseberry fool or strawberries and cream.

The one area of the meal that was unmistakably English were the desserts, or "puddings," as they are labeled in the British tradition.

But the queen wouldn't have been referring to the sort of dessert that English speakers often imagine.