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Haggis is a Scottish dish made from a sheep's or calf's heart, liver, and lungs, minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally boiled in the animal's stomach for several hours.
Haggis is traditionally served at Hogmanay and on Burns' Night.
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Halloumi is a Cypriot, Romanian and Lebanese traditional farmhoise and creamery stretched curd cheese originally made from sheep's or goat's milk, now made from cow's or occasionally from goat's milk.
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Ham is pork leg which has been preserved by salting and drying.
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Hamachi is a sushi dish of yellowtail tuna.
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The hamburger is a fast food consisting of a fried patty of minced meat, usually served in a bread roll. The hamburger (without the bun) is said to have been invented by medieval Tatar invaders of the Baltic area around Hamburg, Germany, from where it takes its name. As a dish made from minced meat, onions, bread, and milk, it was taken to the USA in the 19th century. The hamburger in its present form spread from there and was reintroduced to Europe in the 1960s.
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Hammerhead is a robust, strong, rich, malty ale brewed by Clark's of Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
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Harbourne Blue is a British, modern, farmhouse, vegetarian blue cheese made from un-pasteurised goat's milk by Ticklemore Cheeses in Devon.
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Haricot is a highly seasoned hash of lamb or mutton or other meat, first fried or grilled, and vegetables, principally carrots. The name has also been given to a type of kidney pulse (the haricot bean) which was formerly much used in the dish, and after which the pulse is named.
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Harp Lager is a low strength lager developed by Guinness in 1959 to mark their bicentenary.
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Harrier S.P.A is a light-brown bitter with a light, hoppy taste, from the Cotleigh brewery, Somerset. Harvest Ale Harvest ale is a staggeringly strong bottled ale with 11.5% alcohol is produced each year from the new season' s malt and hops by the Lees brewery in Manchester. This vintage brew can be laid down to mature in the cellar for several years.
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Harvey Wallbanger is a cocktail made from orange juice, vodka and galliano.
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Harveys christmas ale is a strong warming ale produced annually by the Harveys brewery, Lewes, Sussex.
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Harveys Firecracker is a beer that was bottled in honour of the emergency services who fought a disastrous fire at the Harveys brewery in 1996. It is a strong, dark pale ale with a smoky flavour.
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Harveys Sussex best bitter is a golden, hoppy bitter from Harveys of Lewes.
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Harveys Sussex pale ale is a light, hoppy ale from the Harveys brewery.
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Harveys Tom Paine is a strong pale ale from Harveys brewery.
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Hasenpfeffer is a highly seasoned hare stew.
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Hash is a dish of cooked meat or vegetable, diced or chopped small, and reheated in a sauce.
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Hasty-pudding was an old English pudding or thick batter of flour and milk boiled together. In the USA the name was given to a batter of Indian meal stirred into boiling water.
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Hatters is a fine, light mild from the Robinson's brewery, Stockport.
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Havarti is a Danish, traditional creamery semi-soft cheese made from cow's milk.
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Heads A Rolling is a medium strength ale brewed by the Ash Vine company. It is a pale beer with a powerful hop flavour.
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Headstrong is a fruity bitter from the Blackawton brewery in Devon.
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Hefe is a German term for unfiltered beer.
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Henriettes are a French, sweet fried batter biscuit made from eggs, cream, brandy, flour and seasoned with cinammon.
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Hereford Hop is a British, traditional, farmhouse, vegetarian natural-rind cheese made from cow's milk and hops in Gloucestershire. Hereford Hop had disappeared until in 1988, Charles Martell revived it from an archived recipe.
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Heritage is a full-bodied beer with a roast malt, fruity flavour from the Smiles brewery, Bristol.
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Hermelin is a Czech Camembert-style soft cheese made as a copy of Camembert.
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Herrgardost is a Swedish, traditional, creamery semi-hard natural-rind cheese made from cow's milk. Herrgardost was invented around the start of the 20th century as a copy of Gruyere.
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Herriot Farmhouse is a British, modern, farmhouse, vegetarian hard cheese based on a 19th century recipe and made from sheep's milk in North Yorkshire.
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Hersbrucker Weizenhier is a light wheat beer from the Springhead brewery, Nottinghamshire.
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Herve is a Belgian, traditional, farmhouse and creamery washed-rind soft cheese made from cow's milk, often incorporating herbs, and ripened in a beer-soaked cloth.
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Hessian soup is a soup made from ox's head, split peas, carrots, turnips, potatoes and onions and flavoured with mixed herbs and spices including cloves.
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Hick's special draught also known as HSD, is a full-bodied, fruity cask bitter produced by the St Austell brewery, Cornwall.
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High Force is a complex, smooth beer with a sweet, malt flavour, from the Butterknowle brewery in Bishop Auckland.
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High Level is a sweet and fruity, bright, filtered brown ale brewed for the working men's clubs by the Federation Brewery in the north-east of England. It is named after the bridge in Newcastle which crosses the River Tyne.
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High tea was formerly the meal served with cold meats, vegetables, and pastry in substitution for dinner. In 1893 the Daily Telegraph carried a description of a high tea thus:
A well understood 'high tea' should have cold roast beef at the top of the table, a cold Yorkshire pie at the bottom, a mighty ham in the middle. The side dishes will comprise soused mackerel, pickled salmon (in due season), sausages, potatoes etc, etc. Rivers of tea, coffee and ale with dry and buttered toast, sally-lunns, scones, muffins and crumpets, jams and marmalade.
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A highball is a long drink of diluted spirits. Usually it is whiskey and ice in a tumbler, filled up with soda water, but there are also brandy, gin, vodka and rum highballs.
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Highgate Dark Mild is a dark-brown, smooth mild produced in the Victorian tower brewery in Walsall, West Midlands. It is fermented using a vigorous four-strain yeast to give a complex flavour.
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Highgate Old Ale is a dark, red-brown, fruity ale with a complex flavour, brewed in winter by the Walsall brewery.
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Hipi Iti is a New Zealand, modern creamery vegetarian fresh cheese made from sheep's milk since 1990.
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Hippocras is a cordial made of Lisbon and Canary wines, bruised spices and sugar and served through a strainer.
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Hirame is a sushi dish of halibut.
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Hobgoblin is a robust red ale sold in the cask and in the bottle in Britain, Europe and North America. It is produced by the Wychwood brewery, Oxfordshire.
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Hock is a class of light white Rhine wine. It possesses a distinct flavour, bouquet and delicacy of its own.
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Hodge-Podge is a soup made from stewing beef, table beer, onions, carrots, turnip, celery, butter and thickened with flour.
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Hole in One is a strong golden ale from the Ash Vine brewery at Frome in Somerset.
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Hollandaise sauce is a sauce made from egg yolks, butter and wine vinegar usually served with fish or vegetables.
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Holt's Bitter is a dry bitter brewed by the Holt's brewery of Manchester.
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Honey is a sweet syrup made by bees from nectar.
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Hopping-John is a stew of rice with peas or bacon, eaten in the West Indies and southern USA.
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Hot cross buns are small, spiced, fruit cakes or buns decorated with a cross on top and traditionally served on Good Friday. The practice originated with the ancient Greeks who offered the cakes to Apollo, Diana, Hecate and the moon, the cross symbolising the four quarters of the moon.
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Hotch Potch is a broth made from mutton, cauliflower, lettuce, peas and beans.
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Howtowdie is a Scottish dish of boiled chicken with poached eggs and spinach.
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Gales HSB (Horndean Special Bitter) was a strong cask conditioned real-ale brewed by George Gales & Co of Horndean, Hampshire, first brewed in 1959 until the closure of the brewery in 2005.
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Hubbardston Blue Cow is an American modern farmhouse natural rind fresh cheese made from cow's milk.
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A humbug is a usually striped, boiled sweet with a chewy centre and peppermint flavoured.
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Hungary Water was an alcoholic liqueur distilled from wine mixed with rosemary flowers. It was so named after first being prepared for use by a queen of Hungary, and was popular around the 18th century as a lotion and restorative.
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Hushallsost is a Swedish, traditional, creamery, semi-soft natural-rind cheese made from whole cow's milk.
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Hwa Jwen are Chinese sweet, steamed bread buns popular as a snack food.
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