UK/USA Food Equivalents

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UK
USA
 aubergine
eggplant
 baking tray
baking sheet
 bangers
sausages
 beetroot
beet
 bicarbonate of soda
baking soda
 biscuits
cookies
 broad beans
fava beans
 cake tin
cake/ baking pan
 capsicums
sweet or bell peppers
 castor sugar
Sugar, superfine
 celery stick
celery rib
 chips
French-fried potatoes
 chuck steak
round steak/stewing beef
 coriander, fresh
cilantro
 cornflour
cornstarch
 courgette
zucchini
 crisps
potato chips
 desiccated coconut
Unsweetened desiccated/ shredded coconut
 digestive biscuits/
graham crackers
 double cream
cream, heavy
 dripping
fat from roasted meat
 essence
extract (vanilla, etc.)
 fish slice
spatula
 forcemeat
stuffing mix for meat or fish
 frying pan
skillet
 gammon
ham
 glacé fruits
candied fruit
 golden syrup
light molasses
 Greaseproof/Parchment paper
wax paper
 hand of pork
pork shoulder roast

hard-boiled eggs
hard-cooked eggs
 heaped spoonful
heaping spoonful
hull
shuck
 icing sugar
confectioners'/powdered sugar
 joint
large cut of meat to roast
 ketchup/tomato sauce
catsup
 king prawns
jumbo shrimp
 Margarine/Butter/Lard
shortening
 minced meats
ground meats
 offal
variety meats (liver, kidney etc)
 paw paw
papaya
 pig's trotter
pig's foot
 plain flour
all-purpose flour
 pork fat
fatback
 prawns
shrimp
 rasher
slice
 semolina
farina
 sieve
strain; strainer
 sift
strain
 silverside
beef cut from the rump
 single cream
cream, light, half-and-half
 skirt steak
flank steak
 spring or salad onions
scallions, green onions
 stock cubes
bouillon cube
 strong flour
bread flour
 Sultanas
raisins/ seedless, golden
 tomato Ketchup
tomato catsup
 Treacle
dark molasses
 vanilla pod
vanilla bean

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