Traditional English Pub Style Ploughman's Lunch

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 4 slices crusty bread, thick slices or 2 large crusty bread rolls or 1/2 baguette
• 1 -2 ounce fresh butter
• 8 ounces mature farmhouse cheddar cheese or 8 ounces stilton cheese or 8 ounces wensleydale cheese or 8 ounces cheshire cheese or 8 ounces lancashire cheese or 8 ounces double gloucester cheese or 8 ounces red leicester cheese
• 4 large pickled onions
• 4 tablespoons chutney (such as, branston pickle, pan yan pickle or ploughman's pickle) or 4 tablespoons pickles (such as, branston pickle, pan yan pickle or ploughman's pickle)
• 2 tomatoes
• 4 spring onions
• salt
• pepper

Recipe

• 1 arrange the buttered bread on a large platter or plate; you can also leave the bread unbuttered, and place a pat of butter on the side instead.
• 2 cut 4 ozs of cheese per person, it is nice to have a choice of two cheese, such as 2 ozs cheddar and 2 ozs stilton - arrange these on the same platter/plate.
• 3 put the pickled onions and chutney or pickles on the side of the plate, along with a fresh tomato left whole and the spring onions.
• 4 make sure there is salt and pepper available, as well as some good real ale or cider!
• 5 enjoy!