farm, food & countryside

pizza

pavlova

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Pizza is not something you readily

Having enjoyed your pizza main course

associate with British agriculture,

why not try some all-British Pavlova as a dessert.

it sounds rather exotic and foreign but it may well be the next pizza you

Egg whites from a Berkshire hen and sugar from Norfolk sugar beet

buy could be made with ingredients entirely sourced from British farms.

will make your base. The topping can comprise some Kentish strawberries,

Wheat from a Suffolk cereal farm to make the pizza base, cheese from a

some Fife raspberries drenched in whipped cream

Cheshire dairy farm, pepperoni from ham from a Wiltshire piggery and juicy

or yoghurt from a Somerset dairy farm.

tomatoes from a Surrey glasshouse. All you need to make a tasty British pizza.

Egg whites

Wheat is

surround the yolk in

harvested and then

a hen's egg. When

ground into flour. Flour is

whisked and baked they

added to water to make

make meringue.

the dough for the pizza

base.

Sugar beet is a root

Cheese is made from

which when sliced and

curdling milk. The cow

boiled makes a sweet

is an ingenious animal

liquor from which sugar

that can turn grass into

is then crystalized.

milk - with a bit of help

from the farmer.

Strawberries and

Tomatoes picked fresh

raspberries. Two of

from the vine then sliced

the best things about

to be put onto the pizza.

a British summer.

Cream is the top of the

Ham, from the pig to

milk. Milk also makes

make that final tasty

yoghurt, the healthier

pizza topping.

alternative.

Did you know every year British farms produce 15 million tonnes of wheat, 366,000 tonnes of cheese,

British farms produce 880 million eggs, 133,000 tonnes of strawberries and raspberries, 1.4 million tonnes

60,000 tonnes of tomatoes and 5 million tonnes of ham - that's enough to make over a billion pizzas.

of sugar and 14.5 billion litres of milk - that's enough to make over a billion Pavlovas.

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