{"id":2609,"slug":"ploughman-s-lunch","title":"Ploughman's Lunch","description":"The ploughman's lunch is traditional British pub fare, a hearty cold meal featuring bread, cheese and pickle. Its history is not actually that old, and doesn't really date back to actual ploughmen—see Wikipedia on Ploughman's lunch.","ingredients_raw":["1 big chunk of good English cheese (e.g. Cheshire, Stilton, Lancashire), or a selection of 2–3 types of cheese if available","1 big doorstop of granary bread","Butter","Pickle (e.g. Branston pickle, or a good chunky local pickle)","Lettuce leaves","½ apple (optional)","Pickled onions (optional)","Cocktail pork pie (optional)","Sausage rolls (optional)"],"ingredients_norm":["chunk of good english cheese or selection of 2–3 types of cheese if available","doorstop of granary bread","butter","pickle","lettuce leaf","apple","pickled onion","cocktail pork pie","sausage roll"],"steps":["Arrange all ingredients on a plate."],"categories":["Salad recipes","British recipes","Recipes using apple","Recipes using butter","Recipes using cheese","Recipes using bread","Recipes using lettuce"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":5,"servings":"1","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"very easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Ploughman's_Lunch","source_ref":"4511385","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Ploughman's_Lunch&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"15fdda0c5ebcd68bb811a72e1ef3f267369fd4f28a52926c050a8fc7b08898ac","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:15Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/ploughman-s-lunch"}