Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | Philosopher’s Stone | JK Rowling (Food Reference List)

*note that the following food mentioned comes from the US edition, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The original/ UK version is called Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and has other alternative food names, for example sherbet lemons instead of lemon drops. 

cereal

bun

large doughnut

“Would you care for a lemon drop?”

– Dumbledore to Professor McGonagall

bacon

fried eggs

chocolate ice cream

lemon ice pop

knickerbocker glory: An ice cream sundae served in a tall glass usually with layers of ice cream, fruit, cream, jell-o/gelatin and possibly meringue and alcohol (for the adults!)

brandy

chocolate cake

fruitcake: a usually dense cake filled with spices, candied fruits and dried nuts, all soaked in a spirit (commonly rum or brandy)

cornflakes

cold tinned tomatoes on toast

chips

bananas

‘From an inside pocket of his black overcoat he pulled a slightly squashed box. Harry opened it with trembling fingers. Inside was a large, sticky chocolate cake with Happy Birthday Harry written on it in green icing.”

– the cake Hagrid gives Harry for his 11th birthday

‘and a bottle of amber liquid that he took a swig from before starting to make tea.”

– one of the things Hagrid pulls from his pocket

tea

sausages

peppermint humbugs: a hard boiled peppermint flavoured sweet/ candy

sherry

chocolate and raspberry with chopped nuts ice cream: I can only guess this came from Florean Fortescue’s Ice Cream Parlour

hamburger

corned beef sandwiches

Mars Bars: mentioned but not actually available

visit my recipe for Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans

Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans (in flavours such as toast, coconut, baked bean, strawberry, curry, grass, coffee, sardine, pepper, chocolate, peppermint, marmalade, spinach, tripe, booger. Vomit and earwax are mentioned later in the book)

Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum (you can find the recipe for Drooble’s here)

Chocolate Frogs

Pumpkin Pasties/Pasty (try this delicious pumpkin pasty recipe)

Cauldron Cakes (while not what I actually imagine cauldron cakes to be, I thought it would be cute to make these little pots that looked like cauldrons filled with cake)

Licorice Wands (not for the faint of heart, but I was determined to make licorice wands look authentic. Plus I’ve included free printable packaging)

-food from the Hogwarts Express trolley

“He had never seen so many thing he liked to eat on one table: roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops and lamb chops, sausages, bacon and steak, boiled potatoes, roast potatoes, fries, Yorkshire pudding, peas, carrots, gravy, ketchup, and for some strange reason, peppermint humbugs.”

“Blocks of ice cream in every flavour you could think of, apple pies, treacle tarts, chocolate eclairs and jam doughnuts, trifle, strawberries, Jell-O, rice pudding—“

 -food from their first feast at Hogwarts

meringue: a baked dessert made from whipped egg whites and white sugar

porridge with sugar

toast

marmalade: a fruit perserve usually spread on toast, made from the juice and peel of citrus fruit. Orange marmalade is quite common.

“The rock cakes were shapeless lumps with raisins that almost broke their teeth…” – tea at Hagrid’s

steak and kidney pie: a savoury pie eaten as dinner– well known in the UK

baked pumpkin

sausages with ketchup

‘They sat by the hour eating anything they could spear on a toasting fork — bread, English muffins, marshmallows” – holidays at Hogwarts

homemade fudge – a gift from Mrs. Weasley for Christmas

A hundred fat, roast turkeys

roast and boiled potatoes

chipolatas: a type of sausage

buttered peas

thick, rich gravy: a sauce made from the juices leftover from roasted meat

cranberry sauce

flaming Christmas puddings

wine

-Christmas feast at Hogwarts

turkey sandwiches

crumpets

trifle

Christmas cake

stoat sandwiches: a stoat is a short-tailed weasel.

peas

nettle wine