Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | Philosopher’s Stone | JK Rowling (Food Reference List)
Last Updated on March 10, 2019
*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
