Salt shaker

Salt cellar (or, less commonly, salt shaker)

Sandwich,
chicken salad

A chicken salad sandwich in England means a sandwich made with chicken meat and salad ingredients (e.g., cress; cucumber; tomato). The sandwich Americans understand as chicken salad (i.e., with a filling of chopped chicken, celery and walnuts, in a mayonnaise base), I've not seen in England. To make an American chicken salad sandwich, see the recipe on 
page 145.

Sausage, bulk pork

Sausage meat
For more information, see the Bulk pork sausage entry in the Pork section on page 82.

Scallions

Spring onions or salad onions

Scampi

Scampi or Dublin Bay prawn
Scampi are about 4" (10cm) long and unlike other prawns, have claws.

Scotch

Whisky
In England, whisky refers to scotch whisky. If you want a different type of whisky, you must specify the type.

Sell by date

Display until date
Products must be sold prior to their 'sell by' or Display until date, and should be consumed before their Best before end or BBE date.

Seltzer

Fizzy water or sparkling water or carbonated water

Sheet cake

See Cake, sheet this section.

Sherbet

Sorbet is very similar to US sherbet. In England, sherbet often refers to a powdered candy, similar to Lik 'm Ade in America.

Shortening

White sunflower vegetable fat, White Flora, and Trex are all similar to American shortening. Alternatively, you may use either Cookeen or soft vegetable lard (though contrary to what its name implies, it isn't very soft). 'Shortening' can mean any kind of fat or oil used in pastry making but in the US, it has come to mean a specific type of fat: a soft, white, vegetable fat (e.g., 'Crisco'). It is normally sold in round cardboard tubs and stocked with the dry baking goods while in England it is sold in 500g boxes and stocked in the refrigerated section of the supermarket.