English breakfast

[HappyAgainOneDay]

The bacon sandwich thread started me thinking.

One poster mentioned the full English breakfast. What do you think this comprises? I do not think it includes baked beans or hash browns because they are an American introduction. For me a full English is fried egg, crisp bacon, sausage, tomatoes, mushrooms and possibly some fried slices of leftover boiled potato or what we call scrubble and beak (use your brain for that one).

Scottish breakfast*

Eggs - probably fried but scrambled is acceptable
Bacon x 2
Sausage x1
Mushrooms and baked beans a bit radical and on the periphery of traditional, but I will accept! Ditto hash browns.
Fried bread rather than toast. Bread should be fried in the bacon fat, also using dripping from the dripping pot.
Grilled tomato - but my dad who does the best English breakfasts in the whole world always used to use tinned tomato and juice when I was growing up. This was spectacularly tasty when mixed with fried egg yolk on the fried bread.
If north of the border I would expect black pudding too.
Tea or coffee.
Orange juice.

I clarify, I do have a soft spot for hash browns, and put them in bacon sandwiches with ketchup.

Should not have read this thread while heavily pregnant.....off to the kitchen now....

The perfect full Scottish breakfast is:

Links (not lorne, very un Scottish of me I know)
Crispy bacon
Black pudding
Tattie scone (cooked until it's crispy around the edges)
Fried mushrooms
Eggs, either poached or fried
Fruit pudding or haggis (never both together)

Has to have white buttered toast on the side and a big dollop of tomato sauce. For me hash browns aren't an essential part but I'm not going to knock them back if on offer!

My perfect breakfast is slightly Irish.

No eggs (allergic)
Bacon
Sausage
Tomato
Mushrooms
Baked beans
Fried bread
Potato bread
Soda bread
Black pudding
Bucket of tea.

I've taken to adding a fried sliced banana to go with my fry up (no beans, can't stand them). It goes remarkably well but I suspect that many there are many traditionalists that would have a kniption at the thought.

And if I'm feeling lazy healthyish then I stick sausages, tomatoes, bacon (in loose rolls) and eggs (in small buttered pots with a little butter or cream on top) all on a tray in the oven and it comes out perfectly 20 minutes later without the need to standing around doing the cooking so I can Mnet instead - the egg isn't quite as nice as a fried one but it's still perfectly nice and is great for an easy english breakfast.

Anything everyone else has mentioned plusMarmaladefor the toast.

Time for a biscuit Gosh! Sorry but I forgot the fried bread (soft yolk spread on it - a dream). In my eyes, you have it exactly right. Who suggested tinned tomatoes? Tomatoes were fried, too, and I know how to do it properly the way my other fried tomatoes

Anyone remember the greengrocer offering 'frying tomatoes' for sale?

I agree about the black pudding - depending on where you are in the country. I love it fried to a crisp. I also like my bacon to be crisp. I don't see the point of a 'y' on the end of 'crisp'.

Cups of tea, and toast with lots of butter as well.

For me it's bacon, sausages, fried eggs, mushrooms, plum tomatoes, baked beans, white toast and some kind of potato product, depending upon region. I just stayed in a lovely B&B where the cooked breakfast was finished off with a Lincolnshire oatie, like a potato cake coated in oats and fried. It was delicious.

the way my mother fried tomatoes

Oh fruit pudding and fried egg and crispy bacon going to have that at the weekend

I don't know what a "true" English breakfast consists of, but what I enjoy eating is eggs, bacon, mushrooms, sausage, beans, wholemeal toast or pancakes with maple syrup

I've never seen anyone finish it

Really? I could easily eat more than that. In fact a full English at my house consists of more than that!

No kippers?

There have to be kippers.

I've never seen anyone finish it

You haven't seen me eat a full English.

Which is just as well, because the sight would probably put you off breakfast for life.

kedgerree in a chafing dish along with kidneys anyone?

I could finish that I'm sure :-)

Oooh, yes, kidneys. I sometimes have them for a dinner main course in the evening though.

Bacon
Sausage
Egg
Baked beans
Mushrooms
Toast with butter
Pot of tea
Juice

Bacon - it's got to be streaky, not back, as it's much juicier and has more flavour
Eggs - the pan has to be really hot, so that the white goes all bubbly when the eggs are added
Sausage
Tomato - not tinned
Mushrooms
Black pudding - fried until the fat's crisp
Bread fried in the sausage and black pudding fat

There used to be a café near to the Woodside ferry terminal that did the most fantastic toasties. My favourite was sausage, black pudding and mushroom with brown sauce.

I don't mind toast, but I do like to have my eggs on a round of wholemeal bread.

I'll be in the UK next week for the first time in ages and staying in a hotel.....

I was intending to have a slim and save drink for breakfast in my room.

Otoh, might just have a full English on my last morning

My full English...

Grilled smoked dry cure back bacon,
Grilled plain pork sausage,
Two poached eggs,
Mushrooms,
Tinned plum tomatoes (juice must not be allowed to touch the eggs),
Thick white toast (hand cut) with proper butter.

Pot of red bush tea (no milk).
Small glass of orange juice.

If you choose to deviate from my breakfast path of righteousness, on your own stomach be it.

Devilled kidneys.

Rolled in seasoned flour, fried in butter, and finished with reduced chicken stock. Served on toast, preferably with enough paprika to make one's nose run.

Red bush (rooibos) tea is not English at all. Fail.

well nor is black tea is it toad? silly.