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).

Toad You are quite right. It's South African tea (my favourite) and I find it hard to drink conventional Indian tea now. It's so light in tea flavour.

While we're on the subject of tea, when one is you are offered a cup of tea on an Indian or Sri Lankan tea plantation, milk is never put into it.

Nigella Black tea is a centuries old English tradition even if it's not produced here.

Nigellas

Yep. Black tea is completely English. None of that foreign rooibos muck.

I will admit, however, that one of the best breakfasts I ever had was in South Africa. Four courses, including boerewors.

makes note to self to buy some Rooibos today

I might have had some rooibos that day

I hate you all. up since 7, NOTHING to bloody eat yet, only biscuits available, dp back at 2pm - both assistants on hols - sould have stopped one going, shouldn't I

I'm happiest with:

2 sausages
Fried egg
Mushrooms
Baked beans or Tinned whole tomatoes (not both, either is good)
2 Hash browns
Fried slice.
Large mug of tea
Orange juice

No bacon for me, and I'm usually a bit disappointed if the fried bread isn't available and I have to have toast instead. I can take or leave black pudding.

bacon
egg
sausage
tomatoes
mushrooms
toast, white, dry, to put the egg on
glass of orange juice
pot of tea

extras can include black pudding, baked beans and hash browns

I normally have potato scones (made by myself the evening before), but if I have a fried slice, it has to be fried in the bacon grease.

Fried eggs are really best done in the fat left in the chip pan after the chips have been taken out. Deep fat cooks the egg all round, makes the edges crisp and leaves the yolk just perfectly cooked but still runny. Perfect on fried bread (I don't have the chips now).

One can do it in a frying pan with lots of oil / lard / dripping / bacon fat / sausage fat if you want that disgusting muck but you need enough to cover the egg.

A cafe near me does lovely Kedgeree - could curry for breakfast ever be wrong.

I prefer toast to fried bread. Well more accurately, I like fried bread but it doesn't like me!

Who mentioned grilling? It's not a full English if you use the grill, most of it has to be done in a single frying pan with a second non frying pan for mushrooms/tinned tomatoes or scrambled egg.

Kippers are a suitable breakfast, but not full English.

I have

Cripsy bacon, so crispy it crumbles
Fried eggs
Hashbowns
Maple Syrup

:)

But I guess that's more Canadian than English

I always grill.

Bacon, sausage, black pudding (for DH not so keen myself), beans, either tomatoes or mushrooms and am flexible about eggs. I like a nice poached egg myself.

Definitely no sauces with that in our house.

Orange Juice. Tea (me and DD) Coffee (DH)

Toast and marmalade

I like beans with mine but they are not a part of the traditional breakfast ...

I'm from northern ireland my perfect fry is
bacon
sausages
potato bread
soda bread
black pudding
white pudding
fried egg
mushrooms
tomatoes
and a massive mug of strong tea !

Shocked that muffins haven't featured heavily yet. I haven't a clue if they're meant to be part of a traditional EB, but I love them!

For me- bacon, streaky bacon is the best.
Sausages. Two is the minimum.
Black pudding.
Mushrooms.
White toast AND a slice of fried white bread.
Fried egg.
Hash browns.
A big cup of tea.
Orange juice.

I suppose technically tomatoes are meant to be involved, but I don't like cooked tomatoes.

My perfect cooked breakfast consists of

Sausages
Rashers
Fried egg
Black pudding
White pudding
Perhaps some mushrooms
Loads of toast

NO BEANS EVER YOU FREAKS

Where is tea grown in England then?

I did stress that it was my breakfast... and I'm English, so there!

I don't like black tea.

My Sri Lankan MIL puts hot milk in tea. Always has. Made from milk powder. That's how they serves it when we went to her plantation. Bleugh
Breakfast for me is ....
Smoked back bacon (crispyish) and a whole tin of good quality tomatoes poured over the top with copious slices of cheap white bread and real butter to mop the juice up. Needs to be in a pasta bowl and sometimes microwaved half way through to keep the toms hot.
Not traditional English though.

The thought of orange juice with a full English makes me feel queasy. It's too acidic.

black pudding what on earth is WHITE pudding??

My ideal Scottish breakfast,which would actually be served at lunch would include...

Lorne sausage
Black pudding. I'm fussy about my black pudding though. Getting a relly good one can be tough.
A slice of haggis.
Crispy bacon.
Fried egg
Potato scone
And lots of mushrooms. Never tinned.

If I have baked beans I like them on the side.

I hate tomatoes,so no tomatoes,but tinned tomatoes are even more wrong.

I'm not too fussed about toast,but half a slice of wholemeal would be welcome. I hate fried bread.

Accompanied by tea at home,or a flat white when out,and a cup of orange juice,with bits.

I've never had muffins. I don't know of anyone who eats them here,though someone must do,as I've seen them in supermarkets. I think they're more popular in the U.S.