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).

I´d say it´s sliced bread toast and butter, eggs, back bacon, an English sausage, black pudding, fried bread, tomatoes, mushrooms and baked beans, with a cup or pot of tea.

And the bacon,sausage etc should be grilled,not fried.

The fruit pudding.... Is that Christmas pudding?

Fried eggs
Back bacon
Square sausage
Potatoe scone
Fried mushrooms
Toast and jam

Tea and oj

Ssort of its not cakey though its has rasins currants and wheat and suet I think in it rolled like a black pudding

My English breakfast comprises of:

Bacon
Sausages
Fried egg
Fried bread with tinned tomato and black pepper
Mushrooms
Black pudding, crispy

I like to go to the Toby Carvery for their breakfast as they do this delicious potato/gammon/cheese/onion hash thing.

Buttered toast
Scrambled eggs
Bacon
Sausage
Hash browns
Mushrooms
Strong tea

Yum.

Surely a full English includes the option of having kedgeree, kippers and devilled kidneys.

My full English has:
Fried Eggs
Sausage
Bacon
plum tomatoes
hash browns
fried bread
No mushrooms for us, but will put them on for guests that like them.
I don't like bacon or plum tomatoes, so I need the hash browns to replace those.

knew I should've resisted the urge to open this thread. I absolutely now need a full English brekkie.

English brekkie has baked beans. I've never seen them in a cooked American brekkie. They're more usually served in barbeque joints alongside ribs or brisket.

Don't even suggest that baked beans for breakfast is American. We are strictly "baked beans and hot dogs for supper" type of people. I just about fell over the first time I had a full English here and there were beans on the plate. Now, of course, I love it.

The basic full English breakfast is the fry up. Kedgeree / kippers / smoked salmon do not constitute the traditional English Breakfast however desirable they might be.

I've only ever been offered kedgeree and kippers for breakfast when I've gone back in time to the 1930's.

English is an adjective in this context, so most of us would say "full English breakfast" as without the last word we wince and recoil....... our appetite truly ruined.

Our local garage does a fantastic breakfast roll that DH and I have been known to treat ourselves to on occasion.

It consists of two sausages, two rashers (bacon to you lot!), two hash browns, black pudding, white pudding, fried onions, fried mushrooms and ketchup piled into a fresh demi baguette, with a freshly fried egg perched on top.

It is absolutely delicious and would be all the better for a portion of chips on the side.

Bacon
Sausage
Fried egg (only the white which is best when it's frilly, give the yolk to DP, my sister or my dad)
Black pudding
Tattie scone
Hot toast with butter

Love a cooked breakfast !
Ours vary but normally are ....

Dry cured crisp bacon
Proper butchers sausage
Fried burford brown eggs
Wholemeal toast with real butter
Heinz beans
Cirio tomatoes( hate others!!)
Mushrooms
Maybe black pudding
Washed down with a Massive real coffee !

I'm very fussy about what goes next to each other on my plate .... Not sure if anyone else is as I've not got through all the posts yet .

Also love
Cheese on toast with cirio tomatoes & poached eggs.... Sometimes bacon, Not traditional but gorgeous !!

Ulster fry here:

Soda Bread
Potato Bread
Pancake
Fried Egg
Sausage
Bacon
Grilled tomato
Beans
Vegetable Roll
Black Pudding
Tea

Otherwise know as "heart attack on a plate" but DELICIOUS!

Americans may have invented baked beans but we do not eat them for breakfast. Every time I see something on here disparaging American cuisine, I think to myself, but you eat beans for breakfast.

What's a vegetable roll bruthas?

BruthasTortoise Lovely description of a full English breakfast - 'heart attack on a plate'. Of course, it must have been originally for those who left home early to do a full day's hard physical work so needed the calorie content. Usually farm labourers but it might also have been for workers in manufacturing industries because there was so much physical work then. I love a proper English breakfast (picking what I want from the suggestions above) but, these days, it's another help towards a fat, fat population unless here's some vehement exercise involved.

One thing that irritates me is that a hotel in Frimley (recognise yourself?) cuts the fried bread into quarters of a slice. I want a half slice for each fried egg.....

If half tomatoes are grilled, they are not cooked enough.

Every time I see something on here disparaging American cuisine, I think to myself, but you eat beans for breakfast.

And on soggy toast! Everyone knows beans go in tacos.

Srsly, you guys are making me feel very sad about my bowl of cereal.

We love cooked breakfast and I often serve it as dinner, cunningly disguised as 'High Tea' because dc love it!

I am super fussy though and I like it 'clean' by that I mean all grilled apart from mushrooms and eggs and served nicely, not all flung on top of each other in a greasy mound. We stayed in friends over the summer and it was really lovely that they had us stay etc and the dh cooked his special breakfast next morning and quite honestly I was gagging (hangover after being out the night before did not help) but he fried EVERYTHING in what seemed like 6inches of fat and it was a big soggy greasy mess and I just couldn't face it and I felt very bad....

So for me it is:

M&S smoked dry cure outdoor reared bacon - grilled till crisp
Plain pork sausages (but not super healthy 'meaty' ones) - grilled
White pudding - one brand only ever - grilled till crisp
Black pudding - one brand only - grilled till crisp
Free range eggs slowly fried so they do NOT go frilly on the whites, sunny side up, never turned over
Slices of mushrooms fried in butter and black pepper in a hot pan till crisp
Grilled tomatoes with salt and black pepper and herbs (dh only)
heinz baked beans (dh and dd only)
potato farl grilled and then lightly buttered
fresh plastic white bread toasted with real butter

Fresh coffee and orange juice.

Dh like heinz tomato ketchup or tomato relish with his. dd and I do not.

Ours is a slightly more flexible affair - possibly because you can't really do a full English if you don't eat meat!

Veggie sausages
Fried egg yolks (egg white is fried up separately for the cats, bleeuuurrgh)
Occasionally a couple of slices of facon (Quorn bacon)
Any cooked potatoes which might be knocking about the fridge, sliced & fried (or leftover mash made into potato cakes)
Any tomatoes which need using up, sliced & fried
Fried slice
Mushrooms
Beans
Ketchup AND HP

Those tinned refried beans are rather a good addition for a change - the spiciness makes them an excellent hangover cure...

& coffee afterwards.

My mum used to do Cheesey Dips, which are basically eggy bread made with cheese sandwiches. Yum!