Sunday, August 5, 2012

What Is a Full English Breakfast?

Breakfast is the first meal consumed after fasting an entire night. A nutritious breakfast will keep the hunger pangs away during the day. Small lunches and light dinners are enough to help you get through a full working day. Traditionally in Britain and Ireland, a full English breakfast was popular. Today the importance of a full breakfast has taken a step back. Life has become so fast and quick that eating a good breakfast is a luxury these days. It is now eaten only on weekends, holidays and vacations. It is unclear about the origin of the English breakfast. However, it is believed to have originated in rural England. It was a sustaining meal for workers to help them through a long morning of hard labor.

Menu of the breakfast

An English breakfast generally begins with orange juice, cereals and fruits. But the heart of the English breakfast is bacon and eggs. Breakfast is incomplete without them. Sausages, devilled kidneys, porridge, kippers, mushrooms, toast and marmalade and grilled tomatoes are some of its accompaniments. Breakfast is then rounded off with a good cup of tea.

The choice of accompaniments in each county of the United Kingdom can be different. While the breakfast may include fried bread, black pudding and baked beans, the Scottish may include potato scones and oat cakes. The Irish will substitute with white pudding and soda bread. The Welsh prefer the laver bread or laver cakes. They are a combination of seaweed and oatmeal.

Cooking and eating the English breakfast

The breakfast is cooked fresh, except the tomatoes. Though frying is not a healthy option, grilled food lacks grease and may not have the required moisture. Slowly friend bacon and sausages can really be lip smacking. Its flavors are not too spiky but are familiar. Though the full breakfast is served with a large mug of tea, these days coffee is also being served.

Since the full breakfast is a rare treat these days, most people enjoy it well cooked, with plenty of moisture. Eggs are an essential item on the menu and no one wants the rubbery poached eggs. The scrambled or fried eggs are preferred. Cooking the fried egg the right way is important.


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