Full breakfast
The full English breakfast ( "full breakfast" ) is a multi-course meal:
- Fruit juice, grapefruit or similar.
- Cereals
- Main course with various cooked items
- Tea with milk, toast, citrus marmalade
Countless variations are common. Depending on the region it is also called English, Scottish, etc., or cooked breakfast.
Full English breakfast
As someone said, he detest the food in England, Somerset Maugham replied: "Nonsense! All one has to do is eat breakfast three times a day. "
The beginning of a complete breakfast is usually a fruit juice ( orange juice) or half a grapefruit, for which there are special, one-sided serrated spoon. Also prunes ( prunes ) in juice or compote ( stewed fruit ) are possible. Then follows a cereal (usually similar cornflakes, now rare porridge - porridge - for adults usually unsweetened).
The main course of the full breakfast or hot breakfast consists of ingredients such as fried bacon, small, also fried sausages, fried or scrambled eggs and often grilled tomatoes and fried mushrooms, sometimes into slices. Become Rarely are roasted lamb or Schweinsnierchen. All ingredients are served together on a plate. There For seasoning Brown Sauce, available in bottles of a spicy and sour brown sauce with the consistency of tomato ketchup. Also, mustard and ketchup are popular as additives.
From the USA Come baked beans ( warm white beans in tomato sauce, usually from a can ) and so-called hash browns ( potato dish similar to hash browns, as dehydrated semi-finished product in a box as well as frozen finished product on the market) are in the last few decades has also become common. In some areas, such as Yorkshire and Lancashire, part of the English breakfast and black pudding, sliced and fried in slices of black pudding. White pudding without the blood, pork and fat, suet, bread and oatmeal, however, is found mainly in Ireland, but also in Scotland. Instead of breakfast bacon, the rashers of bacon, are Kippers, which are salted kippers, or Cod ( cod ) occasionally part of an English breakfast.
Is accompanied breakfast of toast and usually, but now not at all more generally, of black tea, which is usually drunk with milk, if it is the flavored Earl Grey is not, however, is not regarded as the breakfast tea. In addition to the obligatory toast is sometimes served fried bread that is in the pan toasted bread, toast in egg as French. The conclusion of the breakfast form another cup of tea and toast with salted butter and marmalade from oranges, lemons or limes. Marmalade is available in different versions, with much or little shell, bitter - sweet ( " Olde English Thick Cut Marmalade" ), sour or sweet. Jams ( jam ) shall be regarded in the social etiquette conscious middle class as a breach of English breakfast tradition.
Tea and coffee
The fact that the tradition is not so very old, however, that eg coffee for breakfast before the 20th century was at least as common as tea, can be seen from reports of travelers. Theodor Fontane portrays about a Sunday breakfast of a wealthy merchant family in the mid- 19th century:
" After Barred morning worship is all gathered at breakfast: coffee and tea, mutton and eggs, bacon slices and toasted white bread make the rounds, and eating and drinking, talking and laughter goes a full breakfast round. "
Another describes the everyday work:
" ... After a short pause, in which breakfast - coffee and white bread -. Piece is removed, continue until the lunch hour by 12 clock "
Compared to coffee defeated even the porridge with regard to popularity: When you are in a British working colony " the usual morning beverage replaced by gruel, rebelled people and presented, as they managed not help, mostly the work of one. " Gradual change of the Britons from a nation of coffee drinkers to tea drinking nation had already begun in the 18th century: Was England in 1700 still one of the largest coffee consumer in the world, the imported half times more coffee than tea, it was 1750 already seven times more tea than coffee.
In the 20th century, however, almost only tea was drunk to the 1960s for breakfast. For the UK market produces special leaf mixtures from Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique will be processed in the first place, from the traditional Teeländern.
Basically, this black tea - when the perfumed with bergamot oil Earl Grey is not - drunk with milk, the question of whether one pours the tea to the milk, or vice versa, the entire Empire into supporters of MIF ( Milk- In-First ) - or TIF ( Tea -In-First ) fraction splits, the latter a majority of members of the higher social circles ( "upper middle" and " upper class "). The once called " continental" Quirk ridiculed teabag is now also become an everyday sight in Britain: There is no time and is convenient, therefore, has the tea bag - with more content than in continental Europe - and increasingly enforced. Convenience and time savings, however, were also reasons for the increase of coffee consumption in Britain.
The reversal from tea to coffee sat in the last third of the 20th century, however, among the intellectuals, which drank soon more coffee than tea, and took only with the popularization of instant coffee ( Maxwell House, Nescafe, etc.), the working people, so that at the end of the 20th century Instant coffee 90 % of the UK coffee market was formed.
Simpler version
A simpler version of Full English Breakfast without the warm main course is often referred to as a Continental Breakfast. These include fruit juice, tea or coffee, toast, butter, jams ( both marmalade and jam, not just citrus jam), honey and a variety of cereals ( corn flakes, muesli, etc.)
Fruit and Herbal Teas ( " infusion " ) are in the UK rarely consumed. Coffee, however, has gained much especially as Instant coffee in recent years, also at breakfast in popularity. It is said that in this form of coffee have been back to more UK households, the breakfast drink as forms of tea, as in general the traditional multi-course Cooked Breakfast is now often prepared only on weekends. Good hotel restaurants offer daily, however still far more than that