What is served at a full breakfast?
Breakfast may begin with orange juice, cereals, stewed
or fresh fruits but the heart of the Full breakfast is bacon and eggs. They are
variously accompanied by sausages, grilled tomato, mushrooms, tea, toast and
marmalade. Black pudding & white pudding are a traditional extra.
Each country though, also has its own
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A Full English breakfast may have Black Pudding, Baked Beans
and Fried Bread.
A Full Scottish, Potato Scones (Tattie
Scones), Haggis and Oatcakes.
A Full Irish – Black Pudding
& White Pudding and Soda Bread.
A Full Welsh –
Laverbread.
An Ulster Fry is not dissimilar to a Full English
but may also have Irish soda bread and is served again, throughout the day.
Other Popular Dishes for a Traditional Breakfast:
As if all that food isn't enough other dishes which may be
found at a full breakfast are Porridge, Deviled Kidneys, Kedgeree, and
Kippers.
Other names for Breakfast:
Though a ‘Full Breakfast’ is universally known and
understood other terms used include: A Fry Up, A Full Monty, and in Ireland it
is some times known as a Chub. http:// britishfood.about.com/
Various parts of the United Kingdom have their own variants
of the full breakfast, including the full English breakfast, (full Monty), full
Scottish breakfast and the Ulster fryup.
The ingredients of a fry-up vary according to region and
taste. They are often served with condiments such as brown sauce or
ketchup.
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Some of the additional ingredients that may be
included in a full breakfast are:
Black
Pudding
White Pudding |
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Baked beans
Sausages, sausage links or patties
Sliced sausage (also known as Lorne square sausage, popular
in Scotland)
Fried or grilled bacon, also referred to as "rashers" or
"slices" Ayrshire, Gammon, Irish, Back or Streaky bacon
Fried bread (usually fried in the grease left from the
bacon)
Bubble and squeak
Chips, hash browns or pan fries
Sautéed potatoes, also known as home fries
Potato bread (also called "fadge" or tattie scone)
Potato cake or Irish potato bread
Eggs, fried, poached, scrambled or in a basket (in a basket
is where they cut a hole in a piece of bread and fry the egg in the center)
English muffins or scones
French toast
Fruit pudding in Scotland
Kidneys, grilled or fried
Kippers
Fried mushrooms
Oatcakes
Pancakes (Ireland)
Soda bread or Scottish Batch (Black Top) Bread
Toast
Fried, grilled, or tinned tomatoes
Potato waffles
Fried onions
Full English breakfast
The normal ingredients of a traditional full English
breakfast are back or streaky bacon, eggs, fried or grilled tomatoes, fried
mushrooms, baked beans, fried bread or toast and sausages, usually served with
a mug of tea. Black pudding is added in some regions as well as fried leftover
mashed potatoes (called potato cakes). Originally a way to use up leftover
vegetables from the main meal of the day before, bubble and squeak,
shallow-fried leftover vegetables with potato, has become a breakfast feature
in its own right. Tatters and baked beans are a common modern addition, while
onions either fried or in rings occasionally appear. In the North Midlands,
fried or grilled oatcakes sometimes replace fried bread.
When an English breakfast is ordered to contain everything
available it is often referred to as a Full English, or a Full Monty.
Full Irish breakfast
An Irish breakfast consisting of sausages, black and white
pudding, bacon and fried eggs.
In Ireland, as elsewhere, the exact constituents of a full
breakfast vary, depending on geographical area, personal taste and cultural
affiliation. Traditionally, the most common ingredients are bacon rashers,
sausages, fried eggs, white pudding, black pudding, toast, sautéed,
sliced potato, and fried tomato. Sautéed mushrooms are also sometimes
included, as well as liver (although popularity has declined in recent years),
and brown soda bread. A full Irish breakfast may be accompanied with a strong
Irish Breakfast tea such as Barry's Tea, Lyons Tea, or Bewley's breakfast blend
served with milk. Fried potato bread, farl, potato farl or toast is often
served as an alternative to brown soda bread.
Ulster Fry
A full Ulster Fry served in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
An Ulster Fry is a dish similar to the Irish fry or the Full
English, and is popular throughout Ulster (hence the name).
A traditional Ulster Fry consists of bacon, eggs, sausages
(either pork or beef), the farl form of soda bread (the farl split in half
crossways to expose the inner bread and then fried with the exposed side down),
potato bread and wheaten farl. Other common components include mushrooms, baked
beans or pancake. All this is traditionally fried, however in recent decades,
people have taken to grilling the ingredients instead.
The Ulster Fry is often served for breakfast, lunch and
dinner in households and cafés around the province. Emigrants have also
popularized the serving of an Ulster Fry outside Northern Ireland.
The usual accompaniment is strong Tea, which will typically
be a blend which is Assam-rich.
Full Scottish Breakfast
In Scotland, the traditional breakfast starts with porridge
or oatmeal, but the "Full Scottish Breakfast", along with the usual eggs, bacon
and sausage, is usually differentiated by Scottish-style black pudding, haggis
and tattie scones. It may also include fried tomato, baked beans, white
pudding, fruit pudding (also fried), and oatcakes. In some instances, the
regular "link" sausage is replaced or augmented by square sliced sausage also
known as Lorne sausage.
Full Welsh breakfast
The traditional Welsh breakfast includes laver bread, a
seaweed purée which is then mixed with oatmeal, formed into patties and
fried in bacon fat. Cockles are also often eaten. however, a "Full Welsh
breakfast" will be listed on a Welsh hotel menu, but be identical in content to
a Full English Breakfast.
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