English breakfast
The English breakfast (also English breakfast or full English breakfast ) is a multi-course meal :
- Fruit juice, grapefruit or similar
- Breakfast cereal
- Main course with various warm ingredients
- Tea with milk, toast, citrus jam
Countless variations are common. Depending on the region, it is also called full English, Scottish, etc., or cooked breakfast .
Full English breakfast
procedure
Breakfast often starts with a fruit juice (orange juice) or half a grapefruit . Also prunes (prunes) in juice or compote (stewed fruit) are possible. This is followed by breakfast cereals or porridge .
The main course of the full breakfast consists of fried bacon , small fried sausages , fried or scrambled eggs and often grilled tomatoes and fried mushrooms . All ingredients are served together on a plate.
Baked beans and hash browns adopted from the USA have also become common in the past few decades. In some areas, such as Yorkshire and Lancashire , English breakfasts include black pudding . White pudding 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.
Breakfast is accompanied by toast and black tea , which is usually drunk with milk if it is not the flavored Earl Gray . In addition to the obligatory toast, fried bread is sometimes served, which is bread roasted in a pan, also in an egg as Poor Knights of Windsor (see Poor Knights ). Breakfast is rounded off with another cup of tea and toast with salted butter and jam made from oranges, lemons or limes . Marmalade is available in different versions, with a lot or a little peel, bitter-sweet ("Olde English Thick Cut Marmalade"), sour or sweet.
tea or coffee
From the 20th century until the 1960s, tea was almost the only thing that was drunk for breakfast. Basically the English breakfast tea is drunk with milk, whereby the question of whether to pour the tea on the milk or vice versa, the entire Empire in supporters of the MIF (Milk-In-First) - or TIF (Tea-In-First) - The faction divides, the latter consists mostly of members of the higher social circles ("upper middle" and "upper class").
The reversal from tea to coffee began in the last third of the 20th century, initially among the intellectuals, who soon drank more coffee than tea, and it was only with the popularization of instant coffee that it took hold of the working population, so that at the end of the 20th century soluble coffee 90 % of the UK coffee market. Fruit and herbal tea ("infusion") are rarely consumed in Great Britain.
Simpler version
A simpler version of the English breakfast without the hot main course is often referred to as a continental breakfast . These include fruit juices, tea or coffee, toast, butter, jams (both marmalade and jam, i.e. not just citrus jam), honey and a wide variety of cereals (cornflakes, muesli , etc.)
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans G. Hönig, Paul Kussmaul: Strategy of Translation. In: Tübingen Contributions to Linguistics 205, Gunter Narr, Tübingen 1999, p. 90. ISBN 3-878-08586-9 .
- ↑ Warren J. Keegan et al. a .: Global Marketing Management. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2002, p. 119, ISBN 3-486-25005-1 . Limited preview on books.google.de , accessed on July 31, 2018.
