#English Breakfast

[oddarette]

Tea Bee 🫖🐝

[scoutingthetrooper]

[flowersforfrancis]

[jupiterovprsten]

morning

[visually-corrupted]

[yurinas]

London Breakfast

[pattdork]

Beatrice: Do you want some tea?

Ava: What are the options?

Beatrice: Yes or no.

Ava: but like, white tea, red tea...??

Beatrice: In this house, we only drink one tea, and one tea only: English Breakfast.

[vegan-nom-noms]

Vegan English Breakfast

[beans-in-your-socks]

hmmmmm

here I am

watching good omens on a cozy spring afternoon, sipping tea from my ineffable mug.

no seriously

[olahresidence]

Oh yeah! We're back in business now! Finally feel like I've gotten my groove back. Here's the purples for huevember.

14 - Caro et Ferrum 15 - Cats Cradle 16a - English Breakfast 16b - E.B. Doily Edition

[theatheistgirl]

[scoutingthetrooper]

english breakfast feast

[consult-sherlockholmes]

As everyone keeps doubting that I can actually cook, here it is.

And the bacon is vegan, as fried pork products can contain carcinogens like nitrosamines, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heterocyclic amines, and I do not want John to consume such toxins and potentially shorten his lifespan that way.

The whole flat might have been filled with smoke after I finished cooking and the kitchen in disarray, but I still prepared a fine meal, which is the thing that actually counts with cooking.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

- Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems in English and French

I went to a restaurant once that said it served "breakfast at any time" so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance. My waiter got the joke.

What isn’t a joke is the traditional English breakfast as a national institution. Most of us love a full English breakfast; you can even travel abroad, to the Mediterranean resorts in Spain for example, and find this quintessentially British dish on sale in cafes and restaurants.

Sometimes also called a ‘fry-up’, the full English breakfast consists of fried eggs, sausages, back bacon, tomatoes, mushrooms, fried bread and often a slice of white or black pudding (similar to bloodwurst). It is accompanied by tea or coffee and hot, buttered toast. These days, breakfast may also include other items such as baked beans and hash browns.

There are many regional versions of this staple. For example, the Ulster Fry includes Irish soda bread; the Scottish breakfast boasts a tattie scone (potato scone) and even maybe a slice of haggis; the Welsh breakfast features laverbread (barra lawr, made from seaweed); and the Cornish breakfast often comes with Cornish hogs pudding (a kind of sausage).

The tradition of breakfast dates back to the Middle Ages. At this time, there were usually only two meals a day; breakfast and dinner. Breakfast was served mid or late morning, and usually consisted of just ale and bread, with perhaps some cheese, cold meat or dripping.

A lavish breakfast was often served by the nobility or gentry at social or ceremonial occasions such as weddings. A wedding mass had to take place before noon, so all weddings took place in the mornings. The first meal the new bride and groom ate together would therefore be breakfast and became known as the ‘wedding breakfast’.

By Georgian and Victorian times, breakfast had become an important part of a shooting party, weekend house party or hunt and was served a little earlier. The gentry loved to entertain lavishly and that included breakfast.

Breakfasts were unhurried, leisurely affairs with plenty of silver and glassware on show to impress the host’s guests. The breakfast table would groan under the weight of the produce from the host’s estate. Newspapers were available for the family and guests to catch up on the day’s news. Indeed, it is still socially acceptable today to read newspapers at the breakfast table (a definite ‘no-no’ at any other meal).

As well as eggs and bacon, which was first cured in the early 18th century, the breakfast feast might also include offal such as kidneys, cold meats such as tongue and fish dishes such as kippers and kedgeree, a lightly spiced dish from colonial India of rice, smoked fish and boiled eggs.

The Victorian era saw a wealthy middle class begin to emerge in British society who wished to copy the customs of the gentry, including the tradition of the full English breakfast. As the middle classes went out to work, breakfast began to be served earlier, typically before 9am.

Surprisingly, the full English breakfast was also enjoyed by many of the working classes. The punishing physical labour and long hours of work in the factories of the Industrial Revolution meant a hearty meal first thing in the morning was necessary. Even as late as the 1950s, almost half the adult population began their day with a good old English fry-up.

[khadi1230]

[livewire11211]

I’m someone who wasn’t allowed to drink tea growing up (I grew up Mormon) but then I learned I liked ginger tea when I was in Korea and then peach tea and other sweeter based tea as I’ve grown older, so my roomie got me this lil collection of different teas to try for my birthday so I’m gonna let y’all know what I think as I go through each one.

First is English Breakfast.

I tried it both as is with honey and then, as it says on the tin, with milk and sugar (I measured with my heart), and I really like both! Although the milk and sugar surprised me (milk?? In tea?? Did not know that was a thing) and I think I like it that way best. There was nothing bitter about it and it was very smooth. Will continue drinking!