English Breakfast Day
How can I have not been aware of this?! It’s not something we eat every day, we tend to save it for special occasions, maybe a chilly or not so chilly Sunday morning.
I have probably shared many English breakfast photos on my Insta when one such occasion arises, it tends to be a glorious affair. I try to source genuine English products like black pudding, although I have been known to use morcilla or bull negre but they are not the same as a good Bury Black Pudding. My sausage of choice is Cumberland and if I can’t find them I make my own from minced pork and spices, hence it being a rare occasion. Just scrolling through my Insta for examples and I can see I quite often don’t have the black pudding, I always have the staples, occasionally I might come across hash browns, although I do feel they are an American addition and my husband favours fried bread.
No English breakfast would be complete without Bread, I have to have lashings of Lurpak butter and I would prefer it on Warburtons thick white but for the sake of my health (which is a farce given the fat content of the other ingredients) I always get a nice healthy wholemeal. It has to be cut the common way in rectangles not triangles, you cannot make a decent butty to dip up the juices of your beans, egg and tomato with a triangular sandwich, the innards fall out. Can I also add at this juncture that I much prefer tinned plum tomatoes to fresh grilled, I think that’s another throwback to eating in greasy spoons, the pride of British culinary fare. You may spy my Easter breakfast on here its the one with the afters of a Lindt chocolate bunny. Naturally, for me, no English breakfast is complete without a splodge of HP. Plus, china mug of Earl Grey (no milk) is de rigeur.
Of course, not every day is a full English day but I do have a fondness for eggs in the morning, boiled, scrambled, poached, with various additions and particularly mushrooms and smoked salmon on a posh day. However, my absolute simple favourite is a dippy egg with soldiers. How can you not love this quintessentially British nursery staple?
If you would like to learn more about the English Breakfast and get involved, aside from cooking and eating it, check the society out here and don’t forget to use the tag #EnglishBreakfastDay and share away.
