[Sca-cooks] Irish breakfast

[Tom Vincent]

Sounds more like a Hobbit's breakfast. :)
   
  Duriel

"Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net> wrote:
  
The classical Irish breakfast is usually a variation on the morning 
version of the fry, fry-up, or in the US, mixed grill. As the first 
two names state, and the third sorta implies, various ingredients are 
thrown into a large skillet to cook. These can include any 
combination, in descending order of frequency/likelihood, of things 
like:

~Eggs (especially necessary if this is a breakfast fry)
~Bacon (ditto -- generally back or loin bacon anywhere except the US)
~Sausages, such as bangers or the more standard peppery breakfast 
sausage
~Chunks of cooked black pudding
~Chunks of cooked white pudding
~Chips, home fries or hash browns (often the latter is run through a 
grater, like a potato latke without the egg or matzoh)
~Toast (generally white "batch" bread, sometimes brown bread, and 
never, in my experience, soda bread
~Fried tomato slices
~liver slices (lamb, calf, or beef, normally, but sometimes pork)
~chops, normally lamb, occasionally pork
~fried or broiled mushroom caps, ideally field mushrooms, which are 
fairly similar to portobellos
~kidney (generally lamb)

The liver, chops, mushrooms and kidneys are more evening fry items, 
but do occasionally turn up at breakfast, especially on Sundays. The 
egg seems to be included morning and night. I've heard rumors of 
canned baked beans showing up, even the dreaded curry-flavored beans, 
but I have never actually seen this.

Oh, and sometimes the bread is fried in the pan, and not toasted.

Now you can see the irony built into Harry Potter's bloated Aunt 
[Marge?] saying she doesn't have time to cook anything but a fry-up...

Adamantius



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