Breakfast ideas (apart from toast or cereal).

Farway

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Hi,

I used to get a drop gruel, on a good day, but especially as a treat on birthdays, oh how I looked forward to my birthday.

Cue three Yorkshire men sketch for Monty Python

laurel7172

My grandmother used to put a tray of bacon into the oven/coal fired range last thing at night. In the morning there would be cold, crispy bacon in a tray of snow white dripping.

So my mother tells me, when she is remarking on how bacon today would boil if you tried to do the same.

floss2

Do you mean back in olden days, pre 1894? Probably porridge or bread.

lostinrates

My farming family often used to have steak for breakfast. This practise used to still be done when my mother was little for big days, in harvest etc.

Otherwise, 'cooked' breakfasts of various sorts and or porridge. Eggs any number of ways. Fruit soup.

There is some georgraphic variation too, cheeses, fruits, yogurts, fish. Different things in different parts of the world. People ate what was available locally.

foreign_correspondent

depends when you are talkng about, and what class of people... my dad's family used to have pigs fry (liver) and/or bacon on a regular basis, but they were all working hard physically...

'Go to work on an egg' was a slogan encouraging people to eat eggs for breakfst, before someone decided they were bad for us (which I do not believe for a minute!)

Skint_yet_Again

I remember my gran telling me they would have eggs from their own hens with bread and butter, sometimes ham, and if they were a bit short of money then bread and dripping :eek:

quintwins

fruit soup?

I'd assume (since theres always been ceral in my lifetime) porridge, some form of cooked breakfast, pancakes and other varitaions of bread (soda and potatoe for example) and toast.

lostinrates

quintwins wrote: »

fruit soup?

I'd assume (since theres always been ceral in my lifetime) porridge, some form of cooked breakfast, pancakes and other varitaions of bread (soda and potatoe for example) and toast.

Berries mainly. There are scandinavians in my family, so warm berry 'soup' was not an unusual choice and i do not know whether other fruit soups are scandinavian or adapted to where th family had moved to from othe available things. Which drives home th point...depends where in the world y ou are and where you came from, but local availability would always have won in the end!

quintwins

lostinrates wrote: »

Berries mainly. There are scandinavians in my family, so warm berry 'soup' was not an unusual choice and i do not know whether other fruit soups are scandinavian or adapted to where th family had moved to from othe available things. Which drives home th point...depends where in the world y ou are and where you came from, but local availability would always have won in the end!

so sorta like stewed fruit? or just slightly warmed, i'd hate berry soup, i like all sorts of berries cold to nibble of but crumbles/pies can really only be apple for me, i don't like the texture of berries.

cleggie

Hi guys.
I am sick to death of having cereal or toast for breakfast, so have come up with a few alternatives:

Pancakes (scotch)
Fruit and yogurt
Waffles

Can you think of anything else that i could make for breakfast?