Full English Breakfast

Name: Full English Breakfast
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: British (English)
Ingredients: 4 Pork sausages; 4 rashers Back bacon; 4 Eggs; 4 slices Black pudding; 1 tin (about 400 g) Tinned baked beans; 2 Tomatoes; 150 g Mushrooms; 2 slices Bread; 1 tbsp Oil or butter; Salt and black pepper

The weekend fry-up: bacon, sausages, fried eggs, black pudding, baked beans, grilled tomatoes, mushrooms and fried bread on one plate. No single skill — the skill is timing it all to land together, hot.

来源

食谱提供 English home & pub kitchens · 🏺 传统 · Everyday English cooking — the food of home kitchens, cafés and pubs rather than any one chef

English · traditional breakfast — An ownerless traditional meal, so no cook is credited. 'Full English breakfast' redirects to the cited 'Full breakfast' article, which is what is stored here. It confirms the cooked-breakfast (or 'fry-up') line-up — bacon, sausages, eggs, black pudding, baked beans, tomatoes, mushrooms and fried bread or toast — and records the four-nations variants (the Ulster fry with soda and potato bread, the Scottish breakfast with tattie scone and Lorne sausage, the Welsh with laverbread and cockles). Quantities and method here are this book's own.

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步骤

Start the sausages first, over medium-low heat, turning them now and then. They need 12–15 minutes to cook through and brown all over, so everything else is timed around them.
💡 Low and slow is the secret to sausages — high heat splits the skins and burns the outside before the middle is done.
After about 6 minutes, lay the bacon in the same pan. Once it has firmed up, push it and the sausages to one side and fry the mushrooms and halved tomatoes in the fat that has collected.
Fry the black pudding slices for a couple of minutes each side until crisp at the edges, and fry the bread in the pan juices until golden. Warm the baked beans in a small pan alongside.
Last of all, fry the eggs in a clean corner of the pan or a fresh one, spooning a little hot fat over the tops so the whites set without hardening the yolks.
💡 The egg goes last because it waits worst of all — a fried egg is perfect for about a minute and then the yolk sets. Have every warm plate ready before it hits the pan.
Pile everything onto warm plates so it all arrives hot together, and serve with tea and buttered toast.

💡 小贴士

There is no cooking difficulty here, only a logistics one: everything must be hot at the same moment. Cook in order of how long each item needs — sausages, then bacon, then the vegetables and bread, and eggs dead last.
The four nations each have their own version, all filed under one Wikipedia article: the Ulster fry adds soda bread and potato bread, the Scottish breakfast a tattie scone and square Lorne sausage, the Welsh breakfast laverbread and cockles. This is the English one.
It is not halal or vegetarian — bacon, sausage and black pudding are all pork. A vegetarian full English swaps in veggie sausages, a meat-free 'black pudding' and extra mushrooms and beans, and is entirely normal in Britain.