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9 recipes
The Full English Breakfast
The undisputed king of breakfasts — back bacon, butcher’s sausages, eggs, beans, black pudding, grilled tomato and fried bread, all cooked in one pan wherever possible.
Serves 230 min totalEasy
Proper Bacon Butty
Crisp streaky bacon in a soft white bap with a lash of butter — the nation’s favourite handheld breakfast, no garnish required and none wanted.
Makes 213 min totalEasy
Grilled Kippers with Butter
Oak-smoked Northumberland kippers grilled with a knob of butter — the breakfast of kings on the great Victorian and Edwardian tables.
Serves 213 min totalEasy
Black Pudding with a Fried Egg
Thick slices of proper Bury black pudding, fried until crisp-edged and crowned with a runny-yolked egg — a northern breakfast of champions.
Serves 217 min totalEasy
Smoked Haddock Kedgeree
Flaked smoked haddock folded through buttery curried rice with soft eggs and parsley — the great Anglo-Indian breakfast dish of the Raj, still unbeatable on a slow weekend.
Serves 445 min totalModerate
Proper Porridge with Honey
Slow-cooked pinhead oatmeal porridge, creamy and rib-sticking, finished with good English honey and a splash of cold milk.
Serves 222 min totalEasy
Bubble and Squeak
Yesterday’s roast potatoes and cabbage fried into a golden, crisp-edged cake — named for the sound it makes in the pan, and the best reason ever to cook too much on Sunday.
Serves 2–330 min totalEasy
Crumpets with Salted Butter
Hot toasted crumpets riddled with holes, drowned in salted butter that runs straight through — best eaten leaning over the plate.
Makes 8 crumpets40 min totalModerate
Staffordshire Oatcakes
The Potteries’ own pancake — soft, yeasty oatmeal rounds folded round melted cheese and bacon. An oatcake shop breakfast, recreated at home.
Makes 630 min totalModerate