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How to Serve a Traditional Irish Breakfast

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Breakfast is, hands down, the meal that the Irish do best. Get into the St. Patrick's Day spirit by cooking this traditional Irish breakfast for your family.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

Bacon
Butter
Cream
Eggs
Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice
Loaf Of Fresh Breads
Loose-leaf Irish Breakfast Tea
Mushrooms
Oatmeal
Sausages
Tomatoes
White Tablecloth And Napkins

Step1

Set the table with a clean white tablecloth and cloth napkins. On the table have teacups, small juice glasses filled with fresh squeezed orange juice, real cream, sugar, warm fresh bread or scones, and butter.

Step2

Brew up a big pot of Irish breakfast loose-leaf tea (see Related eHow) and serve it as soon as everyone sits down at the table.

Step3

Serve your family a bowl of hot oatmeal while you're cooking the rest of the breakfast.

Step4

Fry several slices of Irish bacon (cooked soft, not crispy like American bacon) and sausages and then put them aside under a towel.

Step5

Next cut two tomatoes in half and fry them with black breakfast pudding and mushrooms in the fat from the bacon and sausage.

Step6

Fry the eggs last (or scramble them to order), arrange all the food decoratively onto plates and serve it all at once.

Step7

Let your family eat until they're full to bursting. If they are unable to finish, you'll know you've served a proper Irish breakfast.

Tips & Warnings

If it seems like you're making more food than you need, you're on the right track. Irish breakfasts are huge and meant to last you well into the day.

Comments

anonomust said

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on 3/16/2008 #1 You left out Baked Beans #2 You left out Black Pudding #3 Oranges/Orange Juice,although introduced to Europe around 1574,was not largely available to the general public until much later in history. Indeed me own mother,raised in the green hills,recalls that at Christmas the children would receive "an" orange as a special treat...I'm 30yrs. old-you do the maths. #3 Most of the true Irish ate a diet of potatoes, fish and maybe some lamb/pork not all in one meal. Poverty was and is widespread! So,when you describe a "Traditional Irish Breakfast" be mindful of just who's tradition you be speakin' of...for it's true enough that the majority did not eat in the manner you describe-nor could they afford to. Bon Appétit "Food Expert" Do some homework the below link will help:
http://www.dochara.com/eat/history/potato-arrives.php

Anonymous said

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on 11/22/2005 A very important ingredient in a traditional Irish breakfast is a great pile of dry white toast (put a pot of bitter orange marmalade on the table) to soak up egg yolks, tomatoes, etc.