When I was growing up in California my mother would occasionally make us scrambled eggs for breakfast. (I say occasionally because I grew up during a time when eggs and butter were considered the worst things you could eat because of cholesterol. Fortunately, times have changed.)
After plating the eggs mom would then take out some jam, usually strawberry but it doesn’t really matter which kind, and put a blob on her eggs. We all thought it was a little odd at first, but she said that that’s how her father would eat them. I tried it once, loved it and have done it ever since. BTW, I don’t put jam on any other style of eggs than scrambled.
My wife thinks I’m crazy and won’t even consider trying it. She says it’s disgusting and will sometimes leave the room when I am eating my breakfast. I should mention that my grandfather was born and raised in England at the turn of the last century and perhaps this is something that English people from that generation enjoyed… I have no idea.
So do you ever put jam on your scrambled eggs, and is this some kind of UK tradition? I rarely if ever see anyone else doing this. Just curious.
Wow, this must just be an odd family tradition. I make my own jellies and jams and scrambled eggs with homemade wild raspberry jelly is hands down my favorite breakfast food.
In one of Dorothy Sayer’s mysteries, a person is poisoned via a “sweet” omelet with hot jam filling. Several times after reading this story, I wanted to try that (without the arsenic). The omelet tastes okay, but it’s just too messy. Jam when hot and folded into the middle of an omelet just becomes liquid, runs out of its eggy casing and pools on the plate.
No. Scrambled eggs are not something I want to be sweet. Occasionally the maple syrup on my sausages will creep over to the egg side of the plate, but I that is as much of that sort of thing as I will tolerate.
To this day I get an overwhelming craving for a fried egg with a piece of white bread buttered toast, with grape or strawberry jelly on it. (the toast). One of my few happy childhood memories, Sunday breakfast, bacon, the smell of coffee, and the radio on tuned to The Polish Hour. … Jam on eggs sounds English, they love their jam over there, so I have heard.
Nah. There are Savory Breakfast People, and there are Sweet Breakfast People. Pouring maple syrup on sausages or dabbing jam on scrambled eggs is simply insane.
I love biscuits or toast loaded with raspberry preserves, filled with eggs and maybe bacon and cheese. It’s a wonderfully sweet-salty combination. I can see mixing jam with eggs, especially if they’re the creamy scrambled kind. Ooh maybe with a little cream cheese mixed in too. That sounds deliciously decadent.
