Wait, baking soda, too.
English Mustard= So fucking hot it should be illegal
Mmmmm Black Pudding
I use two eggs in my cornbread, 'cause I like it to rise higher. My mother always used yellow cornmeal, but I like white better myself. I also use a ten-inch frying pan. But what the hell is up with the cream of tartar?? I’d get laughed out of Birmingham if I even mentioned that.
And I said, Sometimes I use sugar…but should have clarified I do that when I have to use a mix. Cuts the crappy, sometimes stale taste.
[sub][sup] I KNOW it is against all Southern Cooking Teachings to use a mix, but dammit, I don’t have time every night of my life to fix “from scratch” cornbread! Plus I’m lazy! Remember??[/sub][/sup]
I think the potato cakes spogga means are Irish potato cakes, kind of bread made with potato:
450g (1lb) Potatoes
110g (4oz) Plain Flour
50g (2oz) Butter
1 tsp Salt
Pinch Pepper
Butter or Bacon Fat (Optional)
Wash and scrub the potatoes, but don’t peel.
Boil in lightly salted boiling water until tender.
Drain and set aside in the hot saucepan to “dry in their steam”.
Allow to cool slightly, peel the potatoes.
Mash the potatoes to a smooth consistency, ensuring that there are no lumps.
Season with salt and freshly ground pepper and pour in the melted butter.
Add enough flour to make a pliable and easily manageable dough.
Knead gently to combine.
Roll out on a lightly floured board to form a round of about ¼-½ inch thickness.
Cut the round into triangles, or make small individual round cakes using a biscuit cutter.
Cook on a hot dry griddle or dry frying pan until both sides are golden brown.
The cakes can also be fried in a hot pan in butter or bacon fat.
Serves 4
These are absolutley lush! Also I have to say that most of the cooked breakfasts I have read here sound really delicious, and also fairly similar to what I knock up for breakfast as i’m always trying to make something slightly different to your avergae British fry up. Thanks for the additional ideas, i’m definatley gonna try making the chicken fried steak and the home fries. If anyone else is interested some of my other favourite cooked brekkies include:
Smoked salmon and scrambled (or poached) egg on toasted bagel or muffin (british savoury muffin) with a sprig of dill.
Smoked haddock poached in milk with toast, poached egg, grilled tomato and a whole fried field mushroom (as large as possible).
** WILLASS ** You got it down to a ‘T’ mah man.
You can also grate (not chop) onion into the mix, wear goggles whilst doing this and make sure granny is wearing her WW1 gas mask
Thank-you, WILLASS– I haven’t had potato cakes since gramma Dougall died.
Hopefully I can correct that soon.
Sylkyn, your weekend breakfasts sound just like ours, right down to the tomato gravy and time of day.
All this time I thought the tomato gravy was just some vile concoction my SO made up. It’s really not too bad, you just can’t look at while you are eating.
Do you also then leave any leftover bacon (on the off chance ther is any) on the stove and snag a piece everytime you go through the kitchen?
And spooga, don’t beans before work cause, um, problems in the office throughout the day?
I can’t believe I never tried adding onion to the mix spogga! I will be trying that one asap. Also this thread has inspired me to cook the mother of all breakfast on Sunday the 21st for my friends and family (we are all going out partying on Sat.) I thought it might be a laugh if we all vote on the final ingredients, whaddya all think? I’ll get the ball rolling…
Scrambled eggs (easier to mass produce in a smaller space)
Oh and glad to be of assistance Larry Mudd hope you enjoy them. The recipe is not mine though so I can’t take that much credit!
So anyway Joseph and Mary have been seeing each other for some time but as yet they have not done IT or in the Biblical sense * cleaved unto each other *
Joseph (aka Joe) decides to take Mary for dinner no expense spared,olives, dates,yoghurt,goats cheese and bread, a real slap up affair at Honest Abduls Kebab and Takeaway Restaurant.
During the meal Mary says “Joe, we have been together for a good while now and I’m still a virgin”
[think bubbles here from Joes head] “at fucking last, she’s gonna come across, tonight I break my duck”
“Yes dear heart” “Well Joe I’m pregnant”
5 mins silence ensues.
“Right and I suppose it’s the son of God is it”
“Why yes it is, who told you”
[more think bubbles] “The womans fucking nuts, I was being sarcastic”
“Erm just a wild guess Mary”, “have you told anyone else, like you parents f’rinstance”
“Well actually I haven’t, I thought we could go stay at a motel and discuss it”
“Are you mad, we’ll never get a room , it’s the holiday season”
“What holiday season Joe”
“The feast of the suffering bullshit virgins holiday”
“Oh right [dubiously] well I know a nice stable not far away”
[even more think bubbles] “right on, a roll in the hay, I’ll have some of that”
“OK babe, lead on”
10 mins later.
“Joe”
"What?
“There are three men following us bearing gifts”
“Watcha got there you guys”
“erm, Gold, perfume and some other stuff”
“Right, gimme the gold and perfume and fuck off, my lucks in tonight”
“can we see the child”
“WTF are you some sorta pervos or what, now piss off before I call the Herod Gestapo”
“…and take those bleeding lambs with you, smelly bastards”
MODS: AT THIS STAGE I REALISE I’M POSSIBLY IN THE WRONG FORUM. SO I WON’T CARRY ON UNTIL SUCH TIME AS YOU MOVE THIS TO WHERE IT SHOULD BE. Sorry!
Mmmm… breakfast.
The only full-fledged breakfasts we get in my family happen during the summer at the cabin.
Menu:
Thick cut bacon from the butcher shop, fried until crispy (I HATE the white fatty globby bits)
Eggs, usually fried. When I make them, I scramble with cream cheese, onions, green peppers, and tomatoes
Caramel rolls and/or Plotskis (deep fried bread dough w/ cinnamon sugar)
Hash brown casserole (hey, we’re Lutheran. GOTS to have a casserole!)
Fruit
Milk/coffee/OJ
Here at home, IF I’m feeling all Betty Crocker-y, I’ll make LilMiss eggs sunny-side up (she likes stabbing the yolk- should I worry?), sausage links, and English Muffins.
Okay, Southern born and bred here. I’ve lived my entire life (all 32 years) in Arkansas (weep for me). I learned to make cornbread from my grandmother and we do use eggs!..we also put about a teaspoon of sugar in it!
I’ll expect to be beaten doubly now since I am a bona fide traitor. 
My cornbread-
some yellow corn meal - I can’t tell you how much because I don’t know. I just pour it in the bowl until it looks right.
tsp. sugar (or thereabouts)
eggs - 1
a dash of flour (more evils of the traitor)
milk- Again, I can’t tell you how much. You pour and mix until it’s the right consistency.
Bake…in a 350 oven until it’s done. I can’t tell you how long. It will look right.
Cooking is more of a religion, than science, around here
For special occasions I’ll add grated cheeses, or peppers, or a can of creamed corn for Mexican Cornbread. I have a recipe my aunt gave me for broccoli cornbread. I have vowed to never share it lest the whole world smell like ass.
FB
**Lyllyan ** I’m a postman and work mostly outdoors.
HOWEVER!! from 5 'til 7 in the morning our sorting office smells as if a couple of dead skunks have been festering behind one of the sorting frames for at least 6 months.
Postman are not known for their delicate manners and we did in fact have a postwoman walk out one day 'cos she couldn’t stand it any more.We never saw her again.
** WILLASS ** Scrambled eggs are best done in the microwave oven and don’t forget to add grated FULLY matured cheese to the eggs.
If you can get them you should try the Pork and Leek sausages, deelishus!!
MODS: Will you please remove my post “The First Noel” from this thread and move it to wherever you think it should go.
It was a genuine mistake on my part
Nah, don’t move it.
It fits almost perfectly.
Another Southerner here, and I use plenty of flour and a bit of sugar in my cornbread, and I ain’t never seen anyone complain about it. Wanna bitch? Fine: no cornbread for you!
The bet way to think about American biscuits, if you’re British, is to imagine unsweet scones without any eggs. Biscuits and scones are almost exactly the same thing. 'Cept biscuits are far tastier.
Daniel
The andros and blessedwolf traditional Breadmen’s* breakfast:
3 or 4 eggs, medium
4 slices bacon, crisp
4 links sausage
1 slice ham
bowl of potatoes, diced and fried crisp, lots of salt and pepper
buttermilk short stack, butter and syrup
bowl of grits, lots of butter, salt, pepper
two buttermilk biscuits with sausage gravy
bowl of banana pudding (optional)
pot of coffee
. . . each. We always annoy the seater by asking to a big table, and the poor server still has to scrounge for room.
Mind, we don’t move for the rest of the week. But it’s worth it.
- Chapel Hill, NC. Finest in the land.
Breadman’s is the finest in the land?! Ewwww! That place has been going downhill for twenty-odd years now. They’re foulness incarnate, if you want my humble opinion.
That’s one damn huge breakfast, though, I’ll give you that.
Best grits I ever had were at the (now defunct) Carolina Coffee Shop in Chapel Hill. The grits were made with a full buttload of butter, cream, and white pepper, with a very little bit of a mild cheese. Soooooo gooood.
Daniel
It has to be moved, I could get banned for accidentally posting a joke thread in the PIT.
Apart from which I’m ready for chapter 2.
C’mon MODS move it please…I have chocolate Lynn!!
Scrambled eggs in the microwave!? Are you insane? Wallpaper paste is better than microwaved eggs.