An English breakfast traditionally includes items like sausages, bacon, eggs, tomatoes, baked beans, mushrooms, and fried or roasted potatoes. It may also include dishes like black pudding, prunes, buttered toast with marmalade, tea, and orange juice. The full English breakfast provides energy to face a long day since workplaces and schools are far from home in Britain. Though most people now have a quick breakfast during the week, the traditional English breakfast consisting of various meat, vegetable, starch, and drink components is often enjoyed on weekends when there is more time to prepare it.

1. What is in anWhat is in an
English breakfast?English breakfast?

2. English breakfast can be considered a
great way to start the day, it is probably
the most important meal in the world!
But during the week most people have a
quick meal because they don’t have time
to prepare a cooked breakfast.

3. Usually they have a traditional English
breakfast at weekends because there
is more time to prepare it.

4. There are different reasons for which
breakfast is a full meal in Britain:
workplaces and schools are usually far from
home and people come back home in the
afternoon so they need energy to face the
day.

5. An English breakfast may include:An English breakfast may include:
• Sausages
• Bacon(It can be fried, but traditionally it is grilled until
slightly crispy).
• eggs (scrambled or fried)

6. • sliced fried red tomatoes (fresh tomato,
halved and then grilled until browned)
• baked beans (tinned beans)
• fresh salted mushrooms

7. • fried or roast potatoes
• fried bread
• black pudding

8. An English breakfast mayAn English breakfast may
also include:also include:
• stewed prunes
• buttered toast, often spread with orange
marmalade
• tea (traditionally it is served with milk)
• orange juice

9. The History of ToastThe History of Toast
Toasting bread in ancient times was a
means of preserving it. The Romans
spread the idea of toast throughout
Europe, even into Britain. The word
'toast,' comes from
the Latin word tostum, meaning burn.
Toast is essentially burnt bread, so the
name makes sense.

10. WHY IS MARMALADE NOT
JUST AN ORANGE JAM?
There is a legend. It says that marmalade is a
contraction of “Marie malade”. The story goes
that when Mary, Queen of Scots, was ill,
marmalade (then quite a rare delicacy) was
one of the few things that she could eat. So,
the French phrase “Marie malade” meaning
'sick Mary' came to be applied to the breakfast
delicacy of the Scottish-born queen.

11. SCONESSCONES
About the origin of the word “Skone”, some say it
comes from the Dutch word ‘schoonbrot’, which
means beautiful bread, others argue it comes from
Stone of Destiny, where the Kings of Scotland were
crowned. Scones became popular when Anna, the
Duchess of Bedford (1788 – 1861), one afternoon
ordered the servants to bring tea and some sweet
breads. She was so delighted by this, that she
ordered it every afternoon. They are still served
daily with the traditional cream topping in Britain.

12. The English breakfast,
like so many British
traditions, is based on
what became popular
in the Victorian era.
Victorian home
economist Isabella
Beeton in ”The Book of
Household
Management” (1861)
gives the following
advice about breakfast:

13. “Breakfast is always a leisurely
affair and considered to be a
splendid way to start the day”

14. This is our class: 2^D

15. …and these are the delicious
scones we ate with out
teacher!

16. We also drank a cup of good
English tea to complete our
experience!

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