Hearty Breakfast Food Cooking Recipes International Guide
Hearty Breakfast Of The Early Settlers
By Ginger O’Riley
Breakfast helps to break the fast after your night sleep, and
gets you ready to face the new day, with a light meal. Ideas for
breakfast has progressed through history starting from the hearty
breakfast of the early settlers.
The tradition of a hearty breakfast includes a plate of eggs,
bacon, toast and potatoes. This rather large meal is more like
a weekend or a holiday treat, rather than a regular morning light
meal to start the new day.
The first settlers in North America, were mostly farmers and
they developed the tradition of a hearty breakfast. They worked
long days, from dawn to dusk, with very little time for a great
lunch break. Therefore, a hearty breakfast was necessary to last
the whole day, until they were sitting at the table for their
family dinner.
Early Settlers Ran Self Sufficient Farms
In those days, many of these farms were self sufficient and raised
a range of crops and livestock. The farmers took advantage of
their produce, to enjoy the fruit of their labours with a balanced
and hearty breakfast.
Their chickens provided eggs, while the cows supplied milk and
the fattening pig was their source of ham and bacon. Homemade
bread would have been on the menu and potatoes were available
all year long, from their fruit cellar.
Early Morning Smells Of Cooked Breakfast
This is how the traditional American breakfast was developed.
The early morning smells of cooked food, would fill up your nostrils
and you couldn’t wait to start the day with eggs, bacon, potatoes
and bread in your style of choice.
Scrambled And Fried Eggs
People like to review their options and cook their steak in a
certain way, the same goes for cooking eggs. There is the usual
choice of scrambled or fried eggs. If you like your eggs fried,
then do you want them sunny-side up, easy or hard as a rock? The
next question is, would you like to break the yolk?
If you prefer scrambled eggs instead, then do you want your eggs
well done or runny? If you are health conscious, then you may
choose your eggs to be poached in boiling water rather than fried
in fat.
Choose Your Meat
There is usually a portion of meat, most often pork, with your
eggs if you eat a traditional breakfast. You choice of meat may
include a side dish of bacon, sausage or ham. You can choose the
way the meat is cooked, to suit your personal taste.
Do you like your bacon crispy and chewable? Do you prefer sausages
lightly browned or cooked through? Would you like your ham grilled
or cold? Alternatively, you may decide to stick to steak and eggs.
Hash Browns As A Side Dish
Hash browns are the more common type of potatoes served with
a traditional hearty breakfast. Left over potatoes from the night
before, are chopped up, mixed with onions and then fried. These
days, many restaurants are placing French fries on the side instead
of hash browns.
For your toast, you may choose white or brown bread, while most
restaurants also offer rye bread as a healthier alternative. In
better restaurants, you will be offered multigrain or bagels instead
of regular toast. If you do not like toast, then you can choose
pancakes with maple syrup, as your alternative option.
There is no real need for every working day to start with a large
breakfast, but it is perfect for a weekend or a holiday treat,
to start the day with a traditional hearty breakfast, to remember
the early settlers.
About the Author:
Ginger O’Riley has written a number of humorous articles
on breakfast ideas, food and cooking including
Breakfast Recipes,
Muffin Recipes,
Chicken Recipes,
Fruit Cake,
Potato Salad,
Low Carb Cooking,
Home Cooking,
Slow Cooker Recipes.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Did You Know About Breadmaking?
Oh, the fresh smell of bread baking. The smell of the fresh bread
rising and then baking in the oven is a scent that is unmistakable.
You do not have to be Martha Stewart to enjoy bread making.
There are recipes out there that will amaze you with how simple
they are and how healthy they are for you. You just need the right
ingredients and the right tools for the job. There are even bread
machines and kitchen machines that do all the kneading for you!
How easy is that?
Optimum freshness means only one thing: you must make the bread
yourself. The ability to combine different fresh ingredients is
an art that is quickly becoming lost. The delicious scents coming
from your bread making is something that cannot be duplicated
from a candle.
It must come from your own skilled hands but there are tips and
ways you can shorten the process. There are books and machines
that can help you make freshly baked bread from scratch if you
know where to look. With time and practice you will be whipping
out loaves in no time at all.
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