Fry-Ups (The Full English Breakfast)
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
The Fry-up is one of the truly great and original meals the British have come up with. Thus, it is also known as 'The full English breakfast'. Grease is essential to the truly great fry-up and must NOT be used sparingly. If you ever come across a 'healthy' fry-up, just run. This researcher cannot emphasise enough the importance of grease in a fry-up. Once you have massed enough grease, you must then find a 'frying pan' which is a circular metal pan with a handle, shallower than a pot but made of thicker metal. Once you have these two, you must put the grease in the pan and place it over heat to melt the grease and get it to cooking temperature.
Contents of a good fry-up
Eggs: Preferably free range
Sausages: Two types, the short fat ones or the thin long ones
Bacon: Smoked or unsmoked
Fried Bread: HAS to be white, thick sliced bread
Fried Tomato: Large juicy ones are the order of the day
Fried Mushrooms: Again, the bigger the better
Black pudding: Available from your butcher, optional extra
How to cook your fry-up
This is how I cook my fry-ups, its not the way you may do it but it works:
Heat the grease in the pan to a relatively hot heat and then add the sausages first
After this, add the bacon, black pudding and tomato. Turn all of them over regularly and add the fried mushrooms as soon as the bacon starts to crisp and place the bread in the pan. When the bacon is crisp and the sausages a just brown all over, remove all the contents onto a plate. Now turn the heat right down and add the egg. quickly spoon the fat over the egg using (believe it or not) a spoon. Make sure you pick up any crispy bits on the pan and place them in the egg white before it solidifies. As soon as the egg is to your liking, take it out of the pan and place it on the plate.
Contents of a good fry-up
Eggs: Preferably free range
Sausages: Two types, the short fat ones or the thin long ones
Bacon: Smoked or unsmoked
Fried Bread: HAS to be white, thick sliced bread
Fried Tomato: Large juicy ones are the order of the day
Fried Mushrooms: Again, the bigger the better
Black pudding: Available from your butcher, optional extra
How to cook your fry-up
This is how I cook my fry-ups, its not the way you may do it but it works:
Heat the grease in the pan to a relatively hot heat and then add the sausages first
After this, add the bacon, black pudding and tomato. Turn all of them over regularly and add the fried mushrooms as soon as the bacon starts to crisp and place the bread in the pan. When the bacon is crisp and the sausages a just brown all over, remove all the contents onto a plate. Now turn the heat right down and add the egg. quickly spoon the fat over the egg using (believe it or not) a spoon. Make sure you pick up any crispy bits on the pan and place them in the egg white before it solidifies. As soon as the egg is to your liking, take it out of the pan and place it on the plate.
