Full English Breakfast with **Brown Sauce**

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
>
> In another thread asking for British recipes I stumbled across
> a site with video recipes and suggested one for Spotted Dick
> which I note conveniently does not require suet. 
> 
> However, upon browsing the other videos I discovered a recipe
> for a "Full English Breakfast", once cooked you can add 
> Ketchup or 'Brown Sauce'.
> 
> I haven't a clue what 'Brown Sauce' could be, anyone care to
> enlighten me? Is this some variation of soy sauce, is it more
> like American Steak Sauce? Inquiring minds want to know.
> 
> Full English Breakfast-
> http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-a-traditional-full-english-breakfast
> 
> Steve/bboyminn

Geoff:
That is one interpretation of a full breakfast but there are many variants. I might say that 
many of us here in the UK don't have a cooked breakfast. I, for instance, generally have 
cereal followed by toast and coffee, sometimes with a starter such as melon.

Many eating places like to advertise an All-Day Breakfast (my wife is very partial to these) 
but if you go to  many of them, they will offer sausages, bacon, beans and eggs. you are 
more likely to get hash browns offered than mushrooms; pity, 'cos I'm a hobbit!

As an aside, in our family, we are more likely to have sausages and bacon and mushrooms 
as a main meal later in the day with potatoes and garden peas or sweetcorn. Also, we 
always cook the bacon and sausages on the grill to make them less greasy.

Brown sauce. Well, it's not soy sauce. I suppose if you are familiar with the flavour of 
chutney, its similar but has the consistency of a thick sauce. One of the best known is HP 
sauce. I never use the stuff and avoid ketchup but I'm unique in my family for doing that! 
Again, I loathe baked beans. Dad is just odd.
:-)