Реферат: Breakfast

Anyone arriving from abroad and staying at a good English country hotel, might still rub his eyes in disbelief at the breakfast table. After a choice of cereals or fruit juices, there is a choice of fried eggs, ham and eggs, bacon and eggs, scrambled eggs with sausages and grilled tomatoes, fried kidneys or smoked fish such as the famed kipper and the smoked haddock. In addition there is often porridge, oatmeal cooked in water and traditionally eaten with salt, sometimes covered with plenty of fresh cream, or stewed fruits, such as prunes, apricots or apples. After­wards, you can have buttered toast with orange marmalade, jam or honey. To go with it all is the ever-present enormous pot of tea.

'High tea'

In order to enjoy 'high tea' in its fully glory, here again you must visit the coun­tryside. The tea is served strong and drunk with milk and sugar. There are piles of ham, cheese, cucumber, cold chicken and water-cress sandwiches, a substantial meal, often eaten instead of a later dinner. The sandwich, in fact, is an English in­vention and owes its name to an Earl of Sandwich who lived in the 18th century and was such a passionate card player that he did not have time for set meals. His butler therefore served him sliced meat and fish put between thin slices of bread, which the Earl could eat without having to leave the card table.

On the teatable there may also be an assortment of pies, apple pie, gooseberry tart for example, and fruitcake, muffins, crumpets, buns or scones with jam and cream.