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Bacon for breakfast, and teatime
Breakfast in Britain used to be a hearty affair
- with bacon or ham, sausages, eggs, sometimes
even kippers or black pudding, and toast. Equally
traditional was 'afternoon tea', where biscuits
or small cakes were the order of the day besides
a cup of tea. Nowadays, however, a typical British
breakfast consists of muesli, and afternoon tea
is no longer customary. Even fish and chips, the
British forerunner of fast food, is increasingly
being replaced by hamburgers and the like.
Fish and chips
Ingredients (Serves 4):
1 kg fish fillet (e.g. cod or haddock)
juice of 1 lemon
100 g plain flour
1 egg
½ tsp salt
5 tbsp mineral water
5 tbsp milk
1 kg firm-boiling potatoes
1 litre vegetable fat or oil
Method:
- Wash the fish, dab dry, cut into pieces and
sprinkle with the lemon juice.
- To make the batter for frying, put the flour
into a bowl and make a well in the middle. Separate
the egg yolk from the white and put the yolk
into the well with the salt. Mix together.
- Gradually add in a mixture of the milk and
the mineral water, and mix to a smooth batter.
Leave the batter to stand for 30 minutes.
- Beat the egg white until stiff and fold into
the batter.
- Peel the potatoes, cut into chips and dab
dry.
- Heat up the vegetable fat or oil, lower the
chips into it in batches, and fry without browning.
Lift the chips out of the fat and allow to drain
on kitchen paper.
- Fry the fish pieces in the hot fat in batches
until golden brown.
- Return the chips to the hot fat and fry until
golden brown. Sprinkle with salt and serve with
the fish.
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