The Iconic Full Scottish Breakfast (2024)

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What goes in a full Scottish breakfast? ›

So, what is a full Scottish breakfast? Usually made up of bacon, link sausages, Lorne sausage (also known as square sausage or slice), black pudding, haggis, baked beans, fried mushrooms and tomatoes, toast, tattie scones and fried eggs, the full Scottish breakfast is a sight to behold.

Full English breakfast: Black pudding (sausage), baked beans, bubble and squeak (potatoes and cabbage), and fried bread. Full Scottish: Potato scones (tattie scones), haggis, and oatcakes. Full Irish: Soda bread. Full Welsh: Laverbread or laver cakes.

Porridge. Porridge is eaten throughout the UK, but has become most popular as a breakfast food in Scotland, as oats are easy to store for long periods of time, and the warm, hearty dish serving as a good morning meal in the often freezing weather conditions!

Ingredients vary from place to place, but the basic ingredients to a traditional breakfast include square lorne sausage, link sausages, fried egg, streaky bacon, baked beans, black pudding and/or haggis, tattie scones, fried tomatoes and mushrooms, and toast. And, don't forget a cup of Scottish tea to wash it all down.

A common traditional English breakfast typically includes back bacon or sausages (usually pork), eggs (fried, poached or scrambled), fried or grilled tomatoes, fried mushrooms, bread, both or either fried bread and toast, black pudding, and baked beans.

Our closest thing to your full English breakfast would be eggs, bacon (streaky, not English) or pork sausage links or patties (rarely, both), hash browns or home fries, and toast or an English muffin. Americans don't eat beans for breakfast as a general rule, and very few eat black pudding at all.

A traditional full Irish breakfast comprises bacon, sausage, eggs, potatoes, beans, soda bread or toast, tomatoes, mushrooms, and white or black pudding. For those wondering, black pudding coagulates the pig's blood into a sausage form. The white pudding is simply a pork sausage, usually flat.

If you went to Wales and ordered yourself a full Welsh breakfast, your plate would come loaded with bacon, pork sausage, blood sausage, eggs, and tomatoes.

A full Cornish breakfast has – eggs, bacon and sausages, fried bread and beans, mushrooms and tomato, fried potato and Hog's Pudding, a Cornish speciality – an amazing spread! What a kind and beautiful thing to do for people who are perhaps alone or those for whom a Christmas dinner is not on the menu.

Scotland's national dish is haggis, a savoury meat pudding, and it's traditionally accompanied by mashed potatoes, turnips (known as 'neeps') and a whisky sauce.

What is the signature Scottish meal? ›

Haggis Scotland

When you think of Scottish food, haggis always comes to mind. One of our most traditional and famous dishes is haggis, neeps and tatties, (turnips and potatoes). A delicious combination of meat, oatmeal, onions, salt and spices, haggis is really flavoursome.

Dining Etiquette

In Scotland, dining times can vary widely, ranging from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at sit-down restaurants to the wee hours of the morning at pubs or fast food joints.

Haggis. Haggis is our national dish, and the first recipe dates back to the 15th century (in recorded history).

Black pudding is another traditional Scottish dish that is very similar to haggis as they are both made with the same ingredients: onions, pork fat, oatmeal and spices. Contrary to haggis, black pudding is made from pigs' blood, which holds all the ingredients together.

Some people count bacon and eggs as a full breakfast, whereas for others it must include sausages, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, toast or fried bread, hash browns, black pudding and even bubble and squeak or potato cakes!

While the basics are still the same, bacon, sausages, eggs, and beans, the main difference is the addition of black pudding in an Irish breakfast. It's a love-it-or-hate-it addition.