@Cerridwyn all regions of the UK have their own sweet bread style. Scones from Devon (or Cornwall). Welsh cakes from, well Wales. Ecclescakes from NW. Singing Hinnys in the NE. Rock Cakes from, I don’t know where originally… Kinda like scones though you can find them anywhere now.
All worth a try and all a little different! Want to start a fight in a British forum, ask them which the best is.
Or…really want to see British people get animated and fight. Ask them what a small-individual round bread loaf is (American:bread roll). The correct answer is bap, by the way.
@Cerridwyn@Kyeh@yakkoTDI NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!! My kid makes dill pickle popsicles with the juice left in the jar after she has eaten the pickles. To that I say NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO too!!!
I enjoy an occasional cup of coffee, but usually I prefer it with or after dessert following a nice meal.
Though if I’m pairing it with something more directly rather than using it as a nonalcoholic digestif, then my pairing is a bacon, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich, on something with some body to it like a bagel, and some kind of fried breakfast potato product. I like 'em all but my favorite are the fast food potato coins. Slightly overcooked so as to be just a little crunchy.
My (late) sister in-law was from Finland. She used to make a traditional slightly sweet braided yeast bread flavored with cardamom called pulla. It was my favorite and she usually brought a loaf when visiting. Some day I will have to try to make some myself. (RIP Kirsti)
I won’t claim to have ever had “authentic” pulla, but I loved what we made at home. (I think we did a less-sweet variant, like most of our food growing up.)
@macromeh@xobzoo I searched for this thread so I could tell you that if you have Trader Joe’s in your area, they’re currently selling Brown Sugar Cardamom Buns, and they have a very strong cardamom flavor!
Cuban cheese toast. Especially if it has sambal oelek on it.
All the above
And Welsh Cakes
@Cerridwyn I get the feeling that the real name for Welsh cakes is 15 letters long with one vowel.
@Cerridwyn all regions of the UK have their own sweet bread style. Scones from Devon (or Cornwall). Welsh cakes from, well Wales. Ecclescakes from NW. Singing Hinnys in the NE. Rock Cakes from, I don’t know where originally… Kinda like scones though you can find them anywhere now.
All worth a try and all a little different! Want to start a fight in a British forum, ask them which the best is.
Or…really want to see British people get animated and fight. Ask them what a small-individual round bread loaf is (American:bread roll). The correct answer is bap, by the way.
@OnionSoup https://www.welshbaker.com/ if you want to try some
@Cerridwyn
So @OnionSoup, which ARE the best? (I’m hoping it’s the Singing Hinnys!)
@Cerridwyn @yakkoTDI
Welsh is also full of things that look like a consonant but either morph into defacto vowels, or are outright silent.
Breakfast
Eggs (over medium), ham, grits, and buttermilk biscuits.
Don’t drink coffee.
@Kidsandliz more for me
@Cerridwyn you can have the coffee, tea, pop, pickles, and etc. No problem.
@Kidsandliz I will take the coffee. Maybe the tea. But the soda the pickles Etc goes to someone else
@Cerridwyn @Kidsandliz What kind of pickles and pop?
@Cerridwyn @Kidsandliz @yakkoTDI
@Cerridwyn @Kidsandliz @yakkoTDI
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh @yakkoTDI NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!! My kid makes dill pickle popsicles with the juice left in the jar after she has eaten the pickles. To that I say NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO too!!!
@Cerridwyn @Kidsandliz @yakkoTDI
Well, this is for yakko, not for you.
@Cerridwyn @Kidsandliz @Kyeh Pickle pops? Does your kid eat them? Is your kid an athlete?
Pancakes or waffles.
More coffee.
Cap’n Crunch. I don’t know why it works, but it does.
@brennyn One day I will try this…
Belvita Banana Bread Breakfast Cookies.
@Nate311 Belvita blueberry
Fresh apple fritter!
My Grandma’s Cinnamon Walnut Coffee Cake
https://www.mygrandma.com/Details.aspx?Item=CINNAMON WALNUT
I don’t drink coffee.
The best thing with my tea is Biscoff cookies.
I enjoy an occasional cup of coffee, but usually I prefer it with or after dessert following a nice meal.
Though if I’m pairing it with something more directly rather than using it as a nonalcoholic digestif, then my pairing is a bacon, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich, on something with some body to it like a bagel, and some kind of fried breakfast potato product. I like 'em all but my favorite are the fast food potato coins. Slightly overcooked so as to be just a little crunchy.
No mention of a scone yet? Are you Commies?
I don’t know about WITH coffee… But sweet things make me crave coffee. Black, strong, unsweetened coffee specifically.
Can’t have sugar without craving coffee afterwards.
Welsh Cakes from https://www.welshbaker.com/
Croissant!!!
My (late) sister in-law was from Finland. She used to make a traditional slightly sweet braided yeast bread flavored with cardamom called pulla. It was my favorite and she usually brought a loaf when visiting. Some day I will have to try to make some myself. (RIP Kirsti)
@macromeh That sounds delicious.
@Kyeh @macromeh Yes, pulla is delicious.
I won’t claim to have ever had “authentic” pulla, but I loved what we made at home. (I think we did a less-sweet variant, like most of our food growing up.)
Cardamom is underrated.
@macromeh @xobzoo I searched for this thread so I could tell you that if you have Trader Joe’s in your area, they’re currently selling Brown Sugar Cardamom Buns, and they have a very strong cardamom flavor!
I will accept all of these suggestions as being good things to consume with my not-coffee since I don’t drink coffee.
Stroopwafel makes coffee better. Coffee makes stroopwafel better.