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Breakfast at Ednovean Farm

March 28, 2015

Table set for Breakfast at Ednovean farm luxury Bed and Breakfast

We serve a traditional farmhouse breakfast to our Bed and Breakfast guests at Ednovean Farm. It is designed to set you up for the day – or at least my guests assure me they won’t need any lunch afterwards (maybe the cream tea or the Pasty didn’t count!)


Anatomy of a farmhouse breakfast

The fresh orange juice to start the morning is a must of course. There’s a choice of cereals, Muesli, Yogurts, and freshly prepared  fruit and guests to help themselves as their Breakfast cooks. Porridge is a popular option with our guests, particularly if they are choosing our Newlyn Kippers to follow.  We use a traditional milled oat to make porridge, with a long slow simmering on the stove, so it’s best ordered in advance.



Our stewed fruits are always popular and the Dorset Mueslis, Crunchy nut cornflakes and I’ve notice guest forsaking the higher fibre cereal in favour of cocoa pops lately too! Sometimes in the summer the figs that line the courtyard are ready to harvest and Charles simmers these gently or pops them freshly picked on the side plates. Later the year the apples come along from our orchard of vintage varieties.

poached eggs and mushroom - breakfast
Porridge
Figs freshly picked
A farmhouse table for B&B
Free range eggs ready for breakfast
boiled egg



How to Cook a full English breakfast

Ednovean Farm breakfast Penzance Cornwall
A full cooked breakfast freshly cooked and on its way to the table

To cook the English breakfast it is always best to start with the best freshest ingredients you can find. I grill the smoked bacon with the tomatoes and mushrooms, after the sausages have had ten minutes head start and again look for an outdoor reared pork sausage – there really is a big difference in quality. Have the grill as hot as possible – I’ve found if I can smell the bacon it is usually time to turn it over. One of my first breakfast guest twenty four years ago now told me sagely “it take thirty minutes to cook a sausage” and I stuck to that advice ever since!


Free range eggs for Breakfast

Free range hens atmospheric farmhouse Ednovean Farm
Trinny and Susannah exploring our slate flagged hall

Lastly the eggs – they have to be free range and they have to be fresh – I buy day old eggs from a farm in the next village now and our fox enjoys the run of the farm.

Free range eggs and freshly grown tomatoes - breakfast at Ednovean Farm


We did have a group of rescue battery hens for a few years and they lived out their days in our orchard, scratching under the trees and providing big brown eggs with a good deal of pomp and circumstance.

I will always remember how the poor, pathetic, creatures could hardly stand when they arrived and I’ve never bought anything but free range since. For us hen keeping in competition with the farm’s foxes became an insurmountable problem, so all I have now is a hen house and too large an apple crop from our vintage West Country apple tree varieties.


Poaching an egg

Breakfast poached egg - ednovean farm

A really fresh egg is essential for that simple everyday delicacy that strikes fear into the heart of so many people “the poached egg” believe me I tried every method of cooking them, invested in every sort of useless egg poacher until I found the miraculous answer. It has to be a really fresh egg – then if it is broken into a cup and gently lowered into a pan of water at a rolling boil no more. It will sit in plump splendour in a tasty eggy mound. Watch carefully and gently touch with a wooden spatula to test the consistency of the white. Lift out when the white is firm but the yolk is still runny. I can honestly say after twenty four years of white knuckle practise, no skill is involved, only a beautifully fresh egg!
Personally I use a shallow frying pan (and it must be big enough to manoeuvre to get the egg out again)

Vegetarian breakfst - Tomatoes eggs and mushrooms
A vegetarian option: – poached eggs with tomatoes with mushrooms drizzled with truffle oil


Breakfast laid for two in the courtyard garden

  • A courtyard breakfast
  • Table for two

With these breakfast ingredients a substantial or lighter breakfast can be put together accompanied with lots of crunchy toast made with bread straight from the bakery.
And pots of tea and coffee too of course! There is something about the ceremony of pouring tea from a pot that beats a mug hands down


Kippers

We’ve chose the traditional whole kipper as our fish option for our menu from the harbour port within sight across Mounts Bay at Newlyn. It is almost a vintage item today reminiscent of Edwardian Breakfast and we thought it would be more fun to offer than the smoked salmon and scrambled eggs that are on so many menus.

What is a kipper?

Our continental guests often ask “what is a kipper?” It is a Herring, a fish high in omega 3 oils, split butterfly fashion and then smoked over oak chips, It has not been salted so does need cooking before it can be eaten. I simply pop them under the grill for a few minutes until they bubble and hiss in the heat and I’m sure they have “woken up”

  • Freshly cooked Kippers for breakfast
  • The fish man
  • Refectory table

Lighter Breakfasts

Choice is a great thing for holiday breakfasts though don’t you think? So we can offer plump fresh croissants instead of our cooked breakfast or simply cooked scrambled or poached eggs on toast instead!


Breakfast in our dining room or order a breakfast to be delivered to your bedroom

Farmhouse refectory table aid for a spring breakfast


We have a fabulous long oak refectory table for breakfast that we bought when we were married and it’s here that we’ve served so many breakfast under the soaring wooden beams of our roof but we know that sometimes a perfect, private breakfast in bed or on one of the private terraces that open from our bedrooms would be just the thing and so we deliver warm croissants boiled eggs fresh fruit, orange juice and organic yogurts to the bedroom for these guest.

Just because a holiday is especially just for you!


Breakfast tips

  • Use only the freshest eggs or know the hen!
  • Source the best bacon and sausages you can find – try local Farmers markets
  • Keep tomatoes at room temperature – try putting a really ripe banana with them to increase ripeness for added flavour.
  • Really fresh bread from the bakery makes the best toast!
  • Take time to lay the table and make Breakfast a celebration of your weekend together.
Fresh fruit - breakfast dish


I hope that I’ve inspired you to try cooking a breakfast tomorrow morning. These are some of our Breakfast options at Ednovean Farm: –


Ednovean Farm Breakfast Menu

Served in the Dining room at our magnificent Oak refectory Table
Between 8.30 a.m. – 9.00 a.m.

 

 Fresh Orange Juice
Cereals
Muesli with natural organic yogurt
Scotch Porridge
Fresh fruit
Organic yogurt both natural and plain

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Full English breakfast – Two slices of grilled bacon, Sausage, tomatoes and mushrooms with free range fried scrambled or poached eggs from a local farm
Grilled bacon with free range fried, scrambled or poached eggs

Tomatoes and mushrooms with fried scrambled or poached eggs
Boiled eggs served with toast soldiers
Traditional Kippers A traditional whole kipper, oak smoked in Newlyn
Continental Breakfast Croissants warmed with a selection of farmhouse marmalade or fruit conserve

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Wholemeal, granary or white toast (Gluten free available if ordered prior to arrival)

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Breakfast or fruit teas, freshly ground coffee or hot chocolate


Ednovean Farm’s Continental breakfast served in the bedroom

Please order the night before – it will be delivered at 9.00 a.m

 Fresh Orange Juice
Fresh fruit
Yogurts
Boiled eggs
Toast and Croissants

With choice of teas or freshly ground coffee

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Christine Taylor

About Christine Taylor

Christine has written a weekly blog about life at Ednovean Farm and interesting places to visit in West Cornwall for over ten years now, concentrating on those off the beaten track places that only the locals find.

Charles and Christine Taylor have hosted Luxury Bed and Breakfast at Ednovean Farm Nr Penzance in West Cornwall since 1991 and live there with three cats and five horses, including a Spanish Stallion called Danni.

Ednovean Farm has been awarded AA five star gold for Bed and breakfast and is included in The Michelin Guide and The Alastair Sawday Guide .

The Farmhouse and gardens has been featured in BBC Homes and Antiques, Homes and Gardens. Period Living and 25 Beautiful Homes as well as being used as a film and photo shoot location.

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