Breakfast Menu – Seasonal, local and ethical British food.  We eat Paleo-ketogenic and are happy to share our ideas with you.

The following are nearly always available………

• Natural Herefordshire apple juice from our un-sprayed Lower Buckton trees
• Locally made, natural yoghurt. Sometimes organic.
• Lower Buckton muesli mix & special granola.
• Organic porridge served with various fruit syrups, cream, or Welsh whisky
• Fresh, seasonal fruit or poached fruits in season
• Free-range eggs cooked “anyhow”
• UK grown, flat-cap field mushrooms baked with butter and fresh herbs
• Buckton or local tomatoes baked in Shropshire rape oil with fresh green herbs. Never out of season imports.
• Griffiths’ Leintwardine home-cured Aga-grilled bacon
• Griffiths’ Leintwardine prize-winning Aga-griddled thick pork sausages
• Welsh mustards, LFS tomato ketchup & spicy brown sauce.
• Mr Swift’s organic sunflower & grain and granary brown breads to toast
• English butter
• Honey from Leintwardine bees or thereabouts
• Lower Buckton’s famous Seville orange marmalade which over the years has won Gold at the World Marmalade Awards.
• Lower Buckton homemade jam
• Marmite of course.  Love it or hate!
• Taylor’s of Harrogate Yorkshire tea. Not local but the best.
• Speciality organic fruit infusions & Lower Buckton’s freshwater-mint tisane
• Lavazza ground coffee brewed to proper strength.  Not local either but it supports Slow Food International

*Everything is cooked to order. We do not expect you to pre-order the night before.

Here are just a few extra ideas for house parties and special requests. Just give us some notice of what you’d like or tell us your favourites …..

• Bubble and squeak
• Kedgeree based on Carolyn’s recipe featured on UKTV and published in The Peoples Cook Book
• Eggs Benedict
• Potato fries with fennel
• Smoked salmon with scrambled eggs
• Eggs Arnold Bennet
• Fresh herb omelette

What you’ll NOT find in your traditional English farmhouse breakfast at Lower Buckton

• Cornflakes or any other imported, sugar-coated cereal.
• Baked beans – unless especially requested.
• Tinned tomatoes.
• Gloopy orange juice or any other pulverised juice from sub-standard fruit.
• Out of season, imported tomatoes.
• Margarine, spreads or anything pretending to be butter.
• Instant coffee.
• Anything which isn’t full-cream milk.
• Blueberries, strawberries & raspberries in the middle of winter.
• Maple syrup.
• American-style muffins and pancakes. What’s wrong with an English muffin and pancake?
• Frozen, bought-in pastries & croissants.
• “Things in packets”
• Imported fruit.
• Black pudding – because we don’t like it.

Take a look at our Breakfast gallery