An American Breakfast, 1865

I came across this description while research a cooking challenge:

 "Breakfast in America is peculiarly a family meal. At this more than any other there is an unrestrained enjoyment of the home circle The breakfast party is almost unknown among us being confined to a very limited circle of the fashionable class not that we are less socially inclined than the English but that the busy active life of this new country forbids the devoting the early hours of the day to merely social enjoyment It is usually a hearty meal consisting of coffee, meats, fish, toast, a variety of hot cakes, and in the Southern States, hominy, and rice cooked in various ways, and several kinds of hot bread..."

           -—Breakfast, Dinner, and Tea: Viewed Classically, Poetically, and Practically (1865)