Can a Yorkshire person explain Yorkshire pudding?

milkydrink

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Penelope_Penguin

The tradition is to have yorkshires as a starter, so that people fill up on a cheap food, so eat less of the expensive beef.

We have our yorkshires with the meat (don't do in for starters, really) and I eat the leftovers for breakfast with HM raspberry jam

Penny. x

salster

We have Yorkshire pudding with all meats (Sunday dinner is not the same without it), but also as a starter and as above it can also be a sweet dish.

I'm a Rotherham / Sheffield bird so Yorkshire through and through.

Plus you forgot Toad in the Hole - For any day of the week.

weezl74

...and she was one of 8 kids. :eek: So I think the meat was in very short supply(!) Their meal on a Sunday, and Christmas too, contained a large pudding each filled with gravy and veg, before any of the meat came out in the main course.

She was a bit bewildered when people in the south did it differently. At 14 she went into service in the home of a rich doctor, and thought that yorkshires WITH the roast was one of his strange ways that no-one else had.

Like how even though she had to clean the stairs she could never tread on the carpet runner up the centre, only the wood at the edges. That rule didn't just apply to his domestics either.:rolleyes:

Just thought I'd give you all a little bit of history!

Weezl x

MATH

Fiddlesticks to tradition:D we have yorkies with all roasts, it just isn't Sunday otherwise. LOL They are great with turkey, especially if you pop a stuffing ball into the centre of each one as you slam them in the oven and pour in cranberry sauce as you take the out again. YUM!

Crazychik

Ive never known anything different from growing up in Derbyshire, we've always had Yorki puds with every sunday meal, and even toad in the hole on some nights.

salster

MATH wrote: »

especially if you pop a stuffing ball into the centre of each one as you slam them in the oven and pour in cranberry sauce as you take the out again. YUM!

What an ACE idea!!

I'll be trying that when I do my Mid Christmas dinner for me and my mate. Mmmm.

lil_me

Some of my family are originally from Yorkshire, my Dad was born in Yorkshire, Yorkshire Puddings I still sometimes serve as a starter, usually a large one on the plate filled with gravy, not too often as it's not good for the waistline . Great Grandma always said they were given before dinner so the men didn't eat all the meat (she was born in 1901) This was ALWAYS done at my Nanas for the men in the family when we went for Sunday dinner there, I remember my cousin bragging when he turned 16 as he was allowed one and we weren't. Must agree we had Yorkshire Puddings with most dinners, not just beef, aswell as the starter of a large one they were served as small ones with the dinner, extra puddings allowed if you ate all your veg as Nana always made loads We didn't/don't have them with sweet fillings as often.

Math, pleased I am not the only one who does that, but I tend to put a diddy sausage into the stuffing then into the muffin tray with the yorkshire mix in.

Another favourite of mine is to make thin soft yorkshires in a big baking tray that are fairly flat, then use them to make beef and gravy wraps, yummy!

Angelraesunshine

lil_me wrote: »

Math, pleased I am not the only one who does that, but I tend to put a diddy sausage into the stuffing then into the muffin tray with the yorkshire mix in.

Another favourite of mine is to make thin soft yorkshires in a big baking tray that are fairly flat, then use them to make beef and gravy wraps, yummy!

mmm never done either of them but yum gonna start now lol

lil_me

Muffin tray means bigger yorkshire puddings, I don't do them in the little shallow trays anymore

As far as recipes go, my Nana couldn't tell you what she does in weight etc as she just knows what to throw in, always comes out perfect, so I tried a few recipes, I prefer Brian Turners ramakin of each method but do tend to swap half the milk for water because of cost without a noticable difference.

salster

lil_me wrote: »

Muffin tray means bigger yorkshire puddings, I don't do them in the little shallow trays anymore

As far as recipes go, my Nana couldn't tell you what she does in weight etc as she just knows what to throw in, always comes out perfect, so I tried a few recipes, I prefer Brian Turners ramakin of each method but do tend to swap half the milk for water because of cost without a noticable difference.

I've never used a recipe for them either. I wouldn't have a clue.

I just put stuff in a bowl/large jug and whisk, sometimes I leave it to rest and sometimes I don't.

*Usually* turns out ok. If not then they become 'Yorkshire Pancakes' :rotfl: