Yorkshire pudding or no Yorkshire pudding?

Never ever had Yorkshire pudding with Christmas Dinner. We have turkey. I only ever serve Yorkshire pudding with beef. So did my mother and grandmothers and my MiL .

As a Yorkshire girl living in Yorkshire it’s a firm NO!
I don’t think there would be room on the plate anyway!!

My nan use to make 'batter' pudding with dried fruit in it served with thick custard made with steralized milk as dessert, it was lovely.

Bevan why though ? ??

As a child we used to have Yorkshire Pudding as Dessert with Golden Treacle. Couldn't eat that now though!

No way!

That should read Golden Syrup!

I always make my own Yorkshire pudding but only have it with roast beef. Although we love it in this house I wouldn't have it with Christmas dinner, there wouldn't be any room on the plate - I do tend to do a lot of veg.

Yorkies with Christmas dinner in our family. Mind you, they are always called pork pies, since one of our DDs called them that when she was tiny.

Writing from Yorkshire I don't see how there can be any hard and fast rule. Mince pies used to be made with minced meat but the Victorian's, who invented the modern Christmas, changed that. Anything can evolve and most families have their own way of doing things. Nice to think your future DIL has brought something new to the family.

Yorkshires, like so many good foods, are poor people's food and started at a time when I doubt anyone had ever seen a turkey. The batter was put under the meat to absorb the dripping juices and served first to fill people up and stretch the little meat you could afford.

The thing that surprises me is how different my brother's 'English' Christmas is to mine. We both lived in a household where custard was served with the Christmas pudding with cream for my mother. When he spent Christmas with us some years ago we had a last-minute rush on to make some Brandy Butter - never a part of Christmas in our house.

I don't cook Yorkshires but I always enjoy them when served them at other places.
One thing I find hard to understand is the recent addition of cauliflower cheese to Christmas dinners. I can't imagine it goes very well with gravy.

Christmas Day has more than enough to eat without adding Yorkshire puds. We have them with left over gravy before the cold turkey on Boxing Day. We have Christmas pud on Boxing Day too, when it is relished much more.

shysal
I’m one of those who has cauliflower cheese!
We all love it here!

Weve had this conversation today. Work. I don’t do Yorkshire puds on Christmas Day and I’m from the north east. My mam Always said if I cook Yorkshire puddung on Christmas Day it was just a Sunday dinner and I agreed.

Only served with beef I’m from the south.

I'm going to solve the problem of not enough room on my plate for Yorkshires by omitting brussels this year.

My gran always used to serve yorkshire pudding with any meat, but not with poultry, and never with Christmas dinner. I only ever serve it with roast beef, as did my mum. This year, my daughter and her boyfriend are hosting Christmas day for us all, and his family have asked if she can do yorkshires ... it was a very firm 'no!' She told them that yorkshires don't belong on a turkey dinner, and if they wanted them they'd have to make their own and bring them on the day, as there won't be space in her ovens (she has two full-sized ovens, but won't be making space for yorkies!Lol).

Yorkshire lass here.Yorkshire pudding with any meat, or on their own with onion gravy, always make extra so we can have them cold later with treacle.

Not here. I think they'd probably be popular and I don't have any objection on principle, but it'd be too much faff - just another last minute thing to think of.

We have a lot of pigs in blankets and roast spuds, though.
We will be 7 adults and 2 little ones on the day - I made 48
P in Bs last night!

*miss adventure”. Good job you are missing the Brussels this year, looks like a shortage due to a lorry overturn full of sprouts! The local town where the lorry overturned looks shortly to be blown off the map!

Yorkshire’s only with beef, originally from the South.

“The same pudding was served with roast pork but in this case some herbs were added to the batter before cooking.
We added some chopped onion and chopped sage, thyme and parsley to make a savoury dish”

From Alison Uttleys book Recipes from an old Farmhouse.

I’ve never tried it but always thought it would be an interesting addition to pork or poultry.

Yes please! Yorkshire pudding drenched in home made gravy. But I only have it with Sunday Roast.

Always. Even if I’m just cooking for me I always make Yorkshire puddings to go with a roast. I have pancakes for breakfast next day with the rest of the batter.
My grandmother, not a good cook, made a giant Yorkshire pudding in a meat tin, with the previous week’s dripping. The outside edges were all golden and crispy, but the middle remained stubbornly flat and stodgy. We children always had slices of the middle bit cold the next day with co-op mixed fruit jam on top. That combination of flavours, savoury from the dripping on the bottom, sweet from the jam on top, was delicious.

Send me your sprouts MissAdventure I love them.

In our house Yorkshire pudding is served with every meat. However, because of all the extras on Christmas dinner we won’t be having Yorkshire’s.