yorkshire pud first?

[wonder years]

allready sort of asked this in body and soul but really should be in food, when i lived at home, when we had a cooked dinner with yorkshire pud it was allways served first seprate from the meat and veg, does anybody else remeber or still have it this way

[Kim A]

When I was a kid, we had our YP first on the weeks when Dad's wages had been a bit short and the joint of beef was somewhat smaller than normal - I always understood that it was served this way to fill us up early so we didn't want to eat so much meat and there would be a bit left over for 'cold lunch' on the Monday - stretch that joint to infinity and beyond............(!)

[WendyS]

I believe Yorkshire pudding was always traditionally cooked under the meat in mining areas where there was a lot of financial hardship and money for meat was often in short supply. The pudding would collect all the delicious meaty juices and be eaten first to fill the family up. Then the small joint of meat would be carved and shared out once the edge had been taken off peoples' hunger to enable it to stretch further.

[cameo]

when i was a kid and we visited relatives in leeds they always had their yorshire pudding first.

my husbands mum came from lincolnshire and so he grew up having it first as well.

so now if it is a large pudding cut into pieces we tend to have it first but if they are small individual ones we have them with the main dinner.

either way i love it!!

[TheMan]

YP before the main meal, for reasons already stated then if anyone was still hungry YP would be served with a dollop of jam! Excellent filler!

[Kim A]

It's also good with Golden Syrup, but the YP has to be very hot and very crispy and straight out of the oven and puffed up and golden and .............you get the picture.....................

[waimarie]

Hi wonder years, Being a Londoner, nobody had warned me of this barbaric practice when first visiting my girl friend's family for the first time. (This was in Leicester). I'm afraid I looked a bit shocked when this huge pud arrived in front of me covered in thick gravy. Couldn't have been too bad though as we've now been married 51 years (the girl friend, not the pud!!)

[heathfield]

Aaah! Real homemade YP, not the puffed-up airy-fairy things you buy in supermarkets. One of the few food items you can have as a savoury starter, as a main course accompaniment , and as a dessert.

[Kim A]

Has to have been cooked in real lard, though, whatever you're going to eat it with.

[Alibobs]

My family are from Leeds and always ate it first

[Buenchico]

Many years ago, I always found it amusing to join my friend's family, in Yorkshire, for lunch. My (Yorkshire-born) friend ate his YP as an accompaniament to his main course. By then, his father (also Yorkshire born) had already consumed his YP as a starter. However, another portion was set aside for my friend's (Glaswegian) mother to eat as a dessert - with custard!

Chris

[lilacben]

On a visit to Norfolk in the 60's with my mum and dad we was served yorkshire pudding first, and was offered golden syrup to put on it.UCK!! I have never liked yorkshire pudding anyway so that made it even worse for me.

[wonder years]

thanks for all the replies seems like a canny few people ate their puds this way.

[wonder years]

while on the subject of remembering sweets from childhood days can anyone remember spanish sold it was in an oblong packet, and was sort of spirals of brown that tasted a bit like marzipan?