Yorkshire Puddings on Xmas Dinner

[Shirty]

I'm pretty "meh" about Yorkies at any time, but my kids would instigate a mutiny if they were missing from the Christmas dinner.

 

[Notters]

Roast Dinner = Yorkshire Pudding. How is there even a doubt?

Also have the inlaws coming this year and my father-in-law is from Leeds so probably wouldn't go down well without!

 

[PWA]

Yes, lob them on.

 

[Notters]

Roast Dinner = Yorkshire Pudding. How is there even a doubt?

Also have the inlaws coming this year and my father-in-law is from Leeds so probably wouldn't go down well without!

I'm pretty "meh" about Yorkies at any time, but my kids would instigate a mutiny if they were missing from the Christmas dinner.

I was until I started making my own! like to make them a bit herby and garlicky.

 

[BensGrandad]

Do those that have said yes have them on the plate with the dinner or in their correct form pre dinner with gravy.

 

[Stato]

Yorkshire pudding was traditionally served with beef because it contained the dripping from the joint. In the past, it wouldn't have been served with white meat, not because they do not complement each other, but because there was no dripping with which to make it. Unless you are eschewing the Aunt Bessies or the, now standard, eggs, milk and flour recipe, and making a traditional pudding with the dripping, there is no current reason to get so precious.

If you want to argue that its not acceptable to have Yorkshires with your turkey, you may want to consider that you shouldn't be eating turkey anyway. Its a new world arriviste that didn't become a British Christmas dinner option until Tudor times and didn't overtake goose as the staple until the nineteenth century.

Each to their own I say. I don't expect anyone else to adopt my Christmas traditions, although I would highly recommend my Yuletide breakfast of Coco Pops and sugar with double cream. It reeks of Saturnalian excess, a winter festival that precurses Jebus by some centuries.

 

[BensGrandad]

There are many recipes out for them but a foolproof way is equal quantities of eggs, milk and SR flour leave mix in fridge for 1 hour and then put in dishes of boiling fat/ dripping, never fails they always rise, sometimes too much, but it works for people that are dubious and buy them frozen.

 

[Titanic]

There are many recipes out for them but a foolproof way is equal quantities of eggs, milk and SR flour leave mix in fridge for 1 hour and then put in dishes of boiling fat/ dripping, never fails they always rise, sometimes too much, but it works for people that are dubious and buy them frozen.

1 egg, 1 pint of milk and 1 bag of self-raising flour?

 

[Notters]

There are many recipes out for them but a foolproof way is equal quantities of eggs, milk and SR flour leave mix in fridge for 1 hour and then put in dishes of boiling fat/ dripping, never fails they always rise, sometimes too much, but it works for people that are dubious and buy them frozen.

Very different to my recipes, and I find leaving in the fridge always makes them rise less. You want lots of air in there. I do 140g plain flour, 2 eggs and 200ml milk and whisk to a FRENZY.

 

[Titanic]

Very different to my recipes, and I find leaving in the fridge always makes them rise less. You want lots of air in there. I do 140g plain flour, 2 eggs and 200ml milk and whisk to a FRENZY.

If that's anything close to 4oz and half a pint then that is pretty much what I would do too!

 

[Normski1989]

If that's anything close to 4oz and half a pint then that is pretty much what I would do too!

It's more like 5oz and a third of a pint.

 

[BensGrandad]

Mine have never failed either myself or my wife. I first saw it done by Brian Turner on the TV and it works a treat but will agree with beating it well or use a mixer.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Yorkshire Puds are a staple of ANY roast dinner, come to think of it they should be made compulsory for any meal

I thought they were?

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Beef only - therefore definitely NOT for Christmas.

 

[Justice]

Beef only - therefore definitely NOT for Christmas.

Goes down a treat with Lamb with a nice mint gravy.

 

[Superphil]

I'm all for it, but we'd never call it y*******e pudding, just pudding.

 

[dazzer6666]

Beef only - therefore definitely NOT for Christmas.

Having beef for Christmas. Turkey........dried out tasteless shite [emoji106]

 

[graz126]

definite yes from a yorkshireman. and yorkies with ice cream or treacle in them for desert.

 

[SeagullinExile]

I am of the opinion that any roast dinner is improved with a good yorkie. Xmas dinner is not excluded from this rule.

Are you mad? I'm firmly in the Yorkies for Beef only camp.

 

[OzMike]

It's a must with every roast dinner, Yorkshire pud is not just for Christmas.