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People who will only have Yorkshire pudding with beef

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isargosaword · 27/12/2025 17:11

Can I ask why? Yorkshire puddings are a nice addition to any roast meat. I’ve just never understood why you would deprive yourself of Yorkshire pudding on a roast because the meat isn’t beef, what is the reasoning? Some people seem to feel quite passionately about it.

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justasking111 · 27/12/2025 18:11

For years I found them a hit and miss faff. Then recently discovered frozen ones. Now dh will often pop a couple into the air fryer to augment our evening meal. Delicious treat.

MoominMai · 27/12/2025 18:11

SilverPink · 27/12/2025 17:13

Mmm…. Love Yorkshire puddings….have them reheated next day with jam 🤤

Try them with sweet chilli jam! 🫠

Also, I’m sure Toby carvery did a Yorkshire pud at one stage with cream inside!

Flowersandfauna · 27/12/2025 18:11

They go with beef, other things go with other meats!

tilypu · 27/12/2025 18:10

PinkTonic · 27/12/2025 18:09

Literally a little roll of streaky bacon. Presumably you’re familiar with it rolled round cocktail sausages aka pigs in blankets?

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Yeah I know pigs in blankets. So it's basically that without the sausage? Never come across that.. Wonder if it's regional?

CarterBeatsTheDevil · 27/12/2025 18:10

I've never understood this. Yorkshires are the best thing about any roast.

Tryingtokeepgoing · 27/12/2025 18:09

tilypu · 27/12/2025 18:02

What are bacon rolls?

To me that's a breakfast food item, and doesn't go with a roast!

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Bacon rolls are just streaky bacon, rolled up. We used to have them and mini sausages with turkey at Christmas - pigs in blankets were seen as a bit common! I have no strong feelings about those that want to serve Yorkshire puddings with any sort of roast, but I personally never did it as I liked the fact that a roast chicken lunch is very different to roast beef which is different to lamb, because of the differing accompaniments.

Dawnintheageofaquariams · 27/12/2025 18:09

ThePoshUns · 27/12/2025 17:44

I don’t like Yorkshire puddings

I assume that you have no reflection in a mirror, and magpies eye you up on a regular basis..?

PinkTonic · 27/12/2025 18:09

tilypu · 27/12/2025 18:02

What are bacon rolls?

To me that's a breakfast food item, and doesn't go with a roast!

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Literally a little roll of streaky bacon. Presumably you’re familiar with it rolled round cocktail sausages aka pigs in blankets?

Seawolves · 27/12/2025 18:07

I always make them to go with a roast but am not bothered by them myself.

Dawnintheageofaquariams · 27/12/2025 18:06

I'd happily have a Yorkshire pudding with a fried breakfast.
Although I am from Otley by birth, so a tad biased.

RosesAndHellebores · 27/12/2025 18:05

I have them just with beef. That's our preference.

Lamb: onion sauce and mint sauce, possibly some redcurrant jelly.

Pork: apple sauce and possibly some sage and onion stuffing.

Chicken: bread sauce, cranberry, possibly redcurrant.

Beef: yorkshire pudding and horseradish.

Turkey: bread sauce, pigs, cranberry

I look forward to the combinations and the complementary accompaniments.

Everyone else is welcome to do as they please.

Oh, I forgot, toad in the hole.

tilypu · 27/12/2025 18:02

PinkTonic · 27/12/2025 17:59

So I feel like you’re just creating a generic roast dinner by having all the accompaniments with any meat. A roast beef and Yorkshire pudding dinner with horseradish is completely different to roast chicken with stuffing, bread sauce and bacon rolls, or roast lamb with mint sauce, or pork with stuffing and apples. The gravy is different, the whole thing tastes different and to me that’s part of the pleasure of having a different roast.

I know I can buy a block of beef dripping as a PP said, but why would I put something beefy on my roast chicken?

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What are bacon rolls?

To me that's a breakfast food item, and doesn't go with a roast!

Splendidlydidy · 27/12/2025 18:01

We have them with any roast.

HilaryThorpe · 27/12/2025 18:00

TimeForATerf · 27/12/2025 17:45

Has no one mentioned the sausage? Yorkshire Pudding and sausage are made for each other.

I batch cook them, then freeze them for when a pudding is required to finish off. Meal that’s a bit lacking.

I was going to ask if people still make Toad in the Hole? It was a staple of my childhood in the fifties.

PinkTonic · 27/12/2025 17:59

SweeetFannyAdams · 27/12/2025 17:49

We also have sage and onion/sausage meat stuffing with every roast dinner 🤗

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So I feel like you’re just creating a generic roast dinner by having all the accompaniments with any meat. A roast beef and Yorkshire pudding dinner with horseradish is completely different to roast chicken with stuffing, bread sauce and bacon rolls, or roast lamb with mint sauce, or pork with stuffing and apples. The gravy is different, the whole thing tastes different and to me that’s part of the pleasure of having a different roast.

I know I can buy a block of beef dripping as a PP said, but why would I put something beefy on my roast chicken?

TheSparklyShoe · 27/12/2025 17:59

My mother was distinctly unimpressed when I turned up on Christmas Day with Yorkshire puddings to add to the dinner - ditto pigs in blankets! 🐷

BauhausOfEliott · 27/12/2025 17:55

I don’t tend to have them with chicken because I do loads of stuffing instead, and I don’t have them on Christmas dinner just because basically my whole plate is already crammed with food and extras, but I’ll happily eat them with lamb, pork, sausages etc. I’m pretty sure we only had them with beef when I was a kid though. Possibly because my mum hates making them.

Chemenger · 27/12/2025 17:53

I would have Yorkshire pudding with any roast but we don’t have them with Christmas dinner because they are too filling and there is no room in the oven. I would rather have more roast veg and pigs in blankets.

ErrolTheDragon · 27/12/2025 17:50

DappledThings · 27/12/2025 17:42

It just feels wrong! I couldn't do it. It's like that there are certain sauces with certain meets. I wouldn't have mint sauce with beef any more than I'd have a YP with lamb.

But the sauce with beef is horseradish or mustard.
Poultry has stuffing plus other sauces such as cranberry or gooseberry.
Pork has both apple sauce and stuffing.
Having just mint sauce with lamb is mean imo.

MyNattyCrow · 27/12/2025 17:50

OneFootAfterTheOther · 27/12/2025 17:21

<nervously puts head above parapet>. - Because I need the dripping off the beef roast to make them?

You can buy dripping in the supermarket.

rosydreams · 27/12/2025 17:50

my kids would look at me like i lost the plot if i forgot the Yorkshires hahaha

But i do need to practice making them from scratch more i know the method but knowing and doing are different. Its funny because i can make a full Christmas without a issue but yorkshires o dear

SweeetFannyAdams · 27/12/2025 17:49

gogomomo2 · 27/12/2025 17:46

To be honest I’m not bothered by them, I don’t think they are a nice addition, I’d rather have stuffing with every meal myself

We also have sage and onion/sausage meat stuffing with every roast dinner 🤗

Dery · 27/12/2025 17:49

Another here (born in late 1960s, in case it’s relevant) who was raised believing that Yorkshire pudding goes with beef. But i will have it with other things if it’s around.

MrTwisterHasABlister · 27/12/2025 17:48

I don’t have Yorkshire Puddings with any meal. Horrible, pointless things. Bleurgh.

gogomomo2 · 27/12/2025 17:46

To be honest I’m not bothered by them, I don’t think they are a nice addition, I’d rather have stuffing with every meal myself

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