People who will only have Yorkshire pudding with beef

In the late 60s my Yorkshire student landlady used to serve the Yorkshire pudding - with sultanas in! - as a first course, with gravy. I did find it strange but it was very nice.

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 don’t like Yorkshire puddings

Butchers/supermarkets have sold beef dripping for longer than I've been alive and I'm in my mid fifties 😳

So surely by the fact that there's a traditional away to make the most from the chicken (which is more expensive than yorkies given it uses meat), then that's even more reason to look down on yorkies with roast chicken?

It's just a thought.

I'm from Yorkshire and like someone else has said, you need the beef dripping for them to be proper Yorkshire puddings. Having said that, I have them with any roast dinner but they're not, strictly speaking, proper Yorkshire puddings.

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.

You can change your vote.

Chicken wasn’t always the cheapest of the meats and indeed if you buy a decent free range bird now it’s still not cheap. I’m one for having specific accompaniments so don’t do Yorkshires with anything but beef, but I think historically it’s about making them with the beef dripping. I don’t think they’re needed with poultry because I do other things like bacon rolls and bread sauce.

Buy a block 🤷‍♂️

I’m Yorkshire going back many generations, in fact according to ancestry dna my relatives never made it much further than the Pennines (which explains the weird feeling I get when we get to the summit on the M62!) We have Yorkshire puds with everything, even memorably a bbq in the height of summer once.

When I was young, I was seriously ill, and my mum was a nurse. They sent me home to be nursed at home until I died basically (I didn’t obviously). My mum made me Yorkshire puddings for lunch for weeks on end, god love her.

My kids are weird, one doesn’t like Yorkshires, the other doesn’t like gravy and despite being half Irish they both only like chips the roast potato forms of potatoes, which is sacrilegious IMO.

As someone up thread said, there’s nowt as queer as folk.

My mum is the type to only make them with beef. She says they ‘don’t go’ with other meats.

I don't know why exactly, it's what I was brought up eating, but I think it's partly due to the additional options. With chicken, turkey or pork there's stuffing as well as often some sort of sauce (cranberry or apple).

I don't agree about the chicken thing by the way, as my mum was telling me that in the past, people only had chicken or turkey once a year as it was an expensive meat, and beef or lamb were the regular Sunday roasts.

Ooh no, they go with any roast dinner, including Christmas. No way am I not having Yorkies with my nut roast! 😂
In the rare event of leftovers they're delicious with golden syrup. My DM would often make extra just so that we could have them like that for dessert.

Yes, they're lovely with golden syrup! 😋

Mainly because I’m lazy and can’t be bothered to make them every time I do a roast, which I do most weekends. It’s not a hard & fast rule, but DC know not to expect Yorkshires with every roast and don’t moan if I don’t do them. Having said that I don’t think I’m brave enough to ever serve Yorkshireless beef. The consequences would be unthinkable.

(I don’t buy them because I mostly try to avoid UPF).

It's simply tradition they were served with roast beef so some people, probably the older generation, prefer to stick to traditional customs. Was it made with beef dripping? My uncle (81) sent his back when he was served roast pork with a yorkie.

Traditionally a joint of beef sits on top of the Yorkshire pudding on a trivet and drips into the batter, the Yorkshire almost becomes a batter pudding, very thick and tasty and crispy on the edges, very little rise to it and certainly not light and fluffy. It was always served first with lashings of gravy so you needed less meat for the main. (My grandfather was from Yorkshire and would only eat it this way, as a child in the 70s I fought to have it as a "starter" and as part of the main!!).

Nowadays for me, Yorkshire with anything and everything!!

I dont need that kind of negativity in my life, thank you very much.

I was Brought up
yorkshires went with beef
stuffing went with chicken
mint sauce went with lamb
apple sauce went with pork none of this could be mixed

my son doesn’t eat potatoes but loves Yorkshire puddings so now we have them what ever the meat because I need to bulk his dinner out from just meat and carrots

That doesn't make sense though because people have stuffing with chicken, and originally that was the same idea - to bulk up the meal using stale breadcrumbs and herbs.

I dont find them a "nice addition to any roast" i like them with beef as a dark meat the Yorkshire works imo. However i dont find it works as well with white meats. Due to this I only serve them with a roast beef.

I dont have an issue with others doing different

I'm more alarmed by people talking about having a roast without gravy!

Yorkshires go with any meat and I am from Yorkshire so my word is definitive. Having said that I don't always bother to make them every time I do a roast.

I grew up in the 90s (rural farming family in the SW) having them with every good roast.
Never realised some people thought they were for beef only until recently!

The answer is, as anyone of Yorkshire heritage can tell you, is because there’s nowt as queer as folk.

Of course, Yorkshires are best made with beef dripping but a good joint should yield enough for a couple of future meals.