To say Yorkshire puddings are pointless

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There is no flavour to them, and take up space on the plate that could mean an extra roast potato

Pmsl! am from Yorkshire!

Dad was a miner, and money was a bit tight, so we always had a huge yorkshire pudding served before the main course (with loads of onion gravy as the joint would be rather small...)

My mum isn't a great cook - for Christmas she would start to boil the sprouts in November - but by God she could make fantastic Yorkshire puddings! I always enjoyed those more than the main meal itself!

Even now, I sometimes make them for the kids, who love em - even though we live in the south east sometimes, I make giant ones, and serve them with sausages, and left over beef casserole gravy and loads of veg, with cheesy mashed potatoes....

So very unreasonable, i fecking love em.

I couldn't resist a post considering my username!

We have them as a starter, with the roast and any left over with syrup.

Also sprinkle on a bit of paprika before pouring on gravy - absolutely lovely.

pixwix YOU were lucky.

We used to come home from a 30 hour day int' mines, take off the one shoe we shared between the six of us, gerint tin bath int front garden and then sit down to a meal of one yorkshire puddin filled wi dust fromt coal fire...but we were 'appy

You obviously haven't tasted well made Yorkshires... Mine taste amazing! YABVVVVU!

YABU, they are the best bit!

Piprabbit, nope, haven't eaten a steamed suet type pudding in donkeys. Probably not since school (& that was many moons ago!). Didn't have them as kids and wouldn't enter my head to cook / eat / order one now. And don't much like pastry, so don't eat mince pies.

I'm a massive fan of roast meat but would rather have a ton of green veg than batter / spud type side. You batter fans are weird!

UABVVVVVU.

Eeeh! mynewmoniker a' tha competing like? We dint ev a coal fire - used to set on one of kids to spontaneously combust like - and warm us 'ands through - so no coal dust for t'yorkshires - floor sweepings were our fillings - although we didn't actually ave a floor - erm....though...

Eeeh! pixwix tha wer lukky! We dint av floor sweepins - we just went straight down tut sewer where we'd play wit family int winter evenins and pretend we wer at Witby. We'd use yorkshire puddins as pretend buckets and us coal shovel as a spade - but we were 'appy!

If you'd asked me this before Christmas, I would have said YABU.

One bout of norovirus later, YANBU. Ban the puffy little fuckers.

YANBU. Boring, pointless. I'll take the extra spud, thanks.

Had them with lamb tonight yum yum. You are beyond the realms of unreasonable.

I can't believe this thread ....I would cry for you op if I wasn't so full from my giant yorkshire's filled with mash, beef, carrots and cabbage!

I use the same volume method; put 3 eggs in jug (6 for giant), make a note of the amount then have the same milk and flour. Beef dripping until smoking then heaven awaits!

mynewmoniker actually whitby has lots of steps - although a bit like t'cellar steps, although sewers might also have lots of steps.

As an aside, when I was 15 my mum was walking up the steps to Whitby abbey, and had a heart attack - we didn't realise it was a heart attack at the time, though the chest pain and shortness of breathe should have alerted us - pmsl!

Anyways - we get to the bottom, mum clutching her chest, and dad said anxiously "Shall I get t' ambulance lass?"

Mum drew herself up to her full 5ft height and said emphatically "Nay lad - I'll have a '99 cornet- wi a flake in it!" And she did - wasn't till we got back to Barnsley and she went for an ECG, that we realised that a 99 wi a flake was a useful treatment for a coronary artery blockage..

And yer ad a sewer - A SEWER! we used to just pass it on ter 'neighbours like...

YABVVU, they are delicious! Cooked properly they are divine!

Neighbours! - You wer lucky - we used to bring't pit ponies up from't mines an tie em tut outside toilet door - then go for a kal wi em while cleanin't front step and blackin't grate wi leadin' that wer made outat burn yorkshire puddins

going to try a few of the recipes and i will get back to you all.

aye well - we ad ter eyt blackened yorkshires -not scrub grate wi em (if we ad a grate that is.... which we dint)

my new moniker - where are you from? I haven't heard having a kal with someone for aaaages!

YABU they're only tasteless if you use vegetable oil rather than beef dripping. Google James Martins recipe for them.

Ayyup pix. I've PMd yer wi mi reply tut latest question.

Well I will say that individual Yorkshires are the work of the devil.
Yorkshire pudding must be made in a bg pan. You HAVE to use beef dripping-none of this sunflower oil nonsense.
And the fat MUST be very, very hot.
My Nana used to make the biggest yorkshire pudding in the known world. It would rise to pracically fill the oven.
And it IS a starter. With gravy.
And Aunt Bessie is a travesty.

YY willdoitinaminute. James Martin. He knows.

in order to alleviate the space issue we do indeed have our half a dozen each before our meat and veg .

Yum yum, yum yum, yum yum.

Yabvvvvvvu. Yorkshires filled with gravy, wiped around the plate to clean up the remnants of mash and meat.