People who will only have Yorkshire pudding with beef

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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.

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.

Buy a block 🤷‍♂️

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.

You can change your vote.

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.

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.

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.

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

I don’t like Yorkshire puddings

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

You can buy dripping in the supermarket.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

We have them with any roast.

What are bacon rolls?

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