to think that putting Yorkshire Puddings on your main plate with your meat is a completely heathen practise?

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It goes against everything that Yorkshire Puddings are FOR. Yorkshire puddings are a starter. They are supposed to fill you up so you don't eat so much meat. Eating them all together ruins the flow of the meal. It is so much more difficult to get meat and veg and gravy and puds out all at the same time - the timings of all the elements work perfectly and harmoniously when Yorkshires are served first. The joint sits resting and being eyeballed by hungry diners, the puds come straight to table from the hottest oven (not sharing a medium oven with the meat) The vegetables go on as you sit for the puds. Trying to serve up main course as everyone else sits for melon or some inferior starters that does not match the main meal is rubbish.

Why oh why does everyone insist on having them on the same plate? There's barely room! Puds are HUGE if you make them right. A shallow bowl with a huge pud and very good gravy - heaven. Follow with meat and veg. It is civilised. Don't get me started on carveries

AIBU?

EmmaBemma - you are right of course, I knew it looked wrong somehow when I squinted at it.

DifferntID - it's not a steamed thing though, tis done in the oven and my exmil served it with a white onion sauce type thing. About the only thing I miss from that marriage

DEFINITELY not being unreasonable!

oh and coderoo your starters argument is null and void

that would suggest that starters are only for poor people

I think The Ivy would disagree

I am so heathen that we have Yorkshire puddings with our Christmas roast turkey, and most weeks with our roast chicken. On the same plate too.

I am so heathen that we have Yorkshire puddings with our Christmas roast turkey, and most weeks with our roast chicken. On the same plate too.

I would like everyone who disagrees with the OP to rethink the 'lattes after dinner' rule

see if you can live with your hypocrisy

Yorkshire puddings at Christmas

they are Yorkshire puddings

they came from the damn north

They only tend to eat them as starters in Yorkshire I think, I'm originally from further north than that and we have them with the roast not as a starter.

But we do have them with every roast, not just beef. My DB insists that my mum does them with Christmas lunch, because there just isn't enough food in that meal is there?

Come to Yorkshire MintHumbug - go in a nice traditional restaurant (no carveries ) and order a traditional roast dinner. Out comes your Yorkshire in its dish with the best gravy, followed by your roast beef which is carved at table, veg come out, there is gravy or bread/parsley sauce. Dessert should technically be stewed fruit.

That's a proper dinner, that is.

Yabu.
And wierd.
And the logic-void of your 15:14 post makes me want to tweeze off all my eyelashes.

In my family (mostly from Yorkshire) only my Grandpa ever ate Yorkshire puds before the meat etc.

I think this is because he was born in 1900.

erm,get a grip???

My friends mum gave us yorkshire pudding as a starter- with a side dish of onion, cucumber and vinegar salad. It was yum.

Is this onion/cucumber thing traditional as well?

We were in the North at the time.

I eat Yorkshires with the meat

and I drink lattes whenever the fancy takes me

and I have garlic bread with pasta

and I have rice and nan bread together

and I have Yorkshires with chicken or sausages or turkey or lamb.

and I have fish knives.

Before you all stone me to death, I do make suet pudding and I cook Yorkshires in the hot oven whilst the meat is resting.

Yorkshire pudding with onion and cucumber? Never heard of that.

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OP - you sound like my Grandma. Were she still alive, she'd be 110 by now. We always had big yorkshire puds first, on a separate plate, with meat juice only gravy before the main roast - and she did make fantastic yorkshires puds!

My mum, on the other hand (flippin Southerner) made little puds that went on with the main meal. We filled them up with gravy (because she made them properly so that they were little cups)

this is a good recipe. Muffin tins are fine (imvvvvho)

Oh yes (nostalgia rush) my Grandmas used to do that onion cucumber and vinegar salad!