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?

Someone did that "Yorkshire Salad" on Come Dine With Me

never even heard of yorkshire pud a first course!
I need it to soak up my gravy. Same plate for me

I make mine in muffin tins, rightly or wrongly I don't know. Same as my mum and my granny

In your honour, OP, I will now go and make some big fluffy Yorkshire puddings.

It is, however, entirely your fault that this thread made me forget my diet and I fully intend on putting on at least three pounds in one sitting so YABU.

isn't it too hot?

Oh..well, ok then..

(carries on in heathen vein and awaits Yorkshire Pud police)

Fleegle I first encountered the "salad" when DH took me home to meet his parents before we were married. They are a bit further North than Yorkshire (Co. Durham) but they served the puddings first with a salad that had mint, onion and I think lettuce but I could be wrong there.

I was brought up slightly outside Yorkshire but when I was a kid we had Yorkshires as a starter for almost every main meal - beef or otherwise.

However, now neither my Mum nor my MIL serve them for starters, they always do them with the main meal. And so do we 'cos frankly I find it easier!

also OP is right about size

I do not agree that the little cups ones are 'proper'

there is a textural difference which cannot be underestimated

I'm half Yorkshire and half Italian and I'm deeply upset by people doing both Yorkshire puddings and coffee wrong. In fact I think MissTrumpton's post is one of the most distressing I've seen in a long time. I'm going off now to dwell on how people in restaurants mispronounce bruschetta.

We always had them as starters (plate sized ones) when I was growing up in Yorkshire, and I am well under 100. Don't remember having them with salad though.

OP YANBU

fragola we have good historical reasons for having latte late

no coincidence that an Englishman who invented Horlicks

do not oppress the rich and deep cultural traditions that support the ingestion of milky drinks at bedtime

I don't even drink lattes. I have milky coffee. I am not Italian I am English.

Now milk or tea first is a proper argument

HAve never heard of this tradition before, I would be stuffed if I ate a Yorkie before my lunch!

Me too Sixty. I'm the sort of person who goes out for a meal and just has a starter with everyone else main course

(mainly so I have room for pud )

normality - you are of course completely correct. My mum's family were from Ilkley and she tells me that is exactly how they were eaten

But she's been ruined by birth in Australia and a lifetime down south so now serves them with the beef.

If this is a tradition, I think it's quite right it is broken.

I wouldn't fancy yorkshir pudding and gravy for my starts one bit.

Just eat it yourself and stop mithering.

starter

What does 'mithering' mean? I have seen it on here a lot. Genuinely don't know.

Don't know what it means in other areas, but here it means bothering, pestering. Like when the kids go on and on and on at you

My mum always does the yorkshire puddings as a starter, with gravy- that way you get more- you can have 3 or 4, not just the one!!!!!

doesn't it mean moanign and grumbling? Isn't it a northern word? I think of it as a bit yorkshire.

It's an old tradition that is well and truely dying out. The idea was that you fill up on the Yorkshire Pudd so you don't stuff yourself silly on the expensive meat.

My FIL encountered this tradition when he was a young farming labourer. He also had to eat his started, main and SWEET from the same plate. And even worse the farmers wife used to cook all the fried eggs the night before for breakfast. Barf. (On the plus side my FIL can eat anything that's put in front of him - after all it can't get any worse!)

Some traditions are old and past their sell by date. Let the yorkshire pudding starter go...

As a kid we ALWAYS had yorkshries first

and Christmas cake with cheese

but nwo as an adult we have yorkshrie on the plate
but still cake and cheese

yummo

god I could just eat a hot hyorkshire pud with loads of gravy right now

we have yorkshrie with every roast, no matter what meat (but we always have chicken, as we can't afford beef or pork or anythingposh )

Oh yes, christmas cake with wensleydale. It is the ONLY way to eat it. Yum yum and yum again.

Thank you. I shall now go and mither now that I know it's meaning.