The original idea of yorkshires was they started the meal, with gravy. Whoever ate most yorkshires, got more meat. The hope was they'd be too full to want as much expensive meat. Many families then used left-over ones with jam for dessert. Waste not, want not...
You are well informed do you originate from Yorkshire then? None of my non yorkie friends had ever heard of our unusual ways before???? Like eating cheese with Xmas cake!!! 😂😂
Although we now reside in the Midlands , old habits die hard!!!
My husband is from Cleethorpes (Lincolnshire) but his mother's family was from Yorkshire, he used to visit family in Cherry Burton and around Beverley somewhere.
I always ate cheese with Christmas cake and mince pies - I was brought up on the Welsh Borders, north Herefordshire. I have no idea how Yorkshire habits got to me!! Cheese and dark marmalade too.
A great Yorkshire tradition , me a Yorkshire lass we do have them at every opportunity!! Mine were much smaller this year done in a 12 bun tin, but I only had 2!! Those are magnificent. My nan would do a huge one in a roasting tin and we each hacked off a piece!! Lol😂😂😂
Oh yes!! I remember my dad having steak and me getting a little corner piece of it. Nowadays my dad would be put in clink for child cruelty no doubt!! But that’s how it was then! “ we knew our place lol” xxx
We always had plenty, depends on the pan and how it's roasted. I do remember a box of Bisto in the cupboard but I suspect my continental father had a poor opinion of it, so meat juice, unadulterated by flour or anything else, was our gravy. You could get more by adding water and dissolving what had started to stick to the pan. I have never in my entire life made gravy.
Jo you know the writer James Herriot? He said he met an old Yorkshire farmer who announced “ the definition of a posh gentleman is someone who gets out of his bath to go to the toilet “ !!!!
Good for you with the weight loss and diet! I went on an almost no carb diet for 10 months, lost 60 lbs gained on 15 yrs pred, and then was in Italy for November and ate yummy bread and pasta. December back on greens and protein but yesterday blew it on friend's daughter's fabulous mince pie with whiskey sauce. Lesson here that as much as I thought the cravings had gone, well, gee...
**Nee naw nee naw - wine & carb police here!** Is that a glass of wine in the photo? Disgraceful! 😱 AND yorkshire puddings. Shocking! 😳 😂
I hope you enjoyed every last drop of wine & the yorkshire puds! They look amazing, and your kitchen looks lovely. I've thoroughly enjoyed all my 'forbidden fruits' - and it's only boxing day! 😂
Fabulous, those are some serious Yorkshire’s. Now you just need to master Toad in the Hole and I will be on the next plane over to Florida! All the best cc 🤗
I'm sorry to have to tell you Marti but those Yorkshire's would be considered small in some parts of Yorkshire. When I lived in South Yorks the pudding would be the size of a dinner plate and the meat, veg and gravy placed inside. That's when the men worked down pit so no excess fat on any of them!
Hurrah you lost 13 lbs, what a triumph and to crown it with a yorkie is just perfect! Congratulations and heres to you. I raise you a mince pie! My first sweet and carb offering since 1st Sept..... lol.
They look delicious. Like you I've been good ( well, fairly good) throughout the year but couldn't resist, when clearing up after Christmas lunch at my daughter's, all those delicious golden bits that had to be scraped of the dish - too, too good for the bin!
Hi, Christopher. No. I am a complete slug and spend most of my days (sitting on my behind) playing duplicate bridge. There are three people at the club, however, who ARE exercising and eating low- carb. One has lost 42 pounds. The second has lost 48 pounds. And the last one (a guy) has lost 91 pounds.
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