5 live In my opinion - Yorkshire pudding

[Appleton Brews]

Have you never seen the 4 Yorkshiremen sketch you will never know how poor we were
Meat Luxury-we used to eat a handfull of hot gravel if we were lucky

Luxury we were too poor to have a TV, we lived in a cardboard box on the M62.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

to fool the neighbours into thinking they were having roast meat for dinner ( Lunch if from down souff like me )

Now you've done it (the old dinner tea debate) I have dinner12:00, Tea at 17:00 I am from "Up North"

 

[An Ankoù]

My understanding (and I’ve married into a Yorkshire family ) is it was originally served with gravy before the meal to fill you up with low cost ingredients as meat was not only scarce but very expensive.
I’ve also been told of stories whereby housewives would sharpen a carving knife on the front doorstep on Sunday morning in order to fool the neighbours into thinking they were having roast meat for dinner ( Lunch if from down souff like me )

My mum used to sharpen the knife (there was only one) on the front door step as a matter of course. Yorkshire pud certainly had to do with scarcity of meat, but I'd always thought it was for when the meat had run out, later in the week. No concept of a "starter" in or house. You had your dinner followed by pudding (I think we called it "sweet"). Having a starter would have been like having two dinners.

 

[Appleton Brews]

My mum used to sharpen the knife (there was only one) on the front door step as a matter of course. Yorkshire pud certainly had to do with scarcity of meat, but I'd always thought it was for when the meat had run out, later in the week. No concept of a "starter" in or house. You had your dinner followed by pudding (I think we called it "sweet"). Having a starter would have been like having two dinners.

You had a knife and a door luxury. We had a Starling for Xmas dinner if we were lucky.

 

[An Ankoù]

You had a knife and a door luxury. We had a Starling for Xmas dinner if we were lucky.

We had a door step, but dad had chopped up the door for firewood some years earlier. Our knife was the pride of the neighbourhood even when the handle came off.
A starling? Save us the feathers, we'll make some soup.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

We have turkey AND beef on the plate which means we can also add cranberry sauce (not for me though), horseradish, yorkshires, and stuffing. Also yes to brussels, roasties, carrots, parsnips, pigs (apple sauce anyone?). All washed down with loads of gravy, beer and wine.

Then the Christmas pud and the treacle suet pudding - custard or cream? Both, obviously. Don’t forget to save room for the cheeses and port, lots of port!

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Always have Yorkshire Puds with any roast, no cranberry but horseradish for me even with Turkey!

 

[The Baron]

My understanding (and I’ve married into a Yorkshire family ) is it was originally served with gravy before the meal to fill you up with low cost ingredients as meat was not only scarce but very expensive.
I’ve also been told of stories whereby housewives would sharpen a carving knife on the front doorstep on Sunday morning in order to fool the neighbours into thinking they were having roast meat for dinner ( Lunch if from down souff like me )

That is true my dad used to sharpen his carving knife on the stone step

 

[An Ankoù]

Always have Yorkshire Puds with any roast, no cranberry but horseradish for me even with Turkey!

Horseradish goes with everything; not least, sprouts!

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Horseradish goes with everything; not least, sprouts!

The king of condiments

 

[soupdragon]

Who's "bright" idea was it to start having turkey at Xmas anyway. It's boring

Cheers Tom

 

[Appleton Brews]

Who's "bright" idea was it to start having turkey at Xmas anyway. It's boring

Cheers Tom

Sir Walter Rayleigh to go with potatoes and tobacco.

 

[Appleton Brews]

The king of condiments

Condiments of the Season.

 

[soupdragon]

Sir Walter Rayleigh to go with potatoes and tobacco.

So it wasn't our American cousins then? I have this vague recollection about the Brits adopting a Thanksgiving type menu

Cheers Tom

 

[soupdragon]

So it wasn't our American cousins then? I have this vague recollection about the Brits adopting a Thanksgiving type menu

Cheers Tom

Ah, no. Just read something about Henry the 8th subbing it instead of goose

Cheers Tom

 

[An Ankoù]

Who's "bright" idea was it to start having turkey at Xmas anyway. It's boring

Cheers Tom

A marketing ploy by Erdoğan.

 

[Clint]

I was only looking at the knife sharpening gouge in the sandstone wall on my mams garden path this morning. Alongside my dad's initials carved into the stone and the date 1962.

 

[Cwrw666]

I voted yes to Yorkshire puds but we won't be having them - too much mucking about. For very many years Christmas dinner is meat cooked over roast veggies and nothing else. Bang it all in the oven together and take it all out to eat an hour and a half later. Who wants to faff around on Christmas day?
Oh, and the meat this year will be pork. Never turkey cos me Mrs spent her childhood gutting and plucking turkeys for the month up to Christmas. She can't stand it.

 

[Caramel Ox]

Yorkies making a strong come back…

I thought the reason for turkey was that they can be stocked more densely than the traditional duck or goose. Then turkey appeared in Charles Dickens and now that’s the tradition?

 

[robster62]

My ex sister in law used to insist on baked beans with her Xmas dinner