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From: "Herbert Harrison" <>
Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] Christmas Dinner
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 08:30:31 +1300
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Hi, Deb and Others,
My grandparents and my father came out from Leeds in 1906 and we had
Yorkshire Pudding at almost every main meal and the making of it by my
grandmother was not considered to be so much of an art as a ritual.
It was always eaten on its own with gravy before the main course.
Some months after I married in 1954 and we had just moved into our newly
completed home, my dear wife said we would have YP for dinner.
The main course came but no YP!
"Where is the YP," I asked?
"Oh, its coming ,"she said with a mysterious smile.
It came as a dessert covered with a white sauce!!!!!!!!!
My Mother & Father were horrified and I am only too pleased that my
Grandmother had passed on some years before!
Of course, my wife's parents had emigrated from LANCASHIRE in 1912, so that
explains that!!
I was told, that is how it is served there - in their day anyway.
My grandmother always said that the YP originated in working class families
because it was comparitively cheap to make and very, very filling. It was,
therefore a wholesome and filling meal so the main course did not have to be
so large and did not cost so much.
Herbert.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Deb Walker" <>
To: "Gen Yorks Newsgroup" <>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] Christmas Dinner


> Hi Folks
>
> Strictly speaking though, Turkey is a relatively modern innovation for
> Christmas Lunch. My Dad was raised on a farm in West Yorkshire in the
> 1930s
> and they always had a good joint of beef on Christmas Day. Some people
> had
> a chicken, or goose if they could afford, but both my parents agree that
> the
> preferred option was beef.
>
> As far as good old Yorkshire pud is concerned, if we are going to be
> picky,
> it must always be served on it's own, prior to the main course. We eat it
> with our roast beef these days, but when I was a child it was always
> served
> as a sort of starter. My sister in law is from Surrey and the first time
> my
> brother brought her home for Sunday lunch she was horrified because she
> thought we were ONLY having Yorkshire Pudding ! As a child I didn't like
> gravy so mine was always served with milk and sugar and my grandmother
> (born
> in the 1890s) used to put currants in her Yorkshire Pud. It was cooked in
> a
> huge tray, rose to monstrous proportions, and was then cut into slices to
> serve, not like the little round ones we all eat today.
>
> All this talk of food is making me hungry ............
>
> Deb
> in rainy Mirfield WRY
>
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