Do You Know Yorkshire pudding?- recipe 2

Hi, everyone long time no see.

It’s been a week after first posting.

Today, I’ll introduce you some traditional British recipe to you.

Fortunately, today’s recipe is not nasty or particularly strange, it is Yorkshire pudding.

The traditional British food that originated from England Yorkshire the place with natural beauty.

‘The God’s own county’ it is the nickname of Yorkshire.

Like the nature of this region this pudding only requires egg, milk, flour, salt, and oil to cook.

Also what we need to do for cook this pudding is simple,

as you can see from the link of Yorkshire pudding’s recipe. (check the recipe upside)

Nevertheless, this Yorkshire pudding is much similar with bread unlike it’s name includes a word ‘pudding’.

When you eat this pudding, at first you will say “ahh.. it just a tasteless bread”.

However, traditionally this food designed for eat together with meat or sauces like gravy.

According the oldest recipe of yorkshire pudding in “The Whole Duty of a Woman” 1737

this pudding designed to bake while meat roasted in oven.

It said ‘Make a batter as for pancakes’.

You see this? It is not a pudding!!

Isn’t it strange? What is the purpose of this pudding at first?

Perhaps at the very beginning of this pudding was failure of pancake or bread.

After 10 years later from 1737 the woman english cookery writer Hannah Glasse published a book

Yes, this book.

After all, she introduced this strange pudding as “exceeding good pudding, the gravy of the meat eats well with it”.

As a cookery writer Hannah’s popularity was highest one to British people,

Until 20th century Yorkshire pudding’s popularity was covered whole England

and Yorkshire pudding was been loved by British people as lunch meal.

However, the increased demands of convenience food let the world be known a Yorkshire pudding.

Fast, easiness to bake, and plain flavor made Yorkshire pudding to be useful food for busy men and women.

Until now, this strange pudding is one of top famous British food in this world.

Posted on February 22, 2015, in Geek's recipe and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.

  1. After reading this blog post I noticed that I made Yorkshire pudding in the cooking class in high school. And I agree, these are delicious. Of course mine tasted awful and disgusting but when i ate the teachers yorkshire pudding it was amazing. Next time im gonna use the cook book you showed me in this blog post and hopefully i can make something better than what i made in my cooking class back in high school.

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