Yorkies anyone?

[Wilbro]

Yes thoil sounded odd to me.

[L Austin France]

Yes thoil sounded odd to me.

Same as Yorkies then.

[Spectrum]

Sorry been away so long have forgotten how to spell Yorkshire, near "Last of the Summer Wine" country.

[Loup-garou]

My mother and here extended family was from Yorkshire - Harrogate and further on up - when we had YPs she would eat her's as a starter with gravy, take none with the main plate and have it with syrup as a pudding. We took them with the meat (not just beef). She insisted on making "Yorkshire relish" I think shallots in vinegar and sugar we shunned that practice too.

She tended to make yorkshires in on big tin rather than individual ones and we complained that her taking starters deflated our portions prematurely - we ungrateful kids and husband.

These days I love to have beef stew served inside a big round yorkshire.

[Spectrum]

My mother and here extended family was from Yorkshire - Harrogate and further on up - when we had YPs she would eat her's as a starter with gravy, take none with the main plate and have it with syrup as a pudding. We took them with the meat (not just beef). She insisted on making "Yorkshire relish" I think shallots in vinegar and sugar we shunned that practice too.

She tended to make yorkshires in on big tin rather than individual ones and we complained that her taking starters deflated our portions prematurely - we ungrateful kids and husband.

These days I love to have beef stew served inside a big round yorkshire.

Posh end up North It still divides Yorkshire folk whether to use as a starter or as a main course, there was a bit of snobbish going on to the reasons, it was said that if you served as a starter it was to fill you up as you didn't have much meat, the opposite was true if it was part of the main course. Using the batter as a sweet one was normal as well, little Yorkies for mixed meals but large ones for Toad in the hole, or if used like a plate for various other fillings.

[Loup-garou]

Exactly Spectrum as a beef stew plate ............... they're excellent.

Maybe the poshness originates in/from Harrogate which that side of the family always seemed to get a hint of a "w" into it's pronuncation. Some came down a bit when parts of N Yorkshire joined with Middlesbrough et al and they became "Smoggies"! A number still live in and around Yarm, Northallerton and other small market towns around the Cleveland Hills and North Yorks Moors.

[Wilbro]

Despite us being a Scottish family we lived in the West Riding from the late '40's. We always started Sunday Dinner with a plate filling Yorkshire Pudding shaped with little sides and holding a good measure of onion gravy. Fabulous!. Then the full dinner, roast beef and all the additions followed by a pudding with custard.
Did the Yorkshire fill us up? I don't think so but we were at the end