@Schoolimangooli: It will be awhile before we see any satchow post again, he got the BAN. *Hears the roar of a passing C-130 airplane, runs back inside and hides*

my spoon is too big

After this post, I know I'll go to my local pub tonight for a Yorkshire Pudding with a nice pint of beer.

Prinnygeddon!

@jayntampa:

Mmm.. my grandfather used to make his own black pudding and brawn. It really is delicious but hard to find made in the traditional manner now, the modern stuff just isn't the same. I always eat it cold as I can't stand it fried.
Most people I know who try it without knowing whats in it like them, but as soon as they find out whats in brawn and black pudding stop immediately.
I'm old so I still enjoy things like stuffed lambs hearts,liver and kidneys, in fact I have some deviled kidneys I made last night waiting to be eaten in the fridge. It always surprises me that people just turn their noses up at anything like that.

Weirdwolf

@Weirdwolf: Far better than my description.

@Ropa-to: There is no way Drif makes the best Yorkshire puddings, I defy you to even blurt out such slander!!!

I give all thee fellow Kotukites the challenge of making yourselves Yorkshire puddings this evening, give reviews tomorrow. INFACT!! Comp. idea, who can make the biggest Yorkshire pudding?

Dannon

Cool Mr. Ashcraft. Hail James Brown!

Angryrider

@jayntampa: You are a braver man than I. I was recently in Ireland and I just couldn't bring myself to try that stuff. The beef there also tasted kind of strange to me. I believe because it is grass fed rather than grain fed.

El Patricko

@ShaggE: Mine too. Though I also think of my mom's bread pudding. Disgusting stuff. Gah!

@Horseflesh: Sadly there is no good pancake place around this city. IHOP is closed, and Perkins is...meh...

shyguy

@satchow: I think you believe that any attention is good attention.

Now I didn't want to give you an attention be but writing this post (while listening to the POP sensation Jellyfish) I'm completely contradicting myself.

In other words I hate satchow posts.

Schoolimangooli

There's a little town in East Yorkshire called Driffield and they make the best giant yorkshire pudding filled with gravy and sausages. ^______^

Ropa-to

@El Patricko:

there is a lot of very good traditional British foods, unfortunately most people now buy crappy processed junk food and the old recipes are being forgotten.Now MacDonalds is more likely to be the choice of some people.
It never got the protection that a lot of the French foodstuffs got and of course a lot of the French cuisine is stuff from other places renamed in French.
I keep meaning to cook Beef Wellington for my Chinese teacher.

Weirdwolf

@Dannon: Liking your don't open the oven door tip, that's where people always fail.

Oh and another tip is to make sure you preheat a little oil in each hollow, make sure its very hot, the batter should sizzle when you pour it in!

1981suede

@satchow: You had to have known what was going to happen.

You know, I don't think I've ever had Yorkshire pudding. I think I'd like to try it. I had black pudding when I was in Ireland ... but, I don't want to talk about that ^_^;

jayntampa

@shyguy: I dunno about you but I'm on my way to IHOP for a plate of pancakes and a side of gravy.

Horseflesh

My uncultured palate still thinks of chocolate/vanilla/whatever pudding when I hear of British puddings... (I know they're nothing alike, but still...)

ShaggE

I could totally go for some Yorkshire puddings, Mash, beef, broccoli, roast potatoes and gravy right now

/drool

hamandcheeseUK

If you are going to make Yorkshire puddings remember it isn't the same as American pancake batter, it is just flour,egg, a little salt and milk.
Make sure your oven is good and hot and that you do not open it before they are cooked. As a beginner start with small puds in bun tins rather than the larger types, they rise more easily,heat them up with a little oil in them and mix your batter, let it settle for a while and then mix well to get plenty of air into the mix and pour it straight away.
They can be used to make a three course meal. A large Yorkshire pudding filled with onion gravy and sausages is a great meal on a cold day and if you are feeling lazy put the sausages part cooked into the dish and pour the batter over the top to make Toad in the hole.
My favourite is Yorkshire pudding with golden syrup as a dessert.

Weirdwolf

It is a sad thing that we don't have Yorkshire puddings here in the states. A sad, sad thing!

shyguy

Yorkshire puddings are amazing, being from and currently still living here in Yorkshrie you won't find them better anywhere. They are like small reservoirs for your sunday dinner, fill em' up with gravy and then when you start to run out, destroy the wall and you have a whole load more gravy.

Mr. Bashcraft you should indeed make some, same as pancakes, minus the sugar, preheat your oven to about 200 degrees C, get a 12 bun tray and pour about a 1/4 inch of mixture in to each segment and then stick them in the oven for about 25 minutes, DON'T OPEN THE OVEN HALFWAY THROUGH otherwise they'll droop and not be all they could be, they need to blossom.

Me thinks I'll be making some tonight, mmmmmmm

Dannon

@Naif: Yeah, it's one of the few decent food items your people have created.
Why does everything have to be in pudding or pie form?
That being said, thank you for your delicious ales.

El Patricko

They aren't baked in gravy, you pour the gravy on after its been baked. Mmmm, Yorkshire puddings, I love 'em!

1981suede

Yorkshire puddings make a meal. You can fill them up with pretty much anything from potatoes and gravy to beans and chips (fries).

Fallible

haha, i never thought about whether or not americans had yorkshire puds ;]
good old british sunday dinner food ^^

...i never really thought were a part of australian culture either really o_0

Naif

@satchow: lol

My mom makes that yorkshire pudding stuff sometimes at holidays and whatnot. It is indeed, friggin awesome. I would say it's more like delicious, moist, soft, buttery rolls baked in gravy. I want some right now!

El Patricko

James Brown will always be the best, giving you that boost in "Soul Power"!

Surlaw-the-Mai

I hate Brian Ashcraft posts.

satchow

@Weirdwolf: Man I have to study for a test and you're making me so freaking hungry.

Schoolimangooli

You can buy yorkshire puddings in the store. So many people love em, but I dont. I love pancakes..but these things taste like there was a party in my mouth and everyone was having an abortion.

Skitzoap

@jayntampa:

It's all in how it is cooked, liver is like a good steak, soften up some onions in a frying pan and then just show it to the heat. Most people over cook it so it is like shoe leather.
I cook my kidneys like this. Soak them for a little while, and then chop, removing the centre white piece. Coat in a little flour seasoned with salt and ground black pepper. Fry in a hot pan, in oil with some crushed fresh chilli's in it and bacon if you wish..Drain and add some cream and white wine.Heat through and serve,(I had mine with carrot and swede mash and roast potatoes I had left over from a meal I cooked for friends.) Trust me if you can get past the mental block of it being "offal" it is well worth trying. It is a very cheap,delicious and cheap meal.

Weirdwolf

@RBecho: Some sort of meat based gravy, preferably beef I'd say.

1981suede

@Weirdwolf: I (half) kid the Brits! I had some great meals when I was over there. I was surprised at the abundance of Indian cuisine. I had the best Indian meal I've ever eaten while over there.

El Patricko

@TheSmiterer: You can't taste the blood, I'm sure its just the thought of it that puts you off. The big chunks of fat in it isn't exactly pleasing to the eye either. It sure tastes good though!

1981suede

The question I have is what kind of gravy?

Sawmill, Red - Eye, Chocolate, or Brown?

This is a question that NEEDS answering.

RBecho

@Dannon: For that matter, never open an oven in the middle of baking. Bad news.

Fnor

Yorkshire puddings are disgusting. My mate from Yorkshire claims its just that us southerners don't get/can't make good yorkshire puddings, but I would argue its just that they have no taste so you just feel like your eating flavourless cardboard.

@1981suede: ugh. Black pudding. Only time I ate that was when I thought it was just a sausage my dad had burnt. Cooked pigs blood? No thanks.

TheSmiterer

@Weirdwolf: I'm no lover of offal, but a bit of black pudding with a fry up on a Saturday morning goes down a treat. Up north they eat whole black puddings on there own with vineger, that's a bit much for me.

1981suede

@Weirdwolf: Yeah, I kind of didn't like it right off ... I did choose to try it, though. It wasn't foisted upon me :) Then again, I don't like liver or tongue or any other organs, really lol

My parents sure do, though :P

jayntampa

toad in the hole is tasty too (yorkshire puds with sausages in)

Woylez

You know what's even better? Aeble Skiver. It's a softball sized pancake with the syrup in the middle. OH MAH GAWD.

Eville1

Can I chime in and say If you're going to make yorkshire pudding's.
Make sure you heat the oil up in the......I guess you yanks would cook them in muffin trays, so it's really hot! that's good way of getting those lovley beasts to rise.

also use beef dripping for a better taste.

jonhareslovechild

Kotaku bigging up my homeland! The joy! There is no doubt we make the best Yorkshire puds. All the pubs here make 'em the size of your plate and put all the gravy, beef n veg inside of them. Loverly stuff!

will

Yorkshire Pudding is indeed the bom diggity. Goes down well with roast potatoes any kind of roast meat roast parsnips and a absoloute sheeeeeeeite load of gravy.

Gambia

@Schoolimangooli:
Sorry, I love to cook and have worked in nice restaurants so have seen proper chefs at work.
But a combination of living on my own,all my friends moving away and arthritis means I don't bother eating much unless I have guests around. It's nice to chat about food and cooking for a change.

Weirdwolf

Wow...you know what they say about learning something new every day? Here it's not even 10:00 yet, and I've learned something new. For 28 years I've honestly believed that Yorkshire pudding was just a specific flavor of a dessert style pudding. (Chocolate, vanilla, etc...) I loves how the night notes expose me to all sorts of foods I've never experienced (mostly Japanese thanks to Bash.)

Kotaku- making its readers more cultured. Awesome.

HootieMac: Section 9 Reject

I suggest everyone tries toad in the hole at least once in their life, as after that once, they'll be eating it again. It tastes so good.

peewee27

@El Patricko:

One of the only good things about the Raj, MMmgreentomatochutneymmmmm. A lot of the Northern cities had Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi immigrants come over to work in the textile industry after the war. It's the same sort of reason that we have a lot of Southern Chinese Cantonese restaurants in Britain.
I love curry,(I am a Brummie it's a requirement,) and used to love going to the Kashmir in Bradford when I went to see my girlfriend,(it's the place Bill Bryson writes about in Notes From a Small Island.) I was most disappointed to find out they don't deliver, although as my daughter pointed out to the staff daddy might have been a little optimistic as I live over 100 miles away.

Weirdwolf

If yorkshire pudding is a pancake baked with gravy I wouldn't want to eat it. That sounds discusting. I don't know what it is, but I wouldn't eat it with that description.

nxp3

Yorkshire puds are lovely, but I strongly second the rule of not opening the oven before they are completely done :( .

Also, black pudding: scrummyness incarnate. Tho I get mocked for eating it the way my german nana does: lightly fried and then covered in sugar: yummy :D

And I also recommend Bread and Butter pudding for desert- properly done, it keeps you warm and full all night.

Yeah for Brit puddings and pies: convenient, cheap if you make them yourself, and good fuel food. Plus they are yummy.

Till-Troll

@el_rezzo: how many heart attacks have you had so far?

El Patricko

My stepfather is from wales. He enjoys the yorkshire puddings. I don't understand why they are called puddings. Don't care for them myself.

However, I thank him for introducing me to this dessert: The Trifle *angels singing*. Do yourself a favor and try it.

CaptLtrl

I work at a pizza shop so 4 nights a week I take pizza home. BBQ and Bacon with Cheese base with Mushroom/Onion/Chicken as the pizza with cheese on top makes a great pizzas (last afew days too:)).

el_rezzo

@nxp3: It's savoury rather than sweet, and it is in no way disgusting. It's one of those foods that is hard not to like. You either like them or love them.

will

People who say that Britain has no good food are idiots

*nips out for a deep-fried Mars Bar*

phicaluk

hmm..that yorkshire pudding does sound good.It's Mexican Food day in the office today..can't wait.

enewtabie

Is it weird that at first I read the headline "Luke's Diner," which I thought was a reference to the character and establishment from Gilmore Girls? And if I said it was my fiance that watched the show and not me, would anybody believe it? No? Ok...

karmaghost

@karmaghost: I was about to post the same comment, But I admit I love that show, it's poignant and well-crafted, like that blue chick in Mass Effect

Inzoum

@TokeYo:
Whoah, didn't realize people were putting sugar in their pancake mix.
Cut that from your Yorkshire mix too.
This is savory after-all not sweet.

TokeYo

Yorkshire + Hubby's Mum's Gravy = Ten Levels Of Extreme Awesome Deliciousness.

(Which is great considering I never had a Yorkshire before meeting the hubby)

MelodyKitn

OK! Yorkshire puddings is it? then gather round.

For a world class Toad in the Hole (a Yorshire pudding based meal) take some good quality beef or pork sausages (enough for a few per-person and bake them in an oven proof dish along with a chopped onion for about 30-40 minutes (gas mark 6).
Add your Yorkshire pudding mix (the same as pancakes just a little less milk and a little more flower so it's slightly thicker) to the oven proof dish which should have some oil in it from the sausages (if not add a little oil and heat it up for a few minutes or everything will go wrong).
Make sure there's enough mix to fill the dish 1cm deep.
Return the dish to the oven and cook for a further 15 minutes or until the edges of the Yorshire pudding are a dark brown and golden brown in the center.
Serve with a good beef/pork based gravy (depending on sausage type) and be happy.

Caution! don't open the oven door too early or the pudding will deflate, making you unhappy!

TokeYo

Ah, pudding. Our definition is COMPLETELY different here in the states. Yorkshire, Figgy - it's all good.

That said, how can you have any pudding, if you don't eat your meat?

:)

Spoony Bard

for everyone this is what it looks like. Tastes even better.

[www.yorkshiremixture.co.uk]

Jambolia

Yorkshire Puds are amazing they go with nearly any meat. Ohhh makes me wish for some roast beef and roast 'tatoes, and yorkshire puds *drool*

Jambolia

I could kill for some shepherds pie about now. D:

Witzbold

@Witzbold: oh man, shepherd's pie...i haven't had that in a long time..

..great..now i'm torn on what i want to cook tonight!

JerrD74: hates the media

@Jambolia: i take it you just pour your gravy of choice into/over those??

I'm definitely considering making this meal tonight as now i'm pretty damn hungry haha

JerrD74: hates the media

@1981suede: Exactly. No peeking and the oil's gotta sizzle.

My mom would whomp up Yorkshire pudding for Christmas (and no one in our family is directly from Britain) and then I went to England and she was happy when I reported that she got it right, hers tasted like native.

Prefer white pudding to black.

Evil Tortie's Mom

Oh man, I want a roast dinner now. And it's like...nearly midnight. Weirdest craving yet.

TearsandScreams

Aww man yorkshire pud always reminds me of my grandma :( No-one can make any better. Same goes for christmas cake/pud scones and shepards pie. Although my mother does come very close. God i love being English.

Cchrist

Its not BAKED in gravy. its SERVED with gravy. Come on people, cant you google something before commenting?

Luke Plunkett