What is a ......

[Workingman]

..... Yorkshire Pudding? *

Is it:
c) batter cooked in the oven?

Batter! Batter?

Who are these people?

God looked down on Yorkshire and said: "These are fine people, My people, they deserve the very best." So he sent out the Archangels Michael and Gabriel to find the finest ingredients for a new food for their plates. They returned with wheat flour from the Vale of York in the East Riding, the whitest free range eggs from the West Riding, salt from the seas that lapped the shores of the North Riding. The milk needed to finish the dish he got from the cows in South Yorkshire.

As they approached God with their produce Gabriel slipped and knocked his and Michael's wares to the floor. Mary quickly scooped up the mess and threw it in the oven to hide it from Joseph.

When Joseph arrived he could smell cooking. "What's fer tea our lass?" he said. Mary replied that it was a new experimental dish. "Well give us a taste then." says Joseph. Hesitantly Mary removes the mess from the oven and to her surprise it has risen and is golden brown. "This is grand." says Joseph, all it needs to be perfect is onion gravy, some roast beef and two veg.

Now you know. Batter my ar5e!

[Weka]

It's "c" over here. It's even found in the famed "Edmonds cook book". Your not a kiwi till you own a copy

But tell me, how on earth is onion gravy made?

[Kaz]

Never had onion gravy? Eee lass tha's never lived

[Workingman]

Onion gravy for Weka.

25g of butter
glug of oil
2 onions sliced into half rings
2 dsp plain flour
750ml (1pt and a bit) beef or chicken stock
couple of glugs of beer (bitter, IPA, stout)
salt & pepper to taste

Heat the oil and butter in a frying pan and brown the onions over a high heat, keep turning them. Turn the heat down and sprinkle over the plain flour and cook for a minute or so, keep turning those onions, Slowly add the stock and bring to a simmer then add the beer salt and pepper and simmer some more.

If you are doing a roast dinner the traditional way is to do all of the above on the hob using the roasting pan with the meat juices. The oil can be done away with and some of the stock can be replaced with water.

[Aggers]

Enough Tom Foolery.

Batter puddings figured prominently as weapons in the third episode of season five of The Goon Show, entitled "The Terror Of Bexhill-on-Sea" or "The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler". The show was first broadcast in 1954. Spike Milligan's script featured a mysterious villain who was prowling the nights hurling freshly baked batter puddings at unsuspecting victims on the southern coast of England in 1941. Also it was referenced in the popular British science fiction show Doctor Who by The 11th Doctor stating that he invented the Yorkshire pudding.

[Weka]

thanks WM. Reciepe now in my menu app. One have this with roast beef I presume? how about lamb, pork and chicken?

(weka embracing her ancestry from many generations ago)

[Workingman]

The 11th Doctor stating that he invented the Yorkshire pudding.

Who?

God gave us the recipe after her experiment with the apple thingy went wrong. She went back to the kitchen, her natural home, and came up with Yorkshire puds,

Weka, the beef version works with red meat - lamb, duck veal, venison - the chicken one goes well with pork and fowl.

[Weka]

duly noted

[Diflower]

My dad, admittedly a food philistine, would have onion sauce with roast lamb - but that's not the same as onion gravy...just to complicate the issue

[Workingman]

Onion sauce is onion gravy avec crème and is tres posh and a bit French.

But then you Southerners are not really English, art thou?