Foodie question. Yorkshire pudding British food.?

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Why is it called pudding when it is more on the lines of bread? They are tasty when prepared correctly. If you know why pudding instead of yorkshire bread.

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The English are using an older meaning of the word, "pudding." A pudding is a steamed dish with contents that swell during heating, not the chocolatey glop that we eat.

From the Online Etymological Dictionary:

c.1305, "a kind of sausage: the stomach or one of the entrails of a pig, sheep, etc., stuffed with minced meat, suet, seasoning, boiled and kept till needed," perhaps from a W.Gmc. stem *pud- "to swell" (cf. O.E. puduc "a wen," Westphalian dial. puddek "lump, pudding," Low Ger. pudde-wurst "black pudding," Eng. dial. pod "belly," also cf. pudgy). Other possibility is that it is from O.Fr. boudin "sausage," from V.L. *botellinus, from L. botellus "sausage" (change of Fr. b- to Eng. p- presents difficulties, but cf. purse). The modern sense had emerged by 1670, from extension to other foods boiled or steamed in a bag or sack. Ger. pudding, Fr. pouding, Swed. pudding, Ir. putog are from Eng. Puddinghead "amiable stupid person" is attested from 1851.

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Answer 2

i don'y know why it's pudding not bread but maybe it's because it is so similar to pancake batter, but i can tell you this it can make an excellent pudding if you hgeat it up, pour over some syrub and cream it take sooooooooo good! also i just had a thought when writing there, 'pudding' i think may mean like a mixture of different ingredients, as your can get friut pudding, black pudding, white pudding, which are no where near desserts or like bread wither, so thats another possible thought! have a good day x

Answer 3

Yorkshire pudding is an English savoury dish made from batter. It is most often served with roast beef, or any meal in which there is gravy, or on its own. Gravy is considered an essential accompaniment by many, and when the pudding is eaten as a starter, onion gravy is usually favoured above other alternatives. It may have originated in Yorkshire, but is popular across the whole of the United Kingdom.

Yorkshire pudding is cooked by pouring batter into a preheated greased baking tin containing very hot oil and baking at very high heat until it has risen. A fine recipe uses 1/3 c flour and 1/3 c milk per egg.

This dish resembles that of an american "pop-over" crispy on the outside and soft and pudding like on the inside i believe that is why its called "Yorkshire Pudding"

"Should they be crisp or soft? The latter for me is a totally personal issue, some like them soft, some crisp on the outside and soft in the middle. When you lash them with a gravy does it make any real difference? " This was a quote from an English cook.

hope this helps. good luck.

Answer 4

i don't know, but here is my theory in olden days they used to stuff them with real yorkshire doggies, the practice eventually stopped after there was a shortage of dogs so they switched to bread to repent for their sins...lol it may not be acurate but it's helleva creative you have to give me that...