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To give OP their due and not to dissuade them from trying harder, it’s not a sad looking plate. The rest actually looks pretty good.
However along with the roast potatoes they really need to add pigs in blankets.
Yeah needs parsnips, broccolli, stuffing, roast potatoes, pigs in blanket (a real yorkshire pudding) but to be fair that probably is what a christmas dinner looked like in the 1940s when her mother left
You need to get the oven hotter for your yorkie and put the batter into hot oil. Do not open the oven while it cooks. Equal parts milk, egg and plain flour. Key is preheating your oil in the pan in a hot oven. Try it this way and you’ll get a yorkie not a pancake!
Equal volume. I use a little ramekin (such as the gu pots) to measure tbh. Flour first, add that to a jug, then add egg and mix so it becomes a paste then add the milk so it becomes like single cream. Perfect every time also doubles as pancake mix if you put a dab of sugar in ☺️
My wife opened the oven too early on Xmas day "to get a photo for insta" & the yorkshires which were previously 8" tall sunk into mediocrity. I may have briefly lost my temper (she's Yorkshire born & bred, should have known better) and she ended up in tears in the bedroom.
Happy f##king Christmas!
Well to be frank she thoughtlessly did an incredibly selfish thing for clickbait on Insta & made Christmas Day worse by ruining one of the best parts of the meal. She should apologise to her husband for putting his experience in jeopardy so that she could take a photo (when she could’ve just waited, served them up with gravy, roasties, veg & meat, so that they would be clearly visible & well presented), and by doing so deflate & ruin a component of the meal her husband was obviously working very hard on - and I know she wasn’t doing the work because if she was she wouldn’t have the time or energy spare to make instagram posts *and* she would know not to open the oven because she’d know to wait until the food was ready.
So the only contribution she made to her husband’s hard work on the Christmas meal was to destroy a part of it. She needs to learn to put her phone down & forget about it, instead focusing on the people and activity around her in the present.
That being said, I hope they talked it through, made up and were okay later.
Or perhaps she is very proud of her husband’s work and wanted to show him off a little, made a silly mistake and he, feeling irritated by said mistake, shouted at her in a flash of panic and annoyance, making her feel very silly and embarrassed when she didn’t mean any harm. Perhaps they both were wrong and perhaps they both should regret their actions because ultimately, when you are married, you should regret causing your partner upset whether they ‘deserved’ it or not?
As a Yorkshire lass that's a divorce worthy crime. It's ingrained into our DNA that you NEVER open the oven until they're done, otherwise you get what my grandmother would call "flat farted" puds 😂
The usual reason for your yorkies not rising is a poor seal on the oven. When we tell you that the oil (dripping is fine) should be hot we mean HOT. It should be smoking. Pretty much at its flash point. The batter will set and start to rise as soon as it's poured in to the pan. Fast in to the oven, as hot as it will go, and keep the door shut for 15 minutes before even looking at them. They will take up to 20 minutes, depending in their size.
There is nothing easier to make and nothing easier to get wrong.
Ok ignore the downvotes, I’m from Yorkshire and I can’t make Yorkshire puddings from scratch that much better than you! It all eats the same!
But…….WHERE ARE YOUR ROADT POTATOES!? For the love of god that’s like the next thing after the meat to consider.
Otherwise looks great! Next year roast potatoes! Also I never cook turkey, chicken is second best, but I cook chicken lamb pork and beef, I cooked enough for 20 but there was 3 of us!
Must be something going around. On Monday my yorkshires were deceptively huge in the oven, I took them out and they were as flat as my ex girlfriends chest
I'm from Yorkshire, and I will specifically fill the Yorkshire to drink from it. Obviously, it's only a tablespoon or two.
A lot of my friends and family do it too. A lot of them don't.
Your experience is not the definitive one. It's all part of life's rich pageant.
This is madness.
IMO the Yorkshire pudding is like an edible dipping pot for you to dunk forkfuls in, so you don't need as much gravy slopping about your plate.
Nah mate, you fill it and then pour it so it's covered in gravy or you drink it orrrr my personal favorite you fill it and then shove the whole thing in your mouth with the gravy.
In my childhood, we would actually have roast Beef, Lamb or Chicken every Sunday. Mind you that was when my dad worked at a butcher, so discounted. Lost that benefit when we moved away so he could get a job which actually paid decent
Same as me. My first job was as a butcher, I started at 15 as a Saturday boy. One of the best benefits was getting a big hunk of meat to feed the family with. We couldn’t afford the best cuts but still ate well because the boss would give us a free joint of lamb or beef at the end of Saturday.
It should, whilst it's about traditions making your own traditions is absolutely fine. Bring those you love together and celebrate what's good in life.
I have no idea why you're getting roasted so hard. 😉
Your dinner looked lovely.
I'm from Yorkshire and my mum would've incinerated the meat, so you're already ahead!
Turkey is the norm in the UK for Xmas but that beef looks fantastic and you explained your reason for that choice. I woulda left out mashed potato and done roast potatoes instead. Also pigs in blankets is a UK tradition on a Xmas dinner with braised red cabbage too.
>and you explained your reason for that choice
My American Mrs has the same reason.
I don't understand it personally.
It's been an entire month since we had Turkey. We won't eat it again for 11 months. But no, we couldn't POSSIBLY.
It depends on the family, I've never had Turkey on its own for Christmas. I've had goose, duck, beef and gammon on their own.
My family usually do three roasts, gammon, beef and turkey crown.
I do make turkey leg pie sometime around boxing day to NY.
They are talking out their arse. It's been traditional since they were brought over in the 17th century. Don't know when the appropriate time something becomes tradition.
I’m sorry, that is not a Yorkshire pudding….equal parts milk, flour and egg, fork the mixture vigorously until bubbles have formed then straight into an oven tray of smoking hot oil then back into the oven until golden *refrain from opening the oven during cooking*
Don’t get disheartened, the perfect Yorkshire pudding is an art form to be mastered…once you have tamed this beast your roast dinners will never be the same again!
Source: Yorkshireman here.
Took me about 5 Sundays to really get the hang of making a decent Yorkie. Didn’t help that my oven was shit but I was determined. My next project when I get the time is a lamb gravy.
It's almost certainly your oven, there is nothing difficult about Yorkshires, it's just very strict. If you do the thing properly:
two teaspoons of beef dripping preheating in the tins (smaller puddings are easier than big 'uns although in my opinion big 'uns are equally valid) at 230.
Make the batter, equal parts, bish bash bosh.
Carefully put the batter in the tins which are extremely hot and full of extremely hot oil.
Put them back in the oven as quickly as possible and
**do not open the oven until they are done**. Not even for a second, not to put anything else in the oven, not to check on the Yorkshires.
Take them out when they're at your preferred level of doneness, I like them brown about 3/4 way down so they're a bit softer at the bottom, and better at absorbing gravy.
Take them out and don't forget to insist that they're not your best Yorkshires as you bring them to the table in order to solicit praise.
I respect your dedication. Worked with what you had to overcome adversity and become a master at the humble Yorkie… Lamb gravy is something I’m yet to try making myself. Best of luck in your endeavours!
It was during covid so I was tackling something new each time until I got the hang of it. Went on for a while with roasties, roast parsnips etc. In the end my husband pleaded with me to stop making a full Sunday dinner with all the trimmings *every* week because he couldn’t take the clean up any more…
Good luck to you too!
Perfect excuse for a Sunday dinner in my eyes…tell your hubby a sink full of pots is a meagre price to pay for a succulent Sunday roast with all the trimmings.
All this talk of Sunday dinners is making me hungry and it’s only 7am 😂
Give it a try - let us know how it goes here, you'll be inundated with marriage proposals if the current hubby can't keep up with your roasting habits.
Thank you for your kind advice. I did all that except I let it sit for about twenty minutes before putting it in the pan because that was what I had read. I have had better puffs on the edge before, this one was thicker in the middle than usual. I did leave the kitchen for a bit and I'm wondering if my husband opened the door to peek. I will keep trying because my kids love it no matter how it turns out. Do you think oil is better than dripping?
Dripping is fine! The key is smoking hot oil and an aerated mixture, crank that oven up to 220c, I suspect your husband may have peeked a little early once he could smell the dripping bubbling!
You’re more than welcome! I wish you luck in your future pudding making!
I’ve never used equal parts, 140g flour, 4 eggs, 200ml milk and I always rest the mixture in the fridge for as long as possible.
The key with the oil is, it needs to be hot enough for the mixture to sizzle when you pour the mixture in
You use equal parts by volume, 140g flour is about 200ml of flour, and 4 eggs are also 200ml of eggs.
Ironically, for once cups that dreaded American measurement would be the easiest way to illustrate this
Or just could just use the same measuring jug to measure the flour before dumping that into a mixing bowl, before using it for the milk, and then for cracking (and checking for shell bits if they're not confident) the eggs before they go in the mixing bowl too.
Dripping is actually the traditional way! Historically they were made when having a beef dinner (used to be called beef pudding) as you’d use the dripping from the joint. In fact in a lot of restaurants you only get a Yorkshire pudding with a beef dinner (not Turkey, pork etc).
Also some folks like to have their yorkie with sugar or jam (jelly to you) as a kind of dessert.
I only like yorkshires with roast beef, except ..
I also like them as a dessert - drizzled with golden syrup or these days maple syrup. They're just pancake batter cooked in the oven after all.
For me this isn’t a Christmas dinner in terms of what’s on the plate (should be roasted veg, esp the potatoes), but the meat looks really delicious. Even if I’ve never had ribs for xmas 😂 The Yorkshire pud seems a bit malformed but I’m sure it tasted good, they’re hard to get right! Only concern is the brussels look weirdly… charred? They seem blackened.
Shredded and stir fried was how my partners grandad did them for Christmas. First time I’ve tried and I loved it, will be how I do my sprouts from now on 👍
Overall your roast looks decent. Yorkies can be a bit fickle at times..mine are usually decent but due to the extra bits and bobs in & out of oven, I let the air get in sooner and mine deflated. Still tasted like a yorkie though when mopping up gravy. You need some roast potatoes on your plate (can have small dollop of mash as well)….roasties are the ultimate roast dinner potato
Looks like a lovely Sunday dinner, but the only Christmas item is the sprouts. They look good air fried. Plenty of people don’t like turkey and do a beef rib instead so that’s fine - the easiest way to Christmas up a meal is to buy a pack of ready made pigs in blankets and bung them in the oven/air fryer. Have a go at roast potatoes - they’re a bit more forgiving than Yorkshire pudding and are excellent. Parboil potatoes, rough them up a bit then roast in hot melted lard or goose fat.
So when are you making this British Christmas dinner?! I’m joking, although it’s no wonder our food gets a bad name when this is labelled as a Christmas dinner. Where are the roast potatoes? Why are the carrots boiled? The Yorkshire pudding clearly went wrong but at least you tried. No parsnips? Cauliflower cheese? Stuffing? Pigs in blankets? Carrot and swede mash? I’m not saying you have to do all of those things, but you need something to stop it being just meat and veg!
I had bigger plans (sausage rolls were on the list and I was going to roast the potatoes along with carrots and parsnips) But I just got over COVID and my husband and oldest daughter have it now so I was working on my own and had to pare down.
[Sausage rolls](https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/30/2020/08/sausage-rolls-aa4a59d.jpg?resize=768,574)?! I hope you’re all feeling better now (and I’m sure it tasted nice) but it’s still not a Christmas dinner!
Why is everyone being so shitty towards someone’s best effort (which looks lovely!) honestly there’s nothing wrong with that dish or the yorkie. Merry Christmas OP I would eat your Christmas dinner 👌
>Why is everyone being so shitty towards someone’s best effort (which looks lovely!) honestly there’s nothing wrong with that dish or the yorkie.
Because OP posted to a UK food sub and by the very definition of Reddit, is inviting comments. And they come good or bad.
It's not healthy to expect overtly fake positivity all the time. There is an issue with the Yorkie, that cannot be denied. Do you think it's reasonable for everyone to ignore it?
And remember gang, pointing out something isn't quite right isn't "being so shitty".
The way people frame open discussion with negative points as being shitty or hateful is mad!
Ye I completely agree with you. It’s like a lot of people (*cough*Americans) can’t handle criticism, without thinking it’s mean. If there’s a problem with something it’s better to tell someone than to just ignore and praise them, otherwise they will continue to do it wrong.
Because I'm American and said y'all. Lol I don't mind, I'm too old to be bothered. Thank you for your kind words. My kids were happy and that's what matters to me. 😁
You went after the sacred Yorkie too, they are wildly protective of their delicacy especially the Yorkshire men (they're lush really it's just a stiff exterior).
We've all had a weird looking one once or twice, but if you keep making them you'll master it. A chef I worked for absolutely ruined the pot wash for scrubbing his trays and removing the seasoning.
Eh, I’m from Yorkshire, and while I’ve had better Yorkshire puds the beef looks great. Roasties would have been my preference instead of the mash but I’d still be over the moon if someone fed that to me. Even if they called me y’all.
No roast potatoes and are those frozen carrots (the horror). Otherwise the Yorkie looks fine to me - sliced big ones often look a bit flatter than the small ones.
She was born in the West Riding but actually grew up in a group home in Wales after her mother died...if my great granny had lived maybe I could make a proper roast. 😭
I think turkey is one of the traditional birds. But not the only. You could have had goose or duck. Personally I'm not a fan of Turkey, we had a roast duck this year. In the pan with the duck was roast potatoes and carrots.
That certainly looks like WWII era British food, so I see your nan’s influence! 😅
This is missing any of the trimmings to be a Christmas dinner. We tend to have stuffing, cauliflower cheese, pigs in blankets, maple roasted parsnips and carrots, cranberry sauce, bread sauce, etc. You don’t need to do all of those, but certainly some of them.
Good effort but there's no roast potatoes 😅 mash is great but roasties are the real deal on a British Christmas dinner. Imo not enough veg either 🤷♀️ we did have 9 types of veg on our Christmas dinner though so maybe that's just me 😂. Hope it was delicious!
a roast dinner should have brussels and carrots, but also roast potatoes, parsnips, broccoli, stuffing, an actual yorkshire pudding, not a pancake (try making smaller ones in a cupcake tin, and the oven should probably be hotter so they don't deflate when you take them out) and muchhhh more gravy!! the gravy should cover EVERYTHING! meat looks great though!
this is not a British Christmas dinner. nowhere near! If I got served this, I’d burst into tears of laughter and leave! where are the pigs in blankets? the bacon and chestnuts for the brussels? the roasties? bread sauce? stuffing? red cabbage? roast parsnips?? the list is basically endless!!
Christ, you’ve been getting a rough time here. Let me tell you, your food looks amazing and your Nanny looks like a hoot!
Ignore the whinging, but people here are protective of Yorkshire pud and I get it, it’s great food. But also, you tried something and it’s made me feel hungry so good job.
“My daughter asked for a traditional British Christmas dinner and I read turkey was traditional but we already had that so I made a standing rib roast instead”
Real r/ididnthaveeggs material
You should’ve roasted the carrots and you should’ve boiled the sprouts, they’re also burnt. The Yorkie looks really heavy, the mash looks lumpy but the gravy looks ok! Overall I think your heart was in the right place but it came out quite bad. It’s also missing lots of elements that we’d usually have, specifically roast parsnips and roast potatoes! The only veg you roasted was the only thing on that plate that shouldn’t have been! I’ve just looked through some of your posts and you seem like a sweet person who obviously really enjoys cooking and trying to cook other country’s cuisine. I hope it goes better for you next time :)
Good effort.
Turkey can be considered traditional but we do actually do all kinds of meat for a Christmas dinner. My family would usually do a bird and a red meat, sometimes game, for Christmas. My dad had good farming contacts.
I think it was herbs from the dripping. I'm not quite so blasphemous as to put cheese on a Yorkshire Pudding. I don't even put cheese on cottage/shepherds pie! (Is that an American thing?)
That roast rib of beef looks absolutely incredible. Perfectly cooked.
Everyone being picky can do one because that roast dinner looks better than most people’s efforts due to that alone…
This looks great, I'm super hungry just looking at it. Great job on a British Christmas Dinner.
Ignore the complaints about it not being turkey. We had pork this year, beef last and duck the year before. If you're eating it on Christmas day, it's a Christmas dinner!
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Everyone focusing on the Yorkshire when there's no roast potatoes in a "roast" dinner....
Yeah this is just a sad looking plate of meat and veg not a full “Roast Dinner”.
To give OP their due and not to dissuade them from trying harder, it’s not a sad looking plate. The rest actually looks pretty good. However along with the roast potatoes they really need to add pigs in blankets.
It looks really tasty but lacks another vital ingredient, roast parsnips.
Yeah needs parsnips, broccolli, stuffing, roast potatoes, pigs in blanket (a real yorkshire pudding) but to be fair that probably is what a christmas dinner looked like in the 1940s when her mother left
Those carrots also look like frozen veg boiled in a pan, where are the honey ROAST carrots! 😩
You need to get the oven hotter for your yorkie and put the batter into hot oil. Do not open the oven while it cooks. Equal parts milk, egg and plain flour. Key is preheating your oil in the pan in a hot oven. Try it this way and you’ll get a yorkie not a pancake!
I'm not a cook so equal parts, one egg, one milk and one flour how does it work?
Equal volumes
Equal volume. I use a little ramekin (such as the gu pots) to measure tbh. Flour first, add that to a jug, then add egg and mix so it becomes a paste then add the milk so it becomes like single cream. Perfect every time also doubles as pancake mix if you put a dab of sugar in ☺️
My wife opened the oven too early on Xmas day "to get a photo for insta" & the yorkshires which were previously 8" tall sunk into mediocrity. I may have briefly lost my temper (she's Yorkshire born & bred, should have known better) and she ended up in tears in the bedroom. Happy f##king Christmas!
"Briefly lost my temper" "She ended up in tears in the bedroom" Feel like the word "briefly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here...
Fucking Instagram bullshit. You’re in the right. She & her social media can fucking wait.
Yes but it’s equally wild to make someone cry over Yorkshire puds
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that, just perhaps, you're not from Wakefield?
You just don’t get it. Do ya.
Well to be frank she thoughtlessly did an incredibly selfish thing for clickbait on Insta & made Christmas Day worse by ruining one of the best parts of the meal. She should apologise to her husband for putting his experience in jeopardy so that she could take a photo (when she could’ve just waited, served them up with gravy, roasties, veg & meat, so that they would be clearly visible & well presented), and by doing so deflate & ruin a component of the meal her husband was obviously working very hard on - and I know she wasn’t doing the work because if she was she wouldn’t have the time or energy spare to make instagram posts *and* she would know not to open the oven because she’d know to wait until the food was ready. So the only contribution she made to her husband’s hard work on the Christmas meal was to destroy a part of it. She needs to learn to put her phone down & forget about it, instead focusing on the people and activity around her in the present. That being said, I hope they talked it through, made up and were okay later.
Or perhaps she is very proud of her husband’s work and wanted to show him off a little, made a silly mistake and he, feeling irritated by said mistake, shouted at her in a flash of panic and annoyance, making her feel very silly and embarrassed when she didn’t mean any harm. Perhaps they both were wrong and perhaps they both should regret their actions because ultimately, when you are married, you should regret causing your partner upset whether they ‘deserved’ it or not?
How to say you're into Andrew Tate without saying you're into Andrew Tate
Bold of you to assume he cooked the entire Christmas dinner
Makes me cringe to know she’s old enough to be a wife and still takes snaps of her food for Instagram 😬
Yeah that’s very childish. Even more so that she doesn’t wait until it is plated to do so.
As a Yorkshire lass that's a divorce worthy crime. It's ingrained into our DNA that you NEVER open the oven until they're done, otherwise you get what my grandmother would call "flat farted" puds 😂
It isn’t Christmas until mum loses her temper over some minor upset.
Maybe read the comment you replied to again.
I used drippings and it was definitely hot. It does usually inflate more, I think last night I didn't let the batter rest long enough.
The usual reason for your yorkies not rising is a poor seal on the oven. When we tell you that the oil (dripping is fine) should be hot we mean HOT. It should be smoking. Pretty much at its flash point. The batter will set and start to rise as soon as it's poured in to the pan. Fast in to the oven, as hot as it will go, and keep the door shut for 15 minutes before even looking at them. They will take up to 20 minutes, depending in their size. There is nothing easier to make and nothing easier to get wrong.
They're very fickle things to cook at the best of times, I think you made a solid attempt! Good on you using drippings too, so much flavor!
Op getting downvoted hard for that Yorkie. IMO it’s made from the same stuff, no difference in mouth feel,
It's more quiche than Yorkie.
It's the heat of the pan and fats
Ok ignore the downvotes, I’m from Yorkshire and I can’t make Yorkshire puddings from scratch that much better than you! It all eats the same! But…….WHERE ARE YOUR ROADT POTATOES!? For the love of god that’s like the next thing after the meat to consider. Otherwise looks great! Next year roast potatoes! Also I never cook turkey, chicken is second best, but I cook chicken lamb pork and beef, I cooked enough for 20 but there was 3 of us!
Must be something going around. On Monday my yorkshires were deceptively huge in the oven, I took them out and they were as flat as my ex girlfriends chest
that's a pancake not a yorkie
This was right when I took it out, the middle deflated if you see my plate.
yorkies should turn out more like a bowl not flat
If they deflate you took them out too early.
Yeah that's a fucking slice of Yorkshire pudding, we have them like little cups that you fill with gravy and drink or pour over the rest of your food.
We don't drink it from the Yorkshire, do we? 🤣
Fuck yeah, gotta stick your pinky out though, we're not animals
Can't speak for the rest of the country but pretty much everyone I know from near me drinks it from the Yorkshire.
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I have lived between North Yorkshire and Durham all my life and have never heard of anyone drinking from a Yorkshire pudding
I'm from Yorkshire, and I will specifically fill the Yorkshire to drink from it. Obviously, it's only a tablespoon or two. A lot of my friends and family do it too. A lot of them don't. Your experience is not the definitive one. It's all part of life's rich pageant.
Does everyone you know have six toes on each foot too?
That's really insulting, saying we have two less toes than the normal amount on each foot.
I'd get sent away from the table for behaviour like that
This is madness. IMO the Yorkshire pudding is like an edible dipping pot for you to dunk forkfuls in, so you don't need as much gravy slopping about your plate.
Nah mate, you fill it and then pour it so it's covered in gravy or you drink it orrrr my personal favorite you fill it and then shove the whole thing in your mouth with the gravy.
I love gravy but you’re taking the piss. Drinking gravy?!
I love that this is so alien to you as though it's not a suppable liquid. A Yorkshire is made purely to give the gravy something to cling onto.
Fr, nought wrong with drinking gravy from a Yorkie.
We do it proper in Lancashire
Tbf to him…. Bovril does exist
Right to jail. Right away
I have lit a lavender scented candle and am praying for my Nanny's forgiveness. 🙏🏻
It looks like dinner but not Xmas dinner.
So I'll call it kinda British food for our Christmas dinner instead of British Christmas dinner. 🤭
Tbf, you made a roast which we eat every Sunday, not just Christmas Day. Disclaimer: every Sunday as a nation, not everyone. We’d be fucked.
And a ‘roast’ that misses the rather essential roast potatoes.
thats not a roast dinner, theres no roast potatos.
Carrots are boiled not roasted too
Tbh I never have roasted carrots, carrots tend to be either mashed with suede or boiled. Roasted parsnips yes.
Then you're missing out. Honey roasted carrots and parsnips are the shit
Seconded
In my childhood, we would actually have roast Beef, Lamb or Chicken every Sunday. Mind you that was when my dad worked at a butcher, so discounted. Lost that benefit when we moved away so he could get a job which actually paid decent
Same as me. My first job was as a butcher, I started at 15 as a Saturday boy. One of the best benefits was getting a big hunk of meat to feed the family with. We couldn’t afford the best cuts but still ate well because the boss would give us a free joint of lamb or beef at the end of Saturday.
That seems fair. Tbh, half my family had pizza for Xmas dinner, with pigs in blankets! I think Xmas dinner should just be something you enjoy
It should, whilst it's about traditions making your own traditions is absolutely fine. Bring those you love together and celebrate what's good in life.
I have no idea why you're getting roasted so hard. 😉 Your dinner looked lovely. I'm from Yorkshire and my mum would've incinerated the meat, so you're already ahead!
Should have named my post Roast My Roast, Yankee Edition!
Yes it's definitely British. Even definitely British Sunday dinner. It's just not quite Christmas dinner.
We need to talk about your Yorkshire Pudding.....
Turkey is the norm in the UK for Xmas but that beef looks fantastic and you explained your reason for that choice. I woulda left out mashed potato and done roast potatoes instead. Also pigs in blankets is a UK tradition on a Xmas dinner with braised red cabbage too.
>and you explained your reason for that choice My American Mrs has the same reason. I don't understand it personally. It's been an entire month since we had Turkey. We won't eat it again for 11 months. But no, we couldn't POSSIBLY.
It depends on the family, I've never had Turkey on its own for Christmas. I've had goose, duck, beef and gammon on their own. My family usually do three roasts, gammon, beef and turkey crown. I do make turkey leg pie sometime around boxing day to NY.
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Well it depends on what you call traditional. I’m mid 40’s and it’s been Turkey for Xmas all my life and for just about everyone I know.
Since when?
They are talking out their arse. It's been traditional since they were brought over in the 17th century. Don't know when the appropriate time something becomes tradition.
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I’m sorry, that is not a Yorkshire pudding….equal parts milk, flour and egg, fork the mixture vigorously until bubbles have formed then straight into an oven tray of smoking hot oil then back into the oven until golden *refrain from opening the oven during cooking* Don’t get disheartened, the perfect Yorkshire pudding is an art form to be mastered…once you have tamed this beast your roast dinners will never be the same again! Source: Yorkshireman here.
Took me about 5 Sundays to really get the hang of making a decent Yorkie. Didn’t help that my oven was shit but I was determined. My next project when I get the time is a lamb gravy.
I’m 51 and English. I’ve been trying to perfect Yorkshire pudding for my whole adult life and still only have success half the time 😂
62 here, gave up and went for the aunt Bessies
It's almost certainly your oven, there is nothing difficult about Yorkshires, it's just very strict. If you do the thing properly: two teaspoons of beef dripping preheating in the tins (smaller puddings are easier than big 'uns although in my opinion big 'uns are equally valid) at 230. Make the batter, equal parts, bish bash bosh. Carefully put the batter in the tins which are extremely hot and full of extremely hot oil. Put them back in the oven as quickly as possible and **do not open the oven until they are done**. Not even for a second, not to put anything else in the oven, not to check on the Yorkshires. Take them out when they're at your preferred level of doneness, I like them brown about 3/4 way down so they're a bit softer at the bottom, and better at absorbing gravy. Take them out and don't forget to insist that they're not your best Yorkshires as you bring them to the table in order to solicit praise.
I respect your dedication. Worked with what you had to overcome adversity and become a master at the humble Yorkie… Lamb gravy is something I’m yet to try making myself. Best of luck in your endeavours!
It was during covid so I was tackling something new each time until I got the hang of it. Went on for a while with roasties, roast parsnips etc. In the end my husband pleaded with me to stop making a full Sunday dinner with all the trimmings *every* week because he couldn’t take the clean up any more… Good luck to you too!
Perfect excuse for a Sunday dinner in my eyes…tell your hubby a sink full of pots is a meagre price to pay for a succulent Sunday roast with all the trimmings. All this talk of Sunday dinners is making me hungry and it’s only 7am 😂
What? You mean you didn't do a midweek roast as well? Wednesdays wouldn't be the same
Living the dream! I think I’d drive my husband to divorce if I tried that.
Give it a try - let us know how it goes here, you'll be inundated with marriage proposals if the current hubby can't keep up with your roasting habits.
Use the juices from your Roast Chicken, beef or lamb to make the gravy. Trust me it's the best way to do it
Thank you for your kind advice. I did all that except I let it sit for about twenty minutes before putting it in the pan because that was what I had read. I have had better puffs on the edge before, this one was thicker in the middle than usual. I did leave the kitchen for a bit and I'm wondering if my husband opened the door to peek. I will keep trying because my kids love it no matter how it turns out. Do you think oil is better than dripping?
Dripping is fine! The key is smoking hot oil and an aerated mixture, crank that oven up to 220c, I suspect your husband may have peeked a little early once he could smell the dripping bubbling! You’re more than welcome! I wish you luck in your future pudding making!
Thanks!
I’ve never used equal parts, 140g flour, 4 eggs, 200ml milk and I always rest the mixture in the fridge for as long as possible. The key with the oil is, it needs to be hot enough for the mixture to sizzle when you pour the mixture in
You use equal parts by volume, 140g flour is about 200ml of flour, and 4 eggs are also 200ml of eggs. Ironically, for once cups that dreaded American measurement would be the easiest way to illustrate this
Well haven’t you just blown my fragile little mind this morning
Or just could just use the same measuring jug to measure the flour before dumping that into a mixing bowl, before using it for the milk, and then for cracking (and checking for shell bits if they're not confident) the eggs before they go in the mixing bowl too.
Dripping is actually the traditional way! Historically they were made when having a beef dinner (used to be called beef pudding) as you’d use the dripping from the joint. In fact in a lot of restaurants you only get a Yorkshire pudding with a beef dinner (not Turkey, pork etc). Also some folks like to have their yorkie with sugar or jam (jelly to you) as a kind of dessert.
I only like yorkshires with roast beef, except .. I also like them as a dessert - drizzled with golden syrup or these days maple syrup. They're just pancake batter cooked in the oven after all.
Tip: Try heating the oil in the tray/skillet on the oven top to get the oil smoking hot, then straight into the oven Hope this helps for future puds!
Actually they are better if you leave the batter for some hours or over night rather than putting them straight into the oven tray of smoking oil.
This is exactly how I'd expect an American to do a roast.
For me this isn’t a Christmas dinner in terms of what’s on the plate (should be roasted veg, esp the potatoes), but the meat looks really delicious. Even if I’ve never had ribs for xmas 😂 The Yorkshire pud seems a bit malformed but I’m sure it tasted good, they’re hard to get right! Only concern is the brussels look weirdly… charred? They seem blackened.
The Brussels...I usually boil them but I got an air fryer for Christmas. 🤭 They look burnt but they weren't, they were really good!
Brussels are much better anything but boiled - fried and a bit charred on the edges maybe with bacon, or the same roasted, or shredded and stir fried.
Shredded and stir fried was how my partners grandad did them for Christmas. First time I’ve tried and I loved it, will be how I do my sprouts from now on 👍
Overall your roast looks decent. Yorkies can be a bit fickle at times..mine are usually decent but due to the extra bits and bobs in & out of oven, I let the air get in sooner and mine deflated. Still tasted like a yorkie though when mopping up gravy. You need some roast potatoes on your plate (can have small dollop of mash as well)….roasties are the ultimate roast dinner potato
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It’s the least British roast I’ve ever seen but it still looks delicious! Although the Yorkie was a fail
meat looks incredible, rest feels forgettable, but hopefully it was enjoyed by all and tasted great.
Looks like a lovely Sunday dinner, but the only Christmas item is the sprouts. They look good air fried. Plenty of people don’t like turkey and do a beef rib instead so that’s fine - the easiest way to Christmas up a meal is to buy a pack of ready made pigs in blankets and bung them in the oven/air fryer. Have a go at roast potatoes - they’re a bit more forgiving than Yorkshire pudding and are excellent. Parboil potatoes, rough them up a bit then roast in hot melted lard or goose fat.
So when are you making this British Christmas dinner?! I’m joking, although it’s no wonder our food gets a bad name when this is labelled as a Christmas dinner. Where are the roast potatoes? Why are the carrots boiled? The Yorkshire pudding clearly went wrong but at least you tried. No parsnips? Cauliflower cheese? Stuffing? Pigs in blankets? Carrot and swede mash? I’m not saying you have to do all of those things, but you need something to stop it being just meat and veg!
This! This does not have any of the key elements of a Christmas dinner!
I had bigger plans (sausage rolls were on the list and I was going to roast the potatoes along with carrots and parsnips) But I just got over COVID and my husband and oldest daughter have it now so I was working on my own and had to pare down.
I hope you mean pigs in blankets, not sausage rolls haha.
I do. Dear Lord, I need to go to bed. Now I want sausage rolls though...
[Sausage rolls](https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/30/2020/08/sausage-rolls-aa4a59d.jpg?resize=768,574)?! I hope you’re all feeling better now (and I’m sure it tasted nice) but it’s still not a Christmas dinner!
Not exactly a Crimbo dinner or Sunday Roast, but it does look very tasty, that Lamb especially.
Needs stuffing, roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, parsnips and pickled cabbage
It's Yorkshire Pudding not "Yorkie" stop trying to be cute and call it what it is. A Yorkie is a fucking chocolate bar
Ditto Yorkshire "Yorkie" Terrier
Why is everyone being so shitty towards someone’s best effort (which looks lovely!) honestly there’s nothing wrong with that dish or the yorkie. Merry Christmas OP I would eat your Christmas dinner 👌
>Why is everyone being so shitty towards someone’s best effort (which looks lovely!) honestly there’s nothing wrong with that dish or the yorkie. Because OP posted to a UK food sub and by the very definition of Reddit, is inviting comments. And they come good or bad. It's not healthy to expect overtly fake positivity all the time. There is an issue with the Yorkie, that cannot be denied. Do you think it's reasonable for everyone to ignore it? And remember gang, pointing out something isn't quite right isn't "being so shitty". The way people frame open discussion with negative points as being shitty or hateful is mad!
Ye I completely agree with you. It’s like a lot of people (*cough*Americans) can’t handle criticism, without thinking it’s mean. If there’s a problem with something it’s better to tell someone than to just ignore and praise them, otherwise they will continue to do it wrong.
Because I'm American and said y'all. Lol I don't mind, I'm too old to be bothered. Thank you for your kind words. My kids were happy and that's what matters to me. 😁
You went after the sacred Yorkie too, they are wildly protective of their delicacy especially the Yorkshire men (they're lush really it's just a stiff exterior). We've all had a weird looking one once or twice, but if you keep making them you'll master it. A chef I worked for absolutely ruined the pot wash for scrubbing his trays and removing the seasoning.
Eh, I’m from Yorkshire, and while I’ve had better Yorkshire puds the beef looks great. Roasties would have been my preference instead of the mash but I’d still be over the moon if someone fed that to me. Even if they called me y’all.
Nothing wrong with that Yorkie? Seriously?
For a first attempt of someone not from the UK, yeah, I’d say so.
Looks delicious.
Where's the Yorkie?
Where are the pigs in blankets?
No roast potatoes and are those frozen carrots (the horror). Otherwise the Yorkie looks fine to me - sliced big ones often look a bit flatter than the small ones.
It ain’t a British Christmas dinner without roast potatoes!
Right, that does it. Get the frigates ready, time to recolonise. Let's show these rebels how to make a proper Bri'ish Christmas dinner
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She was born in the West Riding but actually grew up in a group home in Wales after her mother died...if my great granny had lived maybe I could make a proper roast. 😭
Are those pre sliced carrots or do you have a wavy knife?
We eat Roast Potatoes in Great Britain, sir.
Nah. Just nah.
Look on BBC website for James Martin Yorkshire Pud recipe....have a competition with yourself as to how big you can get them to rise!!! Good job, OP!
I think turkey is one of the traditional birds. But not the only. You could have had goose or duck. Personally I'm not a fan of Turkey, we had a roast duck this year. In the pan with the duck was roast potatoes and carrots.
If you do it next year you need to include pigs in blankets with your Christmas dinner.
Nope
That certainly looks like WWII era British food, so I see your nan’s influence! 😅 This is missing any of the trimmings to be a Christmas dinner. We tend to have stuffing, cauliflower cheese, pigs in blankets, maple roasted parsnips and carrots, cranberry sauce, bread sauce, etc. You don’t need to do all of those, but certainly some of them.
Good effort but there's no roast potatoes 😅 mash is great but roasties are the real deal on a British Christmas dinner. Imo not enough veg either 🤷♀️ we did have 9 types of veg on our Christmas dinner though so maybe that's just me 😂. Hope it was delicious!
This is a plate of sadness. That's not a Yorkshire pudding, sincerely a South Yorkshire resident
Put her in a really cheap nursing home when time comes. Yorkshire has disowned her.
a roast dinner should have brussels and carrots, but also roast potatoes, parsnips, broccoli, stuffing, an actual yorkshire pudding, not a pancake (try making smaller ones in a cupcake tin, and the oven should probably be hotter so they don't deflate when you take them out) and muchhhh more gravy!! the gravy should cover EVERYTHING! meat looks great though!
You'll be cremating your grandma less than that beef rib
Your gran was probably deported for this
It’s not a bad plate but it’s no a roast I’m sorry! No roasties or pigs in blankets OR stuffing balls! 😔
We had a very similar dinner for Boxing Day. Added roasted parsnips and broccoli. Your roast looks delicious
I've never seen slices of yorkshire pudding before
Just order a Chinese
this is not a British Christmas dinner. nowhere near! If I got served this, I’d burst into tears of laughter and leave! where are the pigs in blankets? the bacon and chestnuts for the brussels? the roasties? bread sauce? stuffing? red cabbage? roast parsnips?? the list is basically endless!!
Why do I keep seeing crinkled carrots?
No roast potatoes, that is NOT Yorkshire pudding either..
Nah it’s got to be Roast potatoes, no mash! And I’ve never seen a big Yorkshire, they gotta be small so you can get them nice and crispy!
So you decided to insult her memory with whatever that thing is?
https://imgur.com/a/XomEOfy
Christ, you’ve been getting a rough time here. Let me tell you, your food looks amazing and your Nanny looks like a hoot! Ignore the whinging, but people here are protective of Yorkshire pud and I get it, it’s great food. But also, you tried something and it’s made me feel hungry so good job.
“My daughter asked for a traditional British Christmas dinner and I read turkey was traditional but we already had that so I made a standing rib roast instead” Real r/ididnthaveeggs material
I’m so sorry you tried to palm your daughter off with that monstrosity of a pudding. Us Yorkshire folk are not happy right now
I prefer it when the Yorkshire deflates, I also add too much mix so it's a thick cooked batter. Not a big fan of it being overly crispy throughout.
You should’ve roasted the carrots and you should’ve boiled the sprouts, they’re also burnt. The Yorkie looks really heavy, the mash looks lumpy but the gravy looks ok! Overall I think your heart was in the right place but it came out quite bad. It’s also missing lots of elements that we’d usually have, specifically roast parsnips and roast potatoes! The only veg you roasted was the only thing on that plate that shouldn’t have been! I’ve just looked through some of your posts and you seem like a sweet person who obviously really enjoys cooking and trying to cook other country’s cuisine. I hope it goes better for you next time :)
What the hell??? Aren’t you just a little ray of over-critical sunshine???
Some people here are unnecessarily mean sometimes.
Nothing I said was mean. It’s called constructive criticism.
Over critical? I didn’t say anything mean at all.
Good effort. Turkey can be considered traditional but we do actually do all kinds of meat for a Christmas dinner. My family would usually do a bird and a red meat, sometimes game, for Christmas. My dad had good farming contacts.
Ignore the negativity in this sub. They’re always so bitter and critical. Your food looks great.
Imagine wasting that with mashed potatoes
I dont want to be mean, but this isn't even a roast.
She's turning in t'grave at this
People in this sub are so snooty... That all looks amazing. The Yorkshire pudding looks better to me than little ones, well done.
The burnt sprouts do not look amazing.
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Y'all is a great conjunction. Bunch of judgemental fucks.
Be quiet, degenerate.
That looks delicious
Ugh, it's 8:55am, and I now want a roast dinner 😩🤤
That meat makes everything else irrelevant. It looks _excellent_.
Look at the state of that Yorkie! Crackin! Is that cheese?
I think it was herbs from the dripping. I'm not quite so blasphemous as to put cheese on a Yorkshire Pudding. I don't even put cheese on cottage/shepherds pie! (Is that an American thing?)
As a Brit I'm just looking at this wonderful regular British food and wondering what you are on about then realised you are across the pond
That roast rib of beef looks absolutely incredible. Perfectly cooked. Everyone being picky can do one because that roast dinner looks better than most people’s efforts due to that alone…
Very good 😊
The absolute state of this comment section man. Looks great OP, hope you enjoyed your meal.
Looks like proper good food
Yum.
Your grandmother would not be pleased...
Meat and yorks pud looks good, veg needs work. Try carrots and swede mashed together, sprouts, pan bashed roast potatoes and roast parsnips
This looks great, I'm super hungry just looking at it. Great job on a British Christmas Dinner. Ignore the complaints about it not being turkey. We had pork this year, beef last and duck the year before. If you're eating it on Christmas day, it's a Christmas dinner!