Should beans be part of an English fry up? Should Yorkshire puddings be served with any roast?

We never have a full breakfast at home, only when we are on holidays travelling. I’m not a morning person and the thought of a breakfast like that makes me ill. We rarely have Yorkshire puds here - the version we have are little individual puds which are often rather revolting. Nothing like the ones my Yorkshire mum used to make.

RosiesMaw

Has anybody north of the Border mentioned fried fruit cake?
Along with square sausage that was known to feature in some hotels in a *full Scottish*

I think that’s what I know as sliced dumpling Maw. I’ve eaten it fried with breakfast or cold with hot custard as a pudding in various places.

Eat what you like. I always have Yorkshire with sausages, only have baked beans on toast, rarely. I love proper gravy, so have it with most cooked meals.

Yorkshire pudding with sausages and onion gravy is delicious.

My mum was a domestic science teacher and was very particular about things being correct. YPs only with beef! At Christmas some of our relatives liked apple sauce rather than cranberry but she refused to serve it on its own. She baked it in the oven on top of a dish of beetroot as an extra veg. No-one touched the beetroot, just scraped off the (rather pink) apple sauce. She just couldn't bring herself to serve something that wasn't the correct accompaniment!

Has anybody north of the Border mentioned fried fruit cake?
Along with square sausage that was known to feature in some hotels in a full Scottish

As a child, the only time I had Yorkies (my late brother’s late wife always called them this), was when Mum/I visited my late brother/family who lived in Stoke. We never had them in Dundee (no idea why), but in Stoke, I wanted them with every meal, they were so delicious (home made obviously).
I still love them with any roast, especially beef, but only if there’s lots of gravy to go with them.
As for beans, I enjoy them in various meals but not in a cooked b’fast. My perfect b’fast has heaps of mushrooms and tomatoes, plus the usual bacon and sausage,

Thanks M0nica for this recipe! It is exactly the American version of Popovers! I guess I’ve been eating Yorkshire Pudding myself every now and then. Delish!
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My aunty used to make Yorkshire puddings and when cooled off a bit she would trickle golden syrup over them.
Very yummy.
This was just them on their own, not with a roast or anything!

I hate baked beans in any case and they would not appear on any breakfast I served. I can see why it is tempting to have yorkshire puddings with other meats as , when cooked properly they are so good. However my father, as a definite yorkshire man, expected the yorkshire pudding to be served first with the lovely beef gravy, followed by the meat and vegetaables . He hated an over filled plate with the pudding put on top or whatever. We once went for a special treat to a well known pub?restraurant on our way to visit our grandmother for sunday lunch. We ordered the beef of course ,and when the waiter came out with the plates with the yorkshire pudding on top of the rest of the roast ,my father politely , but firmly, told him to take them away and serve it properly with the yorkshire puddings first. This he did do, and my mother was embarrased and said "Oh Harry ...." etc , but you see she was from Lincolnshire so she didnt understand!! I have made many a yorkshire pudding over the years for family friends , and have lived abroad and welcomed many people to try our favourite meal. Sadly I am now a widow and live alone , so rarely do a roast on my own . You cannot get a good roast with a tiny piece of meat. My pet hate is to g o out to a pub for sunday lunch and be served the horrible dry thing that purports to be a yorkshire pudding, but it has not been freshly made but is some frozen rubbish. So I look around to find a good local pub where they do their own good cooking and not only try to go there for the sunday lunch but also try to go there on other occasions to encourage them to keep going.!! When my great aunt was quite old and living alone she used to make a yorkshire pudding and she would have half with her beef and the other half she would eat with sometimes a little syrup drizzleed over it or lemon and a little sugar. As she said , well it is like having pancakes isnt it? Oh dear this is making me feel very hungry and dont think the plate of cereal I am about to eat will give me much pleasure today!!

Gundy yes you are, although unlike a soufle a yorkshire pudding does not deflate much after leaving the oven as the batter has baked crisp and holds its shape, even as it cools

here is a link to a good basic Yorkshire pudding recipe www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/james-martins-yorkshire-puds

Ah, if only I could make a decent Yorkshire pud. We only have them when we go out for Sunday lunch - with beef or lamb.

My Mum made a good Yorkshire pud and any left over from the main course was eaten up with marmalade on top; I can't say I fancy that any more.

I'm vegan - so don't eat dead animals - but I do enjoy beans (home cooked, not tinned) at any time of day - along with Yorkshires, made with the 'juice' of tinned chickpeas as an egg substitute. Both go with almost anything else, I find.

We have yorkshire puds (homemade) with any roast ,also corned beef hash, and beef stew love them. Like baked beans with breakfast or on toast. Oh likes Yorkshire puds with sugar.

Beans are now a part of the ubiquitous ‘ All day breakfast’ , which is an anomaly in itself.
Beef comes with , Yorkshire puddings and horseradish sauce
Chicken with bread sauce and lamb accompanied by mint sauce. That is the was it was, and I believe should be.

Making a correction on my soufflé comment above. Soufflés are a different kind of egg batter than popovers or yorkie puddings.

If you put your batter into a single baking dish or skillet and into the oven - then you’re making *what we call a Dutch Baby*… a pancake of sorts that inflates when you bake and deflates when you take out of the oven.

Right? Am I getting close to describing what may be a Yorkshire Pudding?
USA Gundy

I love beans with my breakfast but hate tinned tomatoes. We always had our Yorkshire Puddings with gravy before the rest of our Sunday dinner which was never beef. These days I never cook a Sunday dinner for the 2 of us but am quite happy to eat a Yorkshire pudding with any roast dinner as long as there's plenty of gravy 😋

Beans…. Only on toast!!!

Yorkshire Puddings… with any roast 😊

For FoxyGloves - and that "Yorkshire pudding . . . .Delicious on its own with gravy!". Years ago we had a short break in Yorkshire, and I think we had half a day at the aquarium in Hull, then came back and stopped for an evening meal at Kinsley Greyhounds, which I'd been recommended to try. We ordered a starter, and a main course (some sort of roast I think), but after the starter, the waitress brought us each a plate with 2 giant Yorkshire puds, filled with gravy. I said, no, sorry, we didn't order them, and she said, "Oh, everybody gets them luv, get em down ya". We were pretty full by the end . . . .

I'm fine with baked beans (I don't like brown or red sauce as some people do) but what is important to me is mushrooms. I judge a hotel as good if it serves mushrooms for breakfast and bad if it doesn't.
Never understand the need for yorkshire puddings although good when filled with vegetables. An old school friend eats them with jam and custard

Ailidh

No and no.

Beans on toast for breakfast - yum.
Beans getting my bacon all beany - yuk.

Yorkshire puddings Only with roast beef and a decent size or more than one, not the piddling little bun tin effort you sometimes get.

And don't get me started on the ubiquity of gravy - why slosh brownness over every roast meal? It should be a discreet pool inside one of the yorkies with roast beef.

IMHO. OVMV. 😋

Beans for breakfast …no.
But all else I totally agree with Ailidh - particularly the gravy comment.
If there MUST be gravy it better be a good tasty pale one…but I prefer all my roasts without and can really then enjoy the roast and accompaniments.

Chacon a son gout…exactly

Well I am certainly in the minority- I don’t like Yorkshire pudding, toad in the hole or pancakes! Batter just doesn’t do it for me! My MiL used to make suet pudding with her roasts, a Devon thing I think, the same reason to fill up tummies! Love beans tho, great comfort food full of protein and fibre - not for breakfast tho.

We don't eat red meat very often so have yorkshire puddings with any other roast meat. My GC love them so there always lots of them - especially with the Christmas lunch. Baked beans are full of protein - and are a free food on Slimming World poached eggs and beans on toast is a healthy meal as is a jacket potato with baked beans. Choose the low sugar/low salt ones.

Come to think of it had Yorkshire pud served with sugar and lemon like pancakes. Yorkshire naturally

We love a fry up for breakfast - sometimes for dinner even. Any combination of hash browns, potato scones, sausages, fried bread, bacon, mushrooms, black pudding, eggs of some description, beans, toast. Depending on what is in the fridge/freezer at the time. But not egg and beans at the same time 😁

With a roast is either Yorkshire Pudding or baked suet but always Yorkshires with beef.

Each to their own and I enjoy reading what other people like to eat, and sometimes the reasons why.