Who invented Yorkshire Pudding?
Who invented Yorkshire Pudding?England’s national dish of Roast Beef and Yorkshire Puddings is recognized across the world but its origins are unknown.Answer: • The first ever recorded recipe appears in a book, The Whole Duty of a Woman in 1737 and listed as A Dripping Pudding – the dripping coming from spit-roast meat. • The next recorded recipe took the strange pudding from local delicacy to become the nation’s favorite dish following publication in The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse in 1747. As one of the most famous food writers of the time, the popularity of the book spread the word of the Yorkshire Pudding. ‘It is an exceeding good Pudding, the Gravy of the Meat eats well with it,’ states Hannah. • Mrs Beeton may have been Britain’s most famous food writer of the 19th century but her recipe omitted one of the fundamental rules for making Yorkshire pudding – the need for the hottest oven possible. The recipe was further wrong by stating to cook the pudding in
