Come to England Mates

~Blog post #3~

April 13, 2015

By: Kelli Gorski

Food cooked in England is similar to the United States. During this blog I will be focusing on the main dish of the Sunday roast with Yorkshire pudding. This meal is mostly eaten on Sundays, but can be made during the week as well. This meal consists of roasted meat, roasted potatoes or sometimes mash potatoes, with Yorkshire pudding, stuffing, vegetables, and gravy. Roasts can be lean, but some British add beef fat into the pan. You get a lot of Yorkshire pudding to fill up your stomach, and have smaller pieces of the meat because it is expensive.

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The Yorkshire pudding origin is unknown. This meal is compared to a less grand form of Christmas dinner. “This tradition is served to all of Europe and other countries that have Christian heritage (Wikipedia).” Some families will leave the meat in the oven until they get home from church and eat right away. Different parts of England cook, and serve this meal in certain ways. In some occasions, this meal is served with one to two glasses of wine. They have enough food for leftovers during the week to make sandwiches with their tea, and to make cottage pie the next day as well.

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Personally, I don’t know if this would be my favorite meal. I am not a huge fan of roast beef, but maybe sometime in the future I will try Yorkshire pudding and will enjoy it. The pudding is suppose to be really good, and can make several foods out of the recipe.

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http://www.food.com/recipe/old-england-traditional-roast-beef-and-yorkshire-pudding-263751

http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Traditional-Sunday-Roast

http://britishfood.about.com/od/england/f/yorkpudds.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_roast