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Yorkshire’s Yorkshire Pudding

The first recipe for “dripping pudding” was published back in 1737, in a book called “The Whole Duty of a Woman,” a guide for women with rules, directions, and observations on a lady’s conduct and behaviour.

My Mother and I laugh about this as we prepare our Sunday Lunch together, at the heart of which is the good old Yorkshire pudding. My Mother has worked for as long as I can remember, she certainly passed on some of her feminist values to me, and as we cook, my Father is doing the ironing, so I’m guessing we may have a slightly different take on the “duty of a woman” than they did back then.

Still, the tradition of a Sunday roast remains, and the star of the show is always the Yorkshire pudding.

Historically, the Yorkshire pudding was served at the beginning of the meal. Using simple and easilyaccessible ingredients, when meat was a lot more scarce than it is now, it was served with gravy as a starter to fill up the hungry Yorkshiremen, who had most likely been working down the mines all day.

Nowadays, it is most often an accompaniment to the Roast Beef Dinner, and although there are some popular ready-made versions, nothing beats the home-made Yorkshire pudding, and in households across England, fights ensue over who gets the last one.

The secret is all in the small details, like not over-mixing the batter, and making sure you don’t open the oven while they are www.beHappyFit.co.uk

Gillie Sutherland grew up in the North of England, born in Leeds, Yorkshire, where she first developed her passion for food, cooking from the age of 3 with her mother, Anne, a life-long foodie and amateur chef.

As part of her work over the last 30 years in health and wellbeing, Gillie learned everything there was to learn about nutrition – particularly about Mindful Eating – and the importance of having a healthy relationship with food.