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Dec 18, 2015 10 years ago
lull
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[item2=dripping pudding]

This is just a silly thing that has bothered me for ages so I thought I would say something. Is the dripping pudding an American version of the Yorkshire pudding?

I mainly ask because the image looks quite similar and I always think how icky a dripping pudding sounds ^_^;

the feedback part is I think it would be nicer called a Yorkshire pudding.

For all those wondering this is a Yorkshire pudding... here

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Dec 18, 2015 10 years ago
Lirikai
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I always thought it was called that because Yorkshire doesn't exist in Subeta and they had to find a slightly different name?

I've just never heard Dripping Pudding used as a name in America either, it's always Yorkshire Pudding here too that I know of.

Dec 18, 2015 10 years ago
Kevin
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Wuf

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I haven't encountered it in america and I've been here my whole life. I am guessing that is what that item is referencing. or something similar. but I don't know of any pudding here in america other than

this image.... apparently pictures are broken

Dec 19, 2015 10 years ago
Loop
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The pudding would have originally been cooked beneath the meat (usually beef) roasting on a spit above a fire. This position would have meant that the fats and juices from the meat could drip onto the batter pudding, flavouring and adding colour. (The initial name for cooking a batter in this way was “Dripping Pudding”.) This also meant that these drippings, essential in the diet, particularly for working men, were utilised rather than lost to the fire. Sources of these essential fats, particularly in the North of England, were more difficult to obtain at that time, especially with the cost of meat, so every drop that could be used, was.

http://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Yorkshire-Pudding/

I've never really bothered to learn what Yorkshire pudding actually was, but I've heard meat fats called "drippings" before so it seems legit.

Dec 19, 2015 10 years ago
Solsticesprite
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I don't agree with the name change. Dripping pudding is great if you've been building a house all day, and there might be places in america called yorkshire after the original settler's country but we don't mean that place we know.

It is within the years-gone-by-but-within-my-lifetime part of my cultural heritage that one'd keep bacon grease and burger grease in a can by the stove to cook with instead of say, butter or olive oil. There was no feeling of "trans fats are bad for you" so much as it made hearty tasty food. This cooking fat happened to also be food you already had and didn't have to pay for.

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