Words / B1

y-orksh-uh-PUD-ing/ˌjɔːkʃə ˈpʊdɪŋ/

Yorkshire pudding (id: yorkshire-pudding) is a baked batter pudding eaten with roast meat and gravy, especially a UK Sunday roast. Capital Y. It is savoury, not a sweet dessert pudding, though the word pudding can mean dessert in the UK. Toad-in-the-hole bakes sausages in similar batter. Countable: a Yorkshire pudding / Yorkshires.

Meaning

A baked batter pudding eaten with roast meat and gravy (UK).

Examples

• “Save room for Yorkshire pudding with the Sunday roast.”
• “The Yorkshire puddings rose in the tin because the oil was smoking hot.”
• “Some people eat Yorkshire pudding with jam, but in this house it stays with the roast.”

Good to know

a Yorkshire pudding (capital Y). Savoury with a roast. Contrast: sponge pudding (sweet). US has no everyday equivalent.

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