Most of my friends think this is weird, but I thought it was normal as my family and I have always done it at home.....after a roast dinner I have a piece of bread and butter and mop up the left over gravy. If there is gravy left I pour it over the bread and eat it with a knife and fork. Honestly it's the best bit of the roast dinner! Does anyone else do this or is the general view that this is a bit wrong?!

i do that too :clap: when i was little and used to have dinner at my nan and grandads it was the done thing, mind you my hubby doesnt do it so i thort it was just us rovvremers LOL

if theres left over mash i put a dollop of that on the slice of bread before pouring the gravy on tho :thumbsup:

Originally posted by hrd83
Most of my friends think this is weird, but I thought it was normal as my family and I have always done it at home.....after a roast dinner I have a piece of bread and butter and mop up the left over gravy. If there is gravy left I pour it over the bread and eat it with a knife and fork. Honestly it's the best bit of the roast dinner! Does anyone else do this or is the general view that this is a bit wrong?!

This made me laugh as it reminds me of my eldest brother. Although he doesn't just do that with the Sunday roast, he will get the bread out where ever there is anything to mop up! I must admit that I do it also when I'm especially hungry. :D

Yeah - someone told me about this recently so I decided to try it. Henderson's relish 'n all.

Didn't like it though - Sorry to disappoint.

Call me boring but gravy is best on roast potatoes and yorkshire puds and bread is best toasted (with cheese and Henderson's!)

hendersons is rubbish woucester(sp?) is much much better :thumbsup:

no salad creams the best!
i cover all my roast and potatoes with it mmmmmmmmmmmmm

Now that is weird! Salad cream with roast potatoes.....Makes bread and gravy look perfectly normal!

Do you have bread and gravy after a roast?

No, I have a good fart and a lie down!!
;)

and in yorkshire puddings,mmmmmmmmmm
its the best forget ur gravy:clap: :clap:

Yeah - go for the bread and gravy but my little twist on Sunday roast is a Yorkshire pudding with jam on it......anyone else for that??

Yorkshire pudding with jam on it......anyone else for that??

and you call me weird??????:D

I can see that might be nice, like having sweet or savory pancakes......however it would be a disaster if the jam got on your brocoli. Maybe you should save your yorkshires for pud. Another point while we are on the topics of roasts......should yorkshires be specific to beef?

my grandad always used to have his yorkshire puddings with a bit of gravy before his dinner - now thats weird...

Jam on yorkshire pud rocks!

True Tykes have their yorkshire pudding before the rest of their meal :thumbsup: it is a delicacy to be savoured on its own ... wi' jam/honey/mint sauce (heaven)/gravy on it. Nowt weird about it at all.

My husband would mop the floor up with bread and butter if he could, he wipes his plate clean and dry with it after every meal, i could just put his plate back in the cupboard, no one would know the difference!:|

Originally posted by hrd83
after a roast dinner I have a piece of bread and butter and mop up the left over gravy.

If the gravy is nice enough and still plenty left, then yeah I mop it up with a slice of bread, but I dont put butter on it though. Have done for as long as I can remember being alive.

Originally posted by Internetowl
my grandad always used to have his yorkshire puddings with a bit of gravy before his dinner - now thats weird...

Yep, my Auntie in Crookes used to do that, a huge tear and share yorkie pud and a plate a gravy to start.
My Dad had his Yorkie pud on a side plate, he would leave it until last then mop up with it.

Too be honest I can take or leave Yorkie Pud, it's the crispy roast pots for me.

Sunday dinner at my mum and dads, we always have the Yorkshire Pudding separate as a starter, before the main dinner.

My dad says he had Yorkshire pudding with jam as a kid.

Ive seen people with the bread and gravy thing, I think my grandad used to do it, but if you have a dinner at our house you are too full for this!

I used to love soaking bread in gravy when I was a kid.....haven't done it for years though.

One thing I did do a couple of weeks' ago, which I haven't done for years, is made an Oxo drink, and then dunked bread and butter in it......yummy:clap: Mustn't make a habit of that though, coz it has such a high salt content, and that ain't good:wink:

My other half looks ascance when I put jam on a Yorkshire......love to see her face if I put dalad cream on roasties....Julie23, I didn't call you weird but you are.

Jamie Oliver would have a field day with all these suggestions

Yorkshires with jam - P.U.K.K.A.

Lets produce a Sheffield Forumer cookbook. It would make millions.

Recipe 1: Bread and Gravy
Recipe 2: Salad cream and Roasties
Recipe 3: Yorkshires and Jam

etc.......

How about a fav sarnie filling, then compile them !

Bacon, grated cheese and marmite ! or Fish Fingers and Salad Cream.

I think the yorkshire pudding on a plate as a starter with gravy or with jam is pretty peculiar to this area, when I've mentioned doing that anywhere else around the country or to anyone from elsewhere they just looked at me 'gone out' and said " you have a yorkshire pudding first?".

its all I've ever known and I'm not about to alter my behaviour now :D


:clap:

Isn't Yorkshire Pudding with Jam virtually Bakewell Pudding? They may add an egg and sugar to the actual pudding filling, but it's not so far off?

I remember a pub near Barnsley where the only food was variations on Yorkshire Pudding - and it was fantastic. :thumbsup:

Originally posted by hrd83
Most of my friends think this is weird, but I thought it was normal as my family and I have always done it at home.....after a roast dinner I have a piece of bread and butter and mop up the left over gravy. If there is gravy left I pour it over the bread and eat it with a knife and fork. Honestly it's the best bit of the roast dinner! Does anyone else do this or is the general view that this is a bit wrong?!

Not weird in my eyes, pal. We ALL do it in my house, exactly as you described!

So, what time's the roast done then? We'll pile round this afternoon! :D

My dad always used to finish off the tea table with a big pile of bread and butter so you could mop up your plate afterwards. I was having a meal the other day and trying to resist mopping up the nice dressing, but then I saw a colleague who is very posh doing just that so I thought bugger it and did it myself. :thumbsup:

We used to have left over Yorkshires with Golden syrup for afters, it's basically pancake mix so not that weird really.
When i was a child, we used to have the Yorkshires as a separate starter but my nan's gone all healthy now and insists on melon instead lol. (I only ever eat this kind of food at my Grans) She only does Yorkshires when my mum visits as well.

Originally posted by lovabulrogue
How about a fav sarnie filling, then compile them !

Bacon, grated cheese and marmite ! or Fish Fingers and Salad Cream.


I might give that one a go sounds good......although I may change the bacon for tuna...

Also good is poached eggs with marmite. Mmmmm:thumbsup:


I am going to have to show this thread to my friends to prove that there are weirder things than bread and gravy...thanks guys!

Originally posted by hrd83
after a roast dinner I have a piece of bread and butter and mop up the left over gravy. If there is gravy left I pour it over the bread and eat it with a knife and fork. Honestly it's the best bit of the roast dinner! Does anyone else do this or is the general view that this is a bit wrong?!

I used to do it all the time when I was younger. I do now but only if I am still hungry but I dont have as big an appetite anymore so my boyfriend usually has my gravy (or any sauce we have had with a meal) and his own. He goes through so much bread its unbelievable. :P

Originally posted by hrd83
after a roast dinner I have a piece of bread and butter and mop up the left over gravy. If there is gravy left I pour it over the bread and eat it with a knife and fork. Honestly it's the best bit of the roast dinner! Does anyone else do this or is the general view that this is a bit wrong?!

I'm another one who does this - though without the butter. You're definitely not alone!

As to yorkshire pud as a starter, wasn't the idea of this to fill everyone up - "when times was 'ard" - so it didn't matter if there wasn't much meat for the main course? That's what I'd heard, anyway.

I like to have any left over yorkies after my dinner with jam.....sooooo lovely.
My partner loves it when we've had lamb, he then has any left over onion sauce, gravy and mint sauce, mixed in on his plate with a slice of bread to mop it all up.:gag:

Anyone who has been to France or Spain will remember that bread is always the first thing that is put on the table for the main meal.
Bread is baked several times a day and no self respecting French person would dream of eating meat and gravy (called la sauce in French!) without bread "pour pousser" that is, to push the meat onto your fork.
I have a Spanish friend who apparently would choke if she couldn't eat her meat with with a chunk of bread to help it down.
I must admit, English gravy is lovely, but I soak it up with the potatoes not a piece of bread.
Good post hrd83!!

Is there only me in the world who smothers there sunday roast in red sauce??? mmm- yummy!!

Everyone aways looks at me wierdly when i do it!! :clap:

my hubby puts red sauce on a sunday dinner ewwwww its just so wrong , i tell him it int rate but all he says is it is equally wrong for me to put brown sauce on then :| ... im just sure im right in thinking brown sauce goes with gravy but red sauce dunt :suspect: :gag:

I once saw a mate settle down to fried egg chips and beans, then he poured a packet of walkers prawn cocktail crisps over the top of it, and tucked in !!

A little exercise: Try and explain to a mate what gravy is. (as if they have never heard of it before). I had to explain to a Spanish friend and it sounds disgusting!

When my parents were kids (they are in their 80's now). they had yorkshire pudds with gravy to start - this was because there was only ever a small piece of meat so they needed to be full before they got around to having any! And they had yorkshire puddings after with jam or sugar, if they were still hungry... cos it was cheap!

In my opinion its the best bit of the dinner.
Love them with Gravy. Or Jam, syrup or chocolate spread! yum

Not too keen on the bread and butter for mop up though. although when i was a kid mum use to put us some oxo gravy in a bowl with a knob of lard on top and we had a chunk of homemake bread to dip in it for our supper.

My mum and Dad always saved the fat for dripping butties on a Sunday tea time, Urgghh, no thanks.

Originally posted by Litha
hendersons is rubbish woucester(sp?) is much much better :thumbsup:

Hang your head in shame ..
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Go and wander in the wilderness that is beyond the boundaries of South Yorkshire and ponder the error of your ways...
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When you have visited the eighth level of hell which is reserved for Sowers of Discord and Deceivers, when you feel sufficiently chastened then you may rejoin Sheffield society, as long as you promise to never again utter such heresy.

When I was small and we used to go for Sunday dinner (not lunch) to my gran's it was seasoned yorkshire with gravy to start, plain yorkshire with the meal and then plain yorkshire with Jam, custard golden, syrup or similar for pudding. As other posters have said I'm sure its origins go back to a time when there wasn't much meat to go round and the yorkshires were to fill you up.

The idea of having bread AND butter with gravy seems strange. Surely the point of the bread is to absorb the liquid, having butter will add to the liquid as it melts. (I presume the gravy is hot).

I know that there are places on the continent where mayonnaise is served with chips, so salad cream with roast potatoes isn't too far removed from this.

One weird idea I saw recently was adding broken crisps to beaten egg and creating an omelette.

My dad likes mopping his left oer gravy and pea juice and whatever else up with bread. Mind you so do i.
And when im eating soup i rip the bread into small shreds and mix it in with it, absolutly scumptious.

LOL

I prefer Mayonnaise to Salad cream, theres bacon and mayo, chips and mayo, kebab and mayo, ham and mayo. I love mayo
YAY for Mayo.

lol From Fallen