Yorkshire pudding

noun

A dish made from batter baked in fat, usually served as an accompaniment to roast beef but sometimes (in a larger form) served with other fillings or as a separate course.

Meanings

nounYorkshire pudding (plural Yorkshire puddings)

plural Yorkshire puddings

  1. A dish made from batter baked in fat, usually served as an accompaniment to roast beef but sometimes (in a larger form) served with other fillings or as a separate course.

    "Dear, dear, we shall have no dinners worth eating till we get to England. I quite long for our good Sunday smell of a piece of roast-beef and a Yorkshire pudding."

    1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 127–128

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 約克郡布丁 /约克郡布丁, 約克夏布丁 /约克夏布丁
  • 約克郡布丁 /约克郡布丁 (Yuēkèjùn bùdīng)dish made from batter baked in fat
  • 約克夏布丁 /约克夏布丁 (Yuēkèxià bùdīng)dish made from batter baked in fat
Finnish Yorkshire vanukas
  • Yorkshire vanukasdish made from batter baked in fat
Italian budino dello Yorkshire, budino di pastella
  • budino dello Yorkshiredish made from batter baked in fat
  • budino di pastelladish made from batter baked in fat
Japanese ヨークシャー・プディング
  • ヨークシャー・プディング (Yōkushā-pudingu)dish made from batter baked in fat
Polish Yorkshire pudding
  • Yorkshire puddingdish made from batter baked in fat
Russian йо́ркширский пу́динг
  • йо́ркширский пу́динг (jórkširskij púding)dish made from batter baked in fat
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APA

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Chicago

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