Eat your pudding.

Scientists have come up with the recipe for the perfect Yorkshire Pudding, but what caught my eye was that they have also suggested going back to the traditional way of serving it - as a separate course before the meat course. The original idea of the Yorkshire was a thrift thing - by first filling the family up with the pudding smothered in gravy, the canny Yorkshire housewife could get away with giving them less meat. And certainly a freshly made Yorkshire and gravy is a scrumptious thing in its own right. Thank goodness the EU haven't got hold of it and decreed that to be called such it must be made in Yorkshire - though, thinking about it, it's probably just a matter of time...