Sugared Onion

[Rhythm Thief]

Given the preponderance (if two can be called a preponderance) of "Bread Sauce" threads in the cafe, I thought I'd start one about another little known delicace. Does anyone else have sugared onion - a sliced onion left overnight in vinegar and sugar - with roast beef and Yorkshire puds, or is it just my family? Or, at the most, a West Yorkshire thing? And, while we're about it, does anyone else have the Yorkshire puds separately at the start of the meal?

 

[ComedyPilot]

Yorkshire puds as a starter....yum

Followed by roast turkey with bread sauce........................yawn

 

[BrumJim]

Yorkshire pudding as a starter is definitely a Yorkshire thing. I hear that the rule is the more pudding you eat, the more meat you can have for the next course.

Of course this is nothing to do with tight Yorkshire wives trying to get the family full of pudding before the best, but more expensive stuff arrives. Deary me, no. What ever made me think that?

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Of course this is nothing to do with tight Yorkshire wives trying to get the family full of pudding before the best, but more expensive stuff arrives. Deary me, no. What ever made me think that?

That's exactly right. And you can have any leftover Yorkshire pud for afters with jam on it.

 

[dan_bo]

That's exactly right. And you can have any leftover Yorkshire pud for afters with jam on it.

And ice cream

and chocolate sauce

and etc etc etc

 

[ComedyPilot]

Of course this is nothing to do with tight Yorkshire wives trying to get the family full of pudding before the best, but more expensive stuff arrives. Deary me, no. What ever made me think that?

We used to live in austerity. I'm not saying times were tough, but we used to look forward to hardship, in between long periods of asceticism and abstinence.

 

[longers]

And ice cream

and chocolate sauce

and etc etc etc

My mum would make up extras on purpose and we'd have them with cream, lemon juice and syrup.

Got introduced to sugared onions by the lodger and he was from Peterborough which wasn't in Yorkshire at the last time of checking.

 

[Wolf04]

That's exactly right. And you can have any leftover Yorkshire pud for afters with jam on it.

Or thick cold cream and golden syrup ala Nigella.

 

[Kirstie]

Given the preponderance (if two can be called a preponderance) of "Bread Sauce" threads in the cafe, I thought I'd start one about another little known delicace. Does anyone else have sugared onion - a sliced onion left overnight in vinegar and sugar - with roast beef and Yorkshire puds, or is it just my family? Or, at the most, a West Yorkshire thing? And, while we're about it, does anyone else have the Yorkshire puds separately at the start of the meal?

We do the onion soaked overnight in vinegar but didn't include the sugar...usually with roast beef and horseradish

 

[longers]

I was surprised to be offered sugared onions when buying a ham muffin in a pub yesterday. Very nice.