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Brian Mailman[_1_]

wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:47:50 -0500, Isabella Woodhouse
> > wrote:

>>Indeed. Am I in error? I thought it was the same thing except that
>>popovers were baked in a popover tin.
>
> I don't think you are in error. I think it is just a case of different
> names in different parts of the world.
> I remember my Scots grandmother making what she called Yorkshire
> pudding. She'd take the drippings from a beef roast and put a bit into
> each opening of a muffin tin, then she'd heat them in a very hot oven,
> add the batter and back into the oven. They took no time at all to
> transform into a big, hollow, muffin looking things that everyone
> loved.

Huh. I've always reserved the right to be wrong... my experience with
Yorkshire Pudding has been nothing like that. But then again, that was
here, and you're there so you would know from. They do sound the same.

B/