Yorkshire pudding is delicious if you make it with the fat from the the roast beef you've just cooked. If you take some of the fat out and pour it into a baking dish, then add the batter. You can make gravy in the roast beef pan with the rest of the drippings. Yorkshire pudding is so much better than garlic bread! (and I love garlic bread ) Isn't some of the northern English cooking similar to Viking cooking? I've blamed or credited Vikings with spreading beets all over northern Europe, leading to Borscht in Russia and Scouse stew in Liverpool.