Yorkshire Pudding: and other Brit Food

[Carol]

> Magpie:
> I'm trying to think of how I'd describe it--my mother always made it 
> when I was growing up. It never seemed odd to me that it was called 
> pudding, I guess because I was used to the name, but no, it's not like 
> bread. It's kind of eggy in my mind.

Carol:

Speaking of pudding that isn't what we Americans call pudding, my
grandmother, whose maiden name was O'Neil (but she was born in the
US--don't know when her ancestors came over from Ireland), used to
bake persimmon pudding, which was rather like a puffy gingerbread,
about the consistency of a chewy brownie. Anyone ever hear of such a
thing, or could it have been her invention, like the guava/banana
milkshakes she used to make in her blender in the days when no one but
her owned a blender (to my knowledge) and no one had ever heard of
health food?

Carol, for whom those days now seem like once upon a time