Yorkshire Pudding: and other Brit Food

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10 at ...> wrote:

> Well, it's certainly nothing like bread....

What counts as being 'like bread'? To me, cake is something like bread
(with banana nut bread being more like cake than like bread and
cinnamon raisin bread being on the border) and muffins are something
like bread and biscuits (in the American sense -- what do Brits call
them?) and rolls are something like bread. 

The pastry part of pastry is something like bread, altho' the whipped
cream and jam and chocolate syrup are not like bread. Actually, I
think meringues (the ones I've had, which may not have been very good
specimens of the breed) are a little like bread even tho' they're made
entirely of whipped egg white and sugar and lots of heat, enough to
make them solid and crisp all the way through, not of bread stuff. 

And cookies (what Brits call biscuits) range from something like bread
to pieces of fudge with no batter-stuff involved. 

And waffles and pancakes are a little like bread, and French toast,
which is bread dipped in stirred up broken eggs and then fried, is
definitely eggy but nonetheless a little bit like bread... 

However, I can't think of the stuffing of the Thanksgiving turkey as
being like bread, even though torn-up scraps of bread are a
significant ingredient.

I think the bread dough wrapped beef roast of which Steve bboyminn was
thinking may have been a beef Wellington. Altho' I think the one I had
once was wrapped in mashed potatoes instead.

And the Yorkshire pudding I had once was a lot like other rich hot-air
balloons of bread, such as paratha, and I can't remember the name of
the Mexican one (which is a dessert sweet). Like Steve, I was
surprised that it was beside the roast rather than around it. 

In both cases, the restaurant may have served food items that were not
the item whose name they masqueraded under.

And the name 'Yorkshire pudding', is it like 'Welsh rabbit' -- did
Yorkshiremen have the reputation of being poor or stingy, so that the
only thing they could afford for 'pudding' ('afters') was more of the
side dish of the main meal?