Outsize Yorkshire pud

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32639, 22 June 1971, Page 1

Outsize Yorkshire pud

(N.Z Press Association)

BLENHEIM, June 21

Yorkshire pudding may not be on the training diet of the Lions, but in Blenheim today they had presented to them the world’s longest pudding.

A Rai Valley baker, Mr E. J. Rennie, in whose oven have been baked the world’s longest loaf of bread and the record sausage roll, this morning produced a Yorkshire “pud” sft long, 21in wide and I jin deep.

Into it went 1J gallons of milk, 30 eggs and 71b of flour, and the mixing,

standing and baking took four hours.

The little bakehouse with the big reputation, 44 miles from Blenheim on the highway to Nelson, this morning was a hive of excitement as Mr Rennie proudly exhibited his latest record-making effort.

In 1968 he and his assistant, D. Broderick, baked a loaf of bread which measured 27ft sin. It was sent to the touring French Rugby team, then at Hamilton, and for a while was on show in Queen Street, Auckland.

A couple of years ago the Rai Valley bakery got into the book of records

again with a 14ft sausage roll. This came to Blenheim and was raffled and sold at auction by the Blenheim Round Table to raise funds for a local charity. .

The Yorkshire pudding was taken to the Criterion Hotel and presented to the Lions sole Yorkshireman, J. Spencer, the Headingley centre three-quarters. If was decorated with rabbits and red, white, blue and green ribbons, and the words, “Welcome to Marlborough.”

"We’ve got to put a bit o’ green in it for the Irish,” said Mr Rennie.