YORKSHIRE PUDDING

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 35, 4 November 1933, Page 23

YORKSHIRE PUDDING

There was once a cook, who was an expert at making Yorkshire pudding. Now this cook’s master was King Foozleumb, and after lining Yorkshire pudding for many months, day after day, he grew tired of it aud on New Year’s Day threatened to behead the cook if he did not make a different pudding for every day of the year. The poor cook racked and racked his brains, and, after looking up every cookery book there was, at last found three hundred and sixty-five recipes. And then—he remembered it was leap year; he must find one more recipe. He stayed awake thinking and thinking, but alas! he could, not think of another recipe; he must chance it and make Yorkshire pudding on the last day of the year. When this day arrived the cook, very scared, and very flustered, placed before the monarch a plate of Yorkshire pudding, and when he had dined, he said, “I had no idea that I liked Yorkshire pudding so much. I knight you as Sir Percival Chef, the kingdoms best cook.”— Original, by “Nonnie the Gnome,” aged 12, Napier.