IT’S time to celebrate all that’s good about Yorkshire tomorrow.
August 1 marks Yorkshire Day when Tykes celebrate the Broad Acres, or God’s Own County.
And in typical Yorkshire fashion, two Huddersfield firms plan to celebrate with quirky grub.
Award-winning pork pie makers, Hinchliffe’s Farm Shop, of Netherton, will be unveiling Pork Minster – a giant pie in the shape of the iconic York Minster.
And Denby Dale-based Yummy Yorkshire is rolling out an ice cream made from Yorkshire Puddings, gravy and raspberry syrup to help mark Yorkshire Day.
Yummy Yorkshire developed the unusual flavour three years ago and due to popular demand, the ice cream is once again back on the menu.
The Minster pie, to be unveiled in York today, will be the work of Hinchliffe’s butcher Craig Midwood, who has 30 years experience.
He said: “A good pie starts with the very best, fresh ingredients to gain that winning edge, but there’s also an element of practice-makes-perfect when it comes to the perfect pie.
“We are extremely proud of our ‘farm gate to plate’ policy and we source the majority of the ingredients in all our products from within Yorkshire. Using traditional butchering methods, we only use the best pork belly cuts of meat in our pies. They are made on site of our own farm to a top secret recipe.”
Meanwhile, the Yorkshire Puddings and gravy for the ice-cream recipe are produced by Yummy Yorkshire’s own chef while the raspberry vinegar comes from Yorkshire based gourmet vinegar specialist Womersley.
The milk and cream for the ice cream comes from Yummy Yorkshire’s own herd of Holstein cows.
Louise Holmes, co-founder of Yummy Yorkshire says: “Yorkshire Day celebrates everything Yorkshire and what better way to show our appreciation of ‘God’s own County’ than through ice cream. Although the flavour sounds like it shouldn’t work, it does! The Yorkshire Pudding batter is very similar to a pancake mix so it combines well with the sweetness of the ice cream.
“The gravy adds a slight saltiness but this is balanced out by the raspberry vinegar – we added this in recognition of the long-forgotten tradition of serving Yorkshire pudding as a starter in this way.”
The idea of Yorkshire Day came about during a meeting of the Yorkshire Ridings Society in 1974. They chose a date for the event, August 1, and in 1975 the first ever Yorkshire Day took place.
The day is also the anniversary of the Battle of Minden, when Yorkshire troops fighting in the Seven Years War in 1759 defeated the French .
