Afternoon tea served in a Yorkshire pudding added to pub menu

13-Aug-2018 - Last updated on 13-Aug-2018 at 09:11 GMT

Yorkshire treat: the unusual dishes are on offer throughout this week (13 to 19 August) at Dearne Valley Farm in Barnsley

A Yorkshire pub is serving afternoon tea in Yorkshire puddings to celebrate National Afternoon Tea Week (Monday 13 to Sunday 19 August).

Dearne Valley Farm in Barnsley, part of Greene King’s Farmhouse Inns brand, has filled Yorkshire puddings with classic afternoon tea components including egg mayonnaise, and cheese and pickle, as well as Victoria sponge filled with jam and cream, all of which will be served in Yorkshire puddings.

The pub’s general manager Emma Hodgson said: “Our Yorkshire puddings are a firm favourite on our carvery menu so, for National Afternoon Tea Week, we wanted to do something different and give our humble pud a whole new look.

“We look forward to inviting guests to try our new creation and are sure it is going to be a huge hit with new and regular guests alike.”

Menu addition

The Yorkshire Afternoon Tea is available from today (Monday 13 August) from 2pm until 5pm, while stocks last.

While the Yorkshire Afternoon Tea is currently only available at the Dearne Valley Farm, the northern dish could be rolled out to 65 Farmhouse Inns site nationwide.

Guests are invited to have the dish added to their local Farmhouse Inns menu by visiting www.farmhouseinns.co.uk/yorkshire-afternoon-tea.

This wasn’t the first time a Farmhouse Inns site has introduced something different to the norm in a Yorkshire pudding to its menu.

Unique and unusual

The Half Penny Farm pub in Oldbury, West Midlands, took Easter to another level this year (March) by offering Creme Eggs in a giant Yorkshire pudding.

The pub combined the flavours in a bid to create the UK’s first giant Creme Egg Yorkshire pudding. It introduced the seasonal Easter treat to meet a growing demand for “unique and unusual dishes”.

Half Penny Farm general manager Mark Tennant said: “All our cakes at the pub are handmade by our dedicated team so, this year, we put our 'cake-a-tier' to the test to create something truly ‘eggs-travagant’ as a special Easter cake, and we have not been disappointed.

“Our giant Yorkshire puddings are a firm favourite on our carvery menu, encouraging diners to pack theirs full of succulent meats and seasonal vegetables, so we thought why not combine these with the typical Easter sweet, to create something truly 'egg-cellent'?"