Cultural Cooking Yorkshire Pudding
To advertise here, please contact Cathy@villagerpublications.com To donate to the project, visit London Community Foundation’s chapel page at www.lcf.on.ca/chapel-project or contact Dawn Miskelly, Executive Director of Fanshawe Pioneer Village at director@fanshawepioneervillage.ca | 519-457-1296 ext. 812 to learn more. Now Servicing St. Thomas & Area Family Owned & Operated Since 1997 The Chapel Project aims to relocate the small wood building known as the Fugitive Slave Chapel from its current location on Grey Street to Fanshawe Pioneer Village. There it will be fully restored and repurposed to teach about slavery, the Underground Railroad, and the area’s Black histories. Built around 1848, the building is the oldest surviving structure that relates to London’s historic Black community. But their location on the Longwoods Road, while ideal in 1793, when its most distinguished visitor, Governor Simcoe (accompanied by a young Thomas Talbot) arrived, became problematic by the turn of the century, for it lay on the route from Niagara to Detroit. All manner of travelers showed up (including Watson, Westbrook and Allan); soldiers and traders, the righteous and the ne’er-do-wells. Particularly troublesome were the French traders, for they enticed the Natives with Support the Restoration of London’s Fugitive Slave Chapel Ingredients 3 large eggs 3/4 cup milk 3/4 cup flour 3/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup melted butter (Rendered beef or pork fat can be substituted for butter for a more traditional flavor.) The Battle of the Thames is over. Major Simon Zelotes Watson and Captain Andrew Westbrook are going home. It had been a long sixteen months since they, along with their neighbour, Ebenezer Allan, passed through Moraviantown on their way to Detroit to join General Hull’s American Invasion Force with the idea of using Hull’s army to finish off one particularly obnoxious Britisher named Colonel Thomas Talbot. Now, after various setbacks: the Fall of Detroit, Ebenezer’s death (thanks to languishing in a British gaol) and the siege of Fort Meigs, they are almost home. It is a scant 38 miles (60km) further up the Longwoods Road to Delaware and less than 7 miles (11.2km) more to Westminster (Byron). Both of them would have been very familiar with Moraviantown. Puddings were much enjoyed in the Victorian era. Yorkshire Pudding, in the early Victorian years, was cooked in a pan under a joint of beef that was roasting on a spit. The drippings from the meat would cook and color the batter. It was served with gravy as an appetizer. In honour of Victoria Day, here’s a Victorian-era recipe, and one commonly used today. Victorian-Era Yorkshire Pudding: “Take a quart of milk, four eggs, and a little salt, make it up into a thick batter with flour like a pancake batter. You must have a good piece of meat at the fire, take a stew-pan and put some dripping in, set it on the fire; when it boils, pour in your pudding; let it bake on the fire till you think it is nigh enough. Set your stew-pan [on a downturned pan] under your meat, and let the dripping drop on the pudding, and the heat of the fire come to it, to make it of a fine brown.” Modern-Era Yorkshire Pudding: The Moravian Indian village (Fairfield) began in 1793 when the United Brethren, Zeisberger, Senseman, Jung and Edwards and several Christian Natives chose this spot in the middle of nowhere along the Thames River where they thought they would be safe. This non-violent sect, originally from Moravia, Germany, had been chased out of Ohio and Pennsylvania because they refused to choose sides in the American Revolutionary war and later between the expansionist American settlers and the beleaguered Natives. The site was a good one. The Thames supplied food and transportation. The rich soil grew plenty of corn. They even had beehives! A nearby source of pitchblende supplied fuel for their lamps. Life, finally, was good. POOLE’S WATER SUPPLY BULK WATER FOR SWIMMING POOLS FAST - FRIENDLY - AFFORDABLE SERVICE 519-652-6490 CALL TODAY Page 24 Byron Villager May 2025
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WHILE QUANTITIES LAST: The Wortley Villager is delivered to thousands of addresses in Old South London with extras set out at local venues. Miss out? You can read the On the day of the Battle of the Thames, Proctor and his retinue rode through the village at speed with the American cavalry in hot pursuit. The villagers fled into the woods. Brother Jung (although sick in bed) and his wife were the only people left. Colonel Johnson’s cavalry occupied the village that night in drunken revelry while the main army encamped on the battlefield. General Harrison arrived the next day and gave orders for rafts to be built to float the plundered grain down the Thames to Detroit. When Jung protested, he was accused of harbouring British spies. Although no evidence could be found to support this accusation, Harrison ordered the village to be torched. Simon and Andrew could only stand by and tearfully watch as twenty years of hard work and a lifetime of prayers complete lineup of Villager community magazines at villagerpublications.com Velofix mobile bike repair is now servicing London & surrounding areas. Save Time – Ride More with Vélofix Mobile Bike Repair London Seniors (55+) Games 55+ canlearn more and sign up at OSGA55plus.ca went up in smoke. Some things never change. Still, they are going home. (To be continued) The Old South Village Pub’s house-made Yorkshire Pudding is topped with thinly sliced roasted beef, horseradish mayo and served with beef au jus. www.oldsouthpub.com Warm Beef Yorkies from the Old South Village Pub Directions Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Whisk together eggs and milk until they are foamy, and then mix with flour and salt. Do not overmix. Allow the batter to rest at room temperature for 30 minutes. Add about a teaspoon of fat to each cup of a muffin tin. Place the tin in the oven to heat for five to seven minutes. Fill each cup of the muffin tin to about half full, and return the tin to the oven for 10 to 12 minutes, or until the puddings are crisp and golden brown. Serve immediately, drizzled with remaining melted butter as desired. Recipe yields 12 liquor, as well as other Natives exhorting them to join them in their fight against either the Americans or the British. The long- suffering Brethren gave hospitality to them all.
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