- Yorkshire is a historic centre for the brewing of beer, with breweries such as Tetley's, John Smith's, Sam Smith's, Black Sheep, Theakston, Timothy Taylor, Copper Dragon and many more
- Yorkshire curd tart - a curd tart recipe which has been around since at least the 1750s, unique because of its use of rosewater.
- Parkin - a sweet ginger cake which is different from standard ginger cakes in that it includes oatmeal and treacle as part of the traditional recipe.
- Gingerbread, one unusual form of gingerbread from Yorkshire has a layer of crystallised ginger in the middle, rather than an essence of ginger or ginger shavings.
- Liquorice sweet - the plant was thought to have been brought over to Yorkshire by returning Crusaders or Dominican monks in the 14th century. It became synonymous with Pontefract
in Yorkshire as local man, George Dunhill, in the 1760s thought to mix
it with sugar, creating what was known locally as "Pomfret cakes", but
is now well known as just liquorice. As liquorice requires deep soil to
grow Pontefract was largely unique in growing it in the area, although
no longer grown in the area, Pontefract has two large confectionery
factories as a legacy.
- Wensleydale cheese - a cheese associated with Wensleydale in North Yorkshire, the local pastures give the cheese the unique flavour for which it is renowned
- Ginger beer - a beverage flavoured with ginger, it has existed since the mid-1700s.
- Yorkshire Rhubarb Triangle - Rhubarb from the 'Rhubarb Triangle' is a 9-square-mile (23 km2) triangle in West Yorkshire, located between Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell famous for producing early forced rhubarb by candlelight. In February 2010, Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb was awarded Protected Designation of Origin status by the European Commission’s Protected Food Name scheme after being recommended by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, (Defra).
- Rowntree's (York) - invented Kit Kat, Smarties, Aero, Fruit Pastilles, Black Magic and Polo.
- Terry's (York) - invented Terry's Chocolate Orange, York Fruits, Neapolitans and Terry's All Gold.
- Thorntons (Sheffield) - involved in the field of luxury chocolate such as elaborate truffles.
- Yorkshire is officially recognised by FIFA as the birthplace of club football, as Sheffield FC who were founded in 1857 are certified as the oldest association football club in the world.
- We hosted the first ever inter-club match and the first ever local derby on 26 December 1860; between Sheffield FC and Hallam FC.
- Yorkshire is also home to what is recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the Oldest Ground in the World, Sandygate Road. The Sheffield rules code was highly influential to the development of the FA's Laws of the Game, which is now the world wide standard code for the game and happened to be drafted by Ebenezer Cobb Morley from Hull
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