I need a recipe for perfect Yorshire Puddings!?

Question

I have tried so many and have still yet to make the 'perfect' pudding - help me with your recipes and I will try them all!

I am English but live in Australia - they dont do Aunt Bessie's - it took me about 14 months to get over that fact - it means I have to try to cook my own!

Answer 1

Makes four individual puddings.

4 oz plain flour - sifted
2 eggs
Half pint milk
Salt and pepper

Sift flour into bowl (this is important as it adds air as well as removing lumps). Make a well in the centre, break in eggs and add a drop of milk. Starting from centre, mix with wooden spoon - you should be using liquid from centre to wash flour in from the walls, rather than dumping all flour in in splodgy lumps. Add more milk while mixing, until all flour is incorporated into a batter with a good pouring consistency. Add salt and pepper. Now use a balloon whisk until bubbles show on top of batter. Put aside for at least an hour - this is necessary to allow the gluten in the flour to incorporate into the liquid.

Heat oven to 190 degrees. Using a metal Yorkshire Pudding tin, put a small amount of oil or fat into each depression. (I use goose fat for perfection, but any oil will do.) Put tin into hot oven for five minutes. Beat batter with whisk again. Using a ladle, pour batter into tin depressions - nearly to top but not OTT! Put back into oven and DON'T OPEN THE DOOR AGAIN for at least 20 minutes. Then you can look. Puddings should be well risen, crisp on outer rim yet still moist in the middle. If need be and you like them darker, give them another 5 minutes.

Any batter left over can be used for breakfast pancakes next morning - or you can make more Yorkshires!

Answer 2

This question has come up before and therefore as a Yorkshireman I can get on my soap box once again. A proper pud should taste and feel like an angel dancing on your tongue. There is only one true recipe and nothing could be simpler but the egg flour ratio is crucial. In the past I have seen people recommending 4 eggs to a quarter pound of flour - absolute nonsense. You require nothing more than a quarter pound of plain flower, 1 egg, a pinch of salt and a half pint of equal quantities milk and water. Drop the egg onto the flour and salt and start to mix and add the liquid in small amounts until you beat it to the consistency of single cream. You may not have to use all the liquid.

As already said by others your pan(s) have to be smoking hot - do not be afraid (but be careful). Put at least one eighth of an inch of oil in the bottom and put into the top half of an oven set to its highest temperature (or 230c - gas 8). Leave the pans for about 10 minutes or until smoking then pour in batter no more than half way up the pan and get back in the oven as quickly as possible. Check after about 12/14 mins as time will depend on size. In Yorkshire we sometimes have them as a starter with sage and sauteed onion added to the batter - pour on some onion sauce to serve. We also eat em as a desert with lemon juice and honey. Enjoy

Answer 3

INGREDIENTS
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup whole milk
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons beef or bacon drippings
DIRECTIONS
In a large bowl, mix together the flour, milk, eggs and salt. Using an electric mixer, beat 5 minutes, until smooth. Cover and refrigerate 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Coat a 9x13 inch baking pan with beef or bacon drippings. Preheat the pan 15 minutes so the drippings are hot and sizzling.
Remove the mixture from the refrigerator. Beat briefly, then scoop into the baking pan. Bake 20 minutes.
Lower oven temperature to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Without opening the oven, continue baking 15 minutes. The mixture should be puffed and golden brown. Remove from oven and serve hot.


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NUTRITION INFORMATION
Servings Per Recipe: 8

Amount Per Serving

Calories: 106

Answer 4

Easy Yorkshire Puddings:

40 min 10 min prep
12 servings

3 large eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 pinch salt

1. Preheat oven to 375°F; In a bowl, beat the eggs and milk together, then stir in the flour and salt.
2. Set aside.
3. Divide the butter or margarine into twelve cups of a muffin tin.
4. Place tin in oven until butter is melted and hot.
5. Remove tin from oven, and divide batter evenly between all twelve cups.
6. Bake at 375F for 5 minutes, then reduce temperature to 350F and bake for about 25 additional minutes, or until puffed and golden.
7. Great served with gravy!

Answer 5

The best recipe I have found is in Delia Smiths complete cookery course- I don't have it in front of me right now, but it's easy to find.
The fact is, they all work, even the stuff that comes in a packet.
The trick is to make sure the fat in the tin is SMOKING hot before the mixture goes into it- I heat it in the oven , then put it on the hob on a medium heat while I pour in the mix. Bung it straight into a hot oven (220-230 c) and Don't look at it until the recipe says it should be ready!- open the oven too soon, and it's curtains.

Answer 6

YORKSHIRE PUDDING

3/4 c. flour
1/2 tsp. salt
2 eggs
1 c. milk
4 tbsp. oil

Beat flour, salt, eggs, milk together until very smooth, scraping bowl occasionally. Refrigerate 2 hours or longer. Heat oven to 450 degrees. Measure oil into 8 x 8 x 2 inch square Pyrex pan. Heat for 2 minutes. Pour batter into pan and bake for 20-30 minutes. Do not open door. Serve immediately.
When fresh from oven good Yorkshire pudding is a puffy irregular shaped golden mass, unlike any other baked dish. On standing a few minutes, the surface settles more or less evenly and when cut the outer crust is tender, crisp and center soft and custardy.

Serves 6.

Answer 7

Title: Apple Burgers:
Categories:
Yield: 6 Burgers

1 lb Lean flank steak; ground
1 c Whole wheat bread crumbs
1 1/2 c Applesauce
1 sm Onion; grated
1 1/2 ts Dry mustard
1 ts Pepper
1 ts Soy sauce
-=MIXED WITH=-
2 ts Water

Preheat oven to 350°.

Combine all ingredients in a medium size bowl.
Spray 6 muffin cups with Pam. Divide meat among
muffin cups. Bake 25 minutes or until cooked
through.


Yorkshire Pudding:


Serves 4


Preparation time less than 30 mins
Cooking time less than 10 mins


Ingredients
vegetable oil
290ml/½ pint milk
4 eggs, beaten
255g/9oz plain flour, sifted
salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method
1. Preheat the oven to 220C/425F/Gas 7.
2. Grease a Yorkshire pudding tin with a little vegetable oil. Place the tin in the oven to preheat.
3. Place the milk, eggs and seasoning in a bowl. Stir well to combine.
4. Whisk in the flour.
5. Remove the tin from the oven. Pour in the batter, filling each case only three quarters full.
6. Place the tin in the oven and bake for 10 minutes, or until puffy and raised.
7. Remove the puddings from the oven and serve.





Yorkshire Pudding:
A British favorite to serve with roast beef, and one of my Grandma's specialties. She finally took pity on my Mom and I and gave us this recipe - although mine has still never turned out as good as Grandma's!

Ingredients:

About 1/2 cup beef drippings
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
2 or 3 eggs

Directions:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
Divide beef drippings between 8 muffin cups. Put in oven to heat. (You can use oil in place of drippings if you are making these without a roast - about 1 teaspoon per muffin cup).
Mix flour and salt. Add milk gradually to prevent lumping.
Beat eggs well and add to batter.
Remove muffin pan from the oven. Divide batter between muffin cups.
Place pan back in oven. Reduce heat to 375 degrees F. and bake until puffy and golden.

Answer 8

you will need to break your eggs in to a bowl possibly 4, then add your flour to the eggs, mix to a paste, add half milk and half water until the mixture coats the back of a spoon. Season with salt.

Heat the oven to 180c pour oil into the cake tins and place into the oven to heat, when hot take out and pour in the batter mix return to the oven at 180c for 30 min then turn the oven down to 150c for 15 minutes. (Important do not at any time open the oven door)

Answer 9

go to shop, buy pack of Aunt Bessy's Yorkshire Puddings

place puddings in baking tray, pass off as your own and hey presto- the perfect yorkshire pudding recipe

Answer 10

1) Buy Aunt Bessie's yorkshire puds
2) Cook Aunt Bessie's yorkshire puds