Discover The Traditional Yet Scrumptious Yorkshire Pudding

Discover The Traditional Yet Scrumptious Yorkshire Pudding

Who hasn’t heard of Yorkshire pudding? Way before when I was still a kid, I always stayed in our kitchen and watched my mum when she was baking or cooking. She was such a sight. She didn’t measure her ingredients, yet her dishes always tasted perfect and the Yorkshire pudding was one example of this.

Every Sunday, we’d have roasted meats whether turkey, chicken, pork, lamb or beef and Mum always prepared Yorkshire pudding to accompany our meal. Her pudding was always perfect and delicious. It’s a very popular and filling dish usually served together with gravy and always associated with traditional English Sunday lunches or dinners as an important element of an English meal.

I tried copying my mum when she prepared the pudding but I always got bad results so I decided to look up a simple recipe for it & Voila! I got a perfect and delicious Yorkshire pudding recipe which I’ll share with you.

Ingredients:

1 c flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 c milk
2 tbsps melted butter
2 eggs, beaten
2-4 tbsps of roast drippings

Directions:

Sift together flour & salt inside a large bowl. Form a well in its center. Add in milk, melted butter, and eggs then beat until batter becomes completely smooth (no lumps), the consistency of whipping cream. Let sit for 1 hour.

Heat oven to 450 deg. F. Add roast drippings to a 9×12-inch pyrex or ceramic casserole dish, coating the bottom of your dish. Heat the dish in your oven for 10 minutes. For a popover version you could use those popover pans or muffin pans, putting at least a teaspoon of drippings into the bottom of each well, and place in oven for just a couple minutes.

Carefully pour your batter into the pan (or the wells of muffin/popover pans, filling just 1/3 full), once the pan is really hot. Cook for 15 minutes at 450 deg. F, then reduce the heat to 350 deg. F and cook for 15 to 20 more minutes, until puffy and golden brown. Cut into squares to serve. Serves 6.

You are welcome to create your very own variations of this recipe. If you want, go ahead and fill the pudding with different meats, gravy and veggies to get a more filling pudding.

Some nice to know facts about Yorkshire pudding:

1) The very first pudding recipe published in the year 1737 was titled “A Dripping Pudding”. Then 8 yrs after, a woman by the name of Hannah Glasse who then published the exact same recipe then named it “Yorkshire Pudding”.

2) First ever “British Yorkshire Pudding Day” was celebrated on the 3rd of February 2008 then succeeding celebrations are going to now be held on all first Sundays of February