Don't be fooled by the names; it tastes neither like a creamy sweet dessert nor like an infant (or what I imagine an infant to taste like anyway...) It's a bready concoction, soft in some spots and crispy in others.
We all love it.
Yorkshire Pudding:
5 eggs
1 1/4 cups of milk
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups of flour
1/4 cup of butter
Crack eggs into a blender and mix. Add milk and salt. Mix. Add flour and mix until smooth. Warm butter in microwave just until melted. (Don't make it too hot or it may begin to cook the eggs when you add it to the blender.) Add butter to the egg mixture and blend thoroughly.
Let it set in the blender on your counter for awhile, even up to an hour. (The reason for this is that the pudding seems to "puff" better if the batter isn't too cold when it enters the hot oven.) Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Grease a 9 x 13 pan heavily with butter or oil. Put pan into oven for just a short time. You want it nice and hot when it receives the batter, but watch carefully because you don't want the butter to burn nor the oil to smoke.
Retrieve the pan from the oven and pour the batter into it. Return the pan to the oven and cook the pudding for about 12-18 minutes. Keep checking it by turning on your oven's light and looking through the window, but don't open the door because that may cause it to deflate and there are few things as lovely (in my kitchen, anyway) as a lofty, glorious Yorkshire pudding, rising in the oven.
I love all the ridges and valleys. It's like a delicious, 3-D topographical map. :)
Sadly, it doesn't quite maintain its resplendence for long because as soon as you take it out of the oven, it begins to deflate:
However, it is at this point that you realize you're about to eat it, so all woe is quickly banished. :)
I've found it's easiest to cut it into servings with my kitchen shears. Serve it as soon as it's cool enough to handle (within five minutes) to enjoy it properly.
Yummy, yummy...
3 comments:
AIMEE!!!!!!!!!!! I could cry!! Thank you SO much for this! Did you know that Yorkshire is where I lived when I was in England? This is a fav of mine and I am not talented in making it!!!! I miss it greatly! I will have to be brave and try your way here soon! Thank you Thank you Thnak you! It is amazing the little things that bless our days! That just blessed mine! Love you!
Wow, Kym, had I known this would be such a joyous occasion for you I'd have posted it LONG ago. :) Enjoy! (But remember that this is MY version so it might be a bit different from the original article that you munched on in Yorkshire.)
Aimee- my grandmother passed down this receipe (similiar) and we call it oven pancakes. We serve it with applesauce and powdered sugar. Yummy and a great presentation!
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