Yorkshire pudding is a starchy dish served with meat, often with gravy or meat juices. It’s made by mixing a thin batter of flour, milk and egg and cooked in a side pan. It’s the ancestor of the popover and can give a traditional touch to a roast meal.
Yorkshire pudding looks like a dessert, but it’s not. A light and airy pasta made with meat toppings, it is a starchy dish served with meat, often with gravy or meat juices. In the past, it was sometimes served before the appetizer, either as an appetizer or as a prelude to the main course to follow. Baked in a very hot oven, the pudding puffs up, leaving large pockets of air, and becomes a pastry that is more crusty than inside. It’s excellent for slurping up juices or for buttering and eating as a sandwich.
When the meat was cooked on a spit, the pudding was cooked underneath to catch the drippings. Now that the roast is cooked in an enclosed oven, the Yorkshire pudding is cooked in a side pan.
Yorkshire pudding is made by mixing a thin batter of flour, milk and egg. The ingredients must be at room temperature or the pudding won’t puff up. Drippings of hot fat from the roast are poured into the roasting pan, about a quarter inch deep. Then, the batter is poured into the pan and cooked in the oven. The batter should only fill the pan halfway, as the mixture puffs up as it cooks, and if you overfill the pan, it will overflow and create a very large mess in the bottom of the oven.
This dish is the ancestor of the popover. Popovers are individual Yorkshire puddings baked in muffin tins. Some recipes call for the inclusion of herbs or garlic powder to flavor the pasta.
Yorkshire Pudding can give a very festive and traditional touch to a roast meal. However, modern cooks must take the following precautions. Turn on the exhaust fan in your range hood. The fat from the pudding pan will seep out from under the batter as it rises and will smoke and burn. You may also need to disconnect or remove the battery from your smoke detector if you don’t want your dinner preparations to be interrupted by the fire alarm.
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