Recommendations for using with baking - muffins, Yorkshire Puds etc to get them to rise properly.

OH found self raising flour in Loblaws the other week and our yorkshires turned out lovely.

Thank you

really?? I never have used self raising flour in yorkshires. Plain flour is whats called for, no raising agents needed.

Well he used self raising and they were big and lovely. (Yorkshires that is)

Right when I'm wrong I'll say I'm wrong.

Just double checked with OH and he tells me that he used the all purpose flour but did throw in a spoon full of the self raising stuff just to see what would happen. So big yorkshires was the result.

The self raising stuff was apparently for the dumplins.

hangs head, take off pinny and lets OH finish cooking dinner

I always use Superstores bread flour and make excellent yorkshires (even if I do say so myself!)

This works beautifully every times for me. If possible make the batter well in advance. I make mine after breakfast for cook at 5-6pm - you could make it that day before and keep it in the fridge, but allow it time out of the fridge before using.

vegetable oil
290ml/½ pint milk
4 eggs
255g/9oz plain flour
salt and black pepper


Put a little vegetable oil in the yorkshire pudding tins and put in the oven to preheat.
Mix milk, beaten eggs and seasoning
Whisk in flour
Pour batter into hot tins
Bake at 220C.425F or gas mark 7 for 10 minutes, or until puffy and raised.

I am going to try this. My Yorkshires come out flat whatever flour I use. Asked a Yorkshire friend what the answer was to nicely risen Yorkshire puds and she said that I should buy a packet of YP mix from the supermarket as she does!

This does seem to be a problem in North America. My sister-in-law says no matter what she does they just don't rise for her in the US, but when she makes them back in the UK they rise just fine. Reckons it's something to do with the flour...

I know that when you are at a high altitude there is a problem with rising of cakes etc, but I don't make my YPuds standing on a ladder so I don't understand.

ok ~ok..i just have to ask..what is a yorkshire..???


( am going to go google to see if i can find one..then again wouldn't know what i was looking at!!!)

However!..if anyone has a successful recipe for scones please do share!!..

i tried them with the all purpose flour and some baking powder.....still flat!!

am i on the right track..???>> and what do you eat them with..? what is so yummy about them...

I recommend

www.recipezaar.com

as a great site for anybody interested in cooking. Just hundreds and hundreds of recipes of all sorts and from all over the world including North America. And it is free..

You'll probably find - and that's to start - about twenty recipes for scones..