Lyndsay Abbott

That has really made me laugh - you're from Yorkshire and using a packet mix LOL !!!! For some reason my friends have problems getting theirs to rise but all I do is put plain flour in a bowl (am going to use the all purpose flour so fingers crossed), make a whole in it, crack some eggs into the whole, mix it slowly and if it's really dry add some milk. Have noticed that the large eggs here are about half the size of the Tescos large eggs so if cooking for say six people would use four eggs. I use Olive oil to grease and re-heat it before pouring in the mixture.
Am not great at cooking but can make Yorkshire puds and will be gutted if I loose that as well as friends, job, normality, small cars, walking to shops and school.
At least I can still buy a good bottle of Pinot Grigio !!!!

clarissageo

Cooking for 6 kids and a minimum of 2 adults every day, your damn right i'm using a packet mix. I like to have a life outside of the kitchen and use any means possible to make my life easier. Believe me, If I could get Aunt Bessies frozen puds here I wouldn't even own an electric mixer.

jumping doris

I can get Auntie Bessie's frozen puds here and I use them and I'm from Yorkshire. But that's the thing....we Yorkshire folk can do what we like

Tracym

Here's a recipe in US measurements, with our flour etc. They always rise for me... (although now I live in terror I'll try to make them for company, and that will be the day they won't). Don't know if this will help.

btw.. we sell "Muffin Top Pans" here - which double perfectly for yorkshire pud tins if anyone needs one.

Yorkshire Pudding

Batter
1/2 pint milk (1 1/5 cup approx.)
4 oz all-purpose flour (scant 1 cup)
2 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
pinch pepper

To Bake
fat drippings from roast beef (ideally, but anything should work)

1 Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2 Beat eggs till foamy with whire whisk.
3 Beat in milk and salt.
4 Gradually beat in flour till smooth.
5 Put some hot fat from roast into 8 tins, 4" across, 1/2" deep; put in oven till sizzling hot.
6 Swirl fat to coat pan; pour batter into tins.
7 Bake 20-30 minutes; do not disturb while cooking.


I matched this recipe up with a one from a friend in Yorkshire - seems the same thing.

Titchski

Any English person immigrating to the US should be advised to bring a Yorkshire Pudding tin with them (sorry Tracy, muffin tins just aren't the same ). Almost every trip I've bought back at least 1 for friends (it was two this trip).

Oh and as for the fat - Mrs Titchski uses bacon fat and her puddings rise just right.

mellybrown

They do indeed rise wonderfully. Cant remember the exact recipe but i used the fat from the roast and got it HOT as I could

I can also get aunt bessies but now i prefer to make my own!!!

Patrick Hasler

How to make corned beef slices ....................

Buy tin of corned beef, open tin, slice contents

jumping doris

My aunt, now long dead, used to make the best Yorkshires in a frying pan on the top of a black lead range. Absloutely wonderful with rabbit gravy.

Sometimes I make mine in a big roasting tin and just cut it up, otherwise I use a tart tin...do they have those here...the tin you'd make jam tarts in?

Patrick Hasler

My missus make the BEST Yorkshire puddings ever EVEN RUSHMAN SAID THAT

She uses small muffin pans to make idividual ones. And she had never seen one before she met me

Rete

I did before they changed the recipe. Was an all purpose staple in our home.

Now if I want white bread I either use Pepperidge Farms or make my own.

mellybrown

actually....

shortcrust pastry (ready roll0
cornbeef
mash tatie
onion
oxo
mash all togehter
put in baking tray
cook
and cut into squares yummy

Mummy in the foothills

Mmmm Yorkshire pud.
I have a beef roast for tonight I'll have to make some.
My mistake when moving here was Corn flour, I went looking and couldn't find any. I bought the wrong stuff, turns out. Corn Flour = Corn Starch.
Lots of grocery stores have a little British section, our Safeways has Bisto, Robinsons, Baked Beans, Salad Cream, aln more. But you pay premium for it.
I've found alternatives to most things I like or given up on them until I get a vistior from UK.

Rete

So you're not using Corned Beef from the meat section of the market but corned beef that comes in tins. Similar to but not corned beef hash.

clarissageo

I realised that I'd forgotten to pack mine when I arrived, so my wonderful mother shipped me 3 over by DHL!

Tracym

I agree - muffin tins are not the same.

But muffin TOP tins appear to be. LOL some of us silly yanks apparently only like the tops of muffins, not the bottom part - so these are pans to make just the top part.

According to Keith anyway, they're pretty much the same as the yorkshire pud tins.

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