Roast beef and Yorkshire puddings

[missbishi]

This is a very popular dish in the UK but I find it really hard to get the Yorkshires to cook properly. They rise fine but refuse to cook thoroughly and stay soggy at the bottom. I make sure the oil is the pan is spitting before I pour the batter and ensure the oven is hot enough but I never seem to have much luck.

Does anyone here have the secret to success?

 

[teamshepherd]

Yes I have the secret to success and I call it buying pre-made ones! Sorry I know thats cheating, I tried making them from scratch and it was a big flop. Seems easy enough though, doesn't it?

 

[Lullabelle]

This is a very popular dish in the UK but I find it really hard to get the Yorkshires to cook properly. They rise fine but refuse to cook thoroughly and stay soggy at the bottom. I make sure the oil is the pan is spitting before I pour the batter and ensure the oven is hot enough but I never seem to have much luck.

Does anyone here have the secret to success?

Perhaps you are putting in too much batter, you are right to make sure the fat is spitting hot. Do you take the pan out of the oven and put it on a cold surface when you pour? It should go onto a hot surface, turn on a gas/electric ring to keep the bottom really hot.

 

[Food4thought]

I was born in Yorkshire where originally it was traditional to cook one big Yorkshire pudding for the whole family and serve it with gravy, before the meat course.

I make a big one by pouring batter into a big hot meat dish that is covered in oil. Then after cooking it cutting it up to serve with roast beef. This method has always worked for me. I've never tried making individual ones.

 

[Lullabelle]

I was born in Yorkshire where originally it was traditional to cook one big Yorkshire pudding for the whole family and serve it with gravy, before the meat course.

I make a big one by pouring batter into a big hot meat dish that is covered in oil. Then after cooking it cutting it up to serve with roast beef. This method has always worked for me. I've never tried making individual ones.

My gran was a Yorkshire lass and she used to make a big pudding and us kids ate it with her own made jam

 

[Ella]

Like pancake batter you should let it rest for a while and then add to a well oiled and hot baking tray. Many people say the hotter the better as they will rise and be fluffy and of course a pre heated oven. I've not tried it but many people say adding sparkling water also makes them rise.

I love yorkshire puddings, especially big ones.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

This is a very popular dish in the UK but I find it really hard to get the Yorkshires to cook properly. They rise fine but refuse to cook thoroughly and stay soggy at the bottom. I make sure the oil is the pan is spitting before I pour the batter and ensure the oven is hot enough but I never seem to have much luck.

Does anyone here have the secret to success?

I was taught a number of tricks over the years both by my grandmother and whilst working in the industry for a short time. For me they work every time, but they are not something you want to be watching your waistline when eating them...

The 1st is the four used for making the Yorkshire pudding. You need a 50/50 mix of self raising and strong flour.

The 2nd was to ensure that there was plenty of oil (hot and spitting) in the cooking vessel which should be shallow and large, not small and deep. Experience had taught me that metal is better than glass, batter should be no deeper than 1cm in the vessel.

The 3rd was heat the oil to spitting hot first (we used a ring rather than the oven when working in a resturant) and to give it a minute or so over that ring whilst the batter was poured into the other batter pans on other rings... Helps with the cooking underneath bit...

The 4th was to ensure that the hot vessel with the hot oil and hot batter was put onto a hot metal baking tray when in the very hot oven

The 5th was that the oven was as hot as you could get it (230 degree centigrade)...

I'll try to locate her recipe later on for you.

 

[Lullabelle]

Our dinner this evening, my husband's yorkshire puds were perfect