Yorkshire Pudding
South Africa
Rédacteur en chef
London, United Kingdom ·
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London, United Kingdom ·
A batter of eggs, flour, milk and water poured into smoking hot fat and baked until it quadruples in volume. It is British, and it sits in Worldwide Recipes with its URL unchanged. It is one of the few dishes where the physics is the recipe. The batter must go into fat that is genuinely smoking hot, the instant heat turns the water in the batter to steam, which inflates the structure before the egg and flour set around it. Fat that is merely hot gives you a flat, greasy disc. Preheating the tin with the fat in it for a full ten minutes is not padding. The overnight rest is the other thing that separates good Yorkshires from adequate ones. Resting lets the flour hydrate fully and the gluten relax, which produces a more dramatic rise. The source says up to three days in the fridge and it is right, the batter genuinely improves. This recipe is unusually precise, giving weights in grams alongside cup measures, which is rare in the archive and welcome. The water alongside the milk is deliberate: water produces more steam than milk, so it rises higher, while the milk gives flavour and colour. Beef dripping is traditional. Lard, shortening and vegetable oil all work. Africa has no equivalent, though popovers and Dutch baby pancakes are relatives.
Combine the eggs, flour, milk, water and salt in a medium bowl and whisk to a smooth batter.
Let the batter rest at room temperature for at least 30 minutes. Better still, transfer it to an airtight container and refrigerate overnight or for up to 3 days, resting hydrates the flour and relaxes the gluten, and the rise is noticeably better for it. Take it out while the oven heats.
Set the oven rack to the middle position and heat the oven to 450°F / 230°C.
Divide the dripping or other fat evenly between two 8-inch cast iron or oven-safe non-stick skillets, two 6-well popover tins, one 12-well muffin tin or one 24-well mini muffin tin.
Preheat the tins in the oven until the fat is smoking hot, about 10 minutes. This is not optional, the batter must hit fat hot enough to flash its water into steam.
Move the tins to a heatproof surface and divide the batter evenly between the wells, filling them between half and three-quarters full. If using skillets, fill about a quarter of the way.
Return them to the oven immediately.
Bake until the puddings have roughly quadrupled in volume, are deep brown all over, crisp to the touch and sound hollow when tapped, about 15 minutes for small ones, around 25 for popover- or skillet-sized.
Serve immediately, or cool completely, freeze for up to 3 months and reheat in a hot oven.
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