512. Yorkshire Pudding

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
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The Modern Housewife
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Ingredients (10)
Instructions (10)
  1. Put six tablespoonfuls of flour into a basin, with six eggs, a pinch of salt, and a quarter of a pint of milk.
  2. Mix well together with a wooden spoon, adding the remaining three quarters of a pint of milk by degrees.
  3. Set a shallow tin dish under a piece of roasting beef before the fire.
  4. An hour before serving, pour in the batter, leaving it under the meat until quite set and rather browned upon the top.
  5. Turn the pudding over upon the dish you intend serving it upon.
  6. Place it again before the fire until the other side is browned.
  7. Serve with the meat.
Alternative Baking Method
  1. Bake the pudding under a small piece of beef of about five or six pounds.
  2. Alternatively, bake it beneath a shoulder of mutton.
  3. If the fire is not large enough, bake the pudding in an oven separate, adding a few spoonfuls of gravy.
Original Text
512. Yorkshire Pudding.—Put six tablespoonfuls of flour into a basin, with six eggs, a pinch of salt, and a quarter of a pint of milk, mix well together with a wooden spoon, adding the remaining three quarters of a pint of milk by degrees; you have previously set a shallow tin dish under a piece of roasting beef before the fire; an hour before serving pour in the batter, leaving it under the meat until quite set and rather browned upon the top, when turn the pudding over upon the dish you intend serving it upon, and again place it before the fire until the other side is browned, when it is ready to serve with the meat. This pudding is also very excellent baked under a small piece of beef of about five or six pounds. It is also frequently baked beneath a shoulder of mutton; also baked in an oven separate (with a few spoonfuls of gravy added), if the fire is not large enough.
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