The Best Yorkshire Pudding

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 225 g plain flour (1 3/4 cup)
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 300 ml milk (10 fl oz)
• 1 1/2 tablespoons beef drippings, for batter
• 100 g beef drippings, for cooking (3 1/2 oz)
• salt

Recipe

• 1 mix the flour and salt and sift them into a large mixing bowl.
• 2 make a well and add the eggs, 1 1/2tbsp of the beef dripping, half the milk and beat everything until smooth and all the lumps have gone.
• 3 whisk in the remaining milk.
• 4 set batter aside and allow to rest for at least 30 minutes.
• 5 preheat oven to 450°f/230°c/gas 8.
• 6 place a spoonful of dripping in each pudding mold and heat in the oven until piping hot and starting to smoke.
• 7 whisk the batter again and very carefully pour into the hot pudding tins, filling each compartment to about 3/4.
• 8 bake immediately for approximately 10-15 minutes.
• 9 don't open the oven door apart from when you need to check if they are done for the first time after 10 minutes.
• 10 if you're making one large pudding, it will take 30-40 minutes.
• 11 they should be golden brown, risen on the outside with a deep depression in the centre. (sometimes they rise in the middle as well, but that doesn't really matter. ;d).