18th Century Yorkshire Pudding recipe | Legend says It has Been Around since The War of the Roses

 

"Legend has it the tradition dates back to the War of the Roses and a 1455 battle in Stubbins, Lancashire, between the House of Lancaster and the House of York. The two sides are said to have run out of ammunition and resorted to throwing food at each other - black pudding from Lancashire and Yorkshire puddings from Yorkshire." ("War of the Roses")


Original Recipe:

Hannah Glasse's recipe [1747]


"A Yorkshire Pudding.
Take a quart of milk, four eggs, and a little salt, make it up into a thick batter with flour, like pancake batter. You must have a good piece of meat at the fire; take a stew-pan and put some dripping in, set it on the fire; when it boils, pour in your pudding; let it bake on the fire till you think it is nigh enough, then turn a plate upside down in the dripping-pan, that the dripping may not be blacked; set your stew-pan on it under your meat, and let the dripping drop on the pudding, and the heat of the fire come to it, to make it of a fine brown. When your meat is done and sent to table, drain all the fat from your pudding, and set it on the fire again to dry a little; then slide it as dry as you can into a dish; melt some butter, and pour it into a cup, and set it in the middle of the pudding. It is an excellent good pudding; the gravy of athe meat eats well with it."
---The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy



Interpretation of Recipe:

** This will fill 4 muffin pans (with 12 cups per pan) **

4 cups milk
4 eggs
1 Tbsp salt
4 cups flour

1 cup beef or pork fat



Preferred Modern Recipe:
 
3 eggs
3/4 cup milk
3/4 cup flour
3/4 tsp salt

1/4 cup beef or pork fat, or melted butter, or canola or olive oil

Mix ingredients together. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Let the batter sit for at least 30 minutes to an hour. Put a  the animal fat / melted butter / oil in the pans. Bake for 5 minutes. Then, put the batter in the pans and bake for 10-12 minutes. Enjoy!






Works Cited:

Glasse, Hannah. The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. 1747. http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodpuddings.html. 14 March 2020.

"War of the Roses." Yorkshire Post. 10 September 2018. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/war-roses-2018-lancashire-takes-yorkshire-world-black-pudding-throwing-championships-581336. 14 March 2020.

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