Here's my recipe:
2 Tablespoons butter, drippings or vegetable oil (I like butter, gives a delicious flavor to the crust)
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup flour (I do this with whole grain flour and it turns out really yummy)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon vegetable oil (here I do use oil, as it blends with the other ingredients better than butter)
- Heat oven to 420 degrees F (395 if using a pyrex pie plate)
- Put the 2 Tablespoons butter (or other fat of your choosing) in pie dish and place in heated oven until melted -- takes 3 to 5 minutes. After it has melted, swirl around the pie plate.
- Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, using a hand mixer, beat together eggs, milk, flour, salt and 1 Tablespoon oil. Pour into pie plate on top of hot melted butter. Bake until puffy and golden brown, about 25 minutes. Let stand 2-3 minutes, then cut into wedges and serve.
Do you know how Yorkshire pudding came to be? In financially-challenged homes in England, a small joint of beef had to feed many. Before the meat course was served, the family ate the Yorkshire pudding, flavored with drippings from the meat. This helped to fill them up, so that the small amount of meat could feed the entire household. An original frugal food.
And tonight our family is supping on "garbage" soup and Yorkshire pudding. "Garbage" soup is a story for another time. Don't worry, it's not as bad as it sounds.
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