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Yorkshire Pudding

A baked batter of oats, wheatmeal, eggs, milk, pepper, and salt, topped with butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Yorkshire Pudding

Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Yorkshire Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. In a bowl, whip the eggs until well combined.

  3. Add the milk, wheatmeal, oats, pepper, and salt to the eggs and mix to form a batter.

  4. Grease a shallow Yorkshire pudding tin with butter.

Bake

  1. Pour the batter into the prepared tin and scatter a few bits of butter on top.

  2. Bake for 1 hour until golden and puffed.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Oats + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,939 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Oats + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,119 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the batter and provide structure as they set, helping the pudding rise and hold its shape.
Milk
Adds moisture and helps the batter steam and puff in the hot oven.
Fine wheatmeal
Provides the flour structure that sets as the pudding bakes.
Breakfast oats
Adds body and a slightly nutty texture to the batter.
Butter
Adds fat that helps the pudding brown and gives rich flavour.

The step that matters

Preheat the oven and tin until very hot before pouring the batter. A hot tin and oven create steam and fat sizzle that make the batter rise sharply. Pouring into a cool tin or oven gives a flat, dense pudding.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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