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Good Yorkshire Pudding

A baked batter of eggs, flour, salt, and milk cooked in a hot oven.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Good 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 the batter

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C) with a roasting joint inside.

  2. Whisk the eggs well and strain them.

  3. Gradually mix the eggs with the flour and salt.

  4. Slowly add milk until the batter is the consistency of thin cream.

  5. Beat the batter briskly just before pouring it into the hot pan.

Bake

  1. Bake until the pudding is firm and well-colored on the surface.

  2. Divide into quarters to brown the underside.

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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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. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide structure and set the pudding as they cook, giving it lift and a firm body.
Flour
Forms the batter's body, which sets around the steam to give the pudding its shape.
Milk
Thins the batter to a pourable consistency and adds moisture that turns to steam in the oven.

The step that matters

Beat the batter briskly just before pouring it into the hot pan.. Beating incorporates air and starts gluten forming, which helps the pudding rise. Pouring into a very hot pan makes the batter sizzle and puff immediately; letting it sit lets the air and starch settle, reducing lift.

“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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