"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 this Historical 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
My Modern Interpretation of this 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 400ºF. Let the batter
sit for at least 30 minutes to an hour. Put the animal fat / melted
butter / oil in the pans. Bake for 5 minutes. Then, put the batter in
the pans and bake for 10-15 minutes, until golden brown. Enjoy!
Works Cited:
Glasse, Hannah. The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. 1747. http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodpuddings.html. 14 March 2020.
Glasse, Hannah. The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy Title Page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Cookery_Made_Plain_and_Easy#/media/File:Art_of_Cookery_frontispiece.jpg. 28 January 2022.
"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.
"Yorkshire Comfort." https://www.whitecap.ca/Yorkshire-Comfort. 28 January 2022.
