Yorkshire Pudding Recipe – NYT Cooking

This recipe is from the British-born chef April Bloomfield, who says it dates back to an era when an English pub might cook a hunk of meat by dangling it from a hook above a roaring fire The “pudding” emerged from a pan full of runny batter that would have been placed beneath the meat to soak up the juices “The heat of the fire would make the Yorkshire pudding rise up, and all the fat …

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