YORKSHIRE PUDDINGS

[dizzymac]

Can I make them with sr flour?
I really don't want to go out and buy plain.

I should think so. But am not sure. I usually only have plain flour in the house.

they really don't work with sr they are quite different, have done it before can't remember what happened - think they were thick, heavy and didn't rise!

NO, NO, NO!!!!! you can't use sr flour as they don't rise (I know, self RAISING flour implies that anything will RISE) they turn out like flat little pancakey things.

Really?

I didn't know that!

bizarre, isn't it? I moved to Yorkshire about 8 years ago, got out the sr flour and was practically thrown out of the county!!! how was I supposed to know? I'm from Manchester!!!

AH!!!
have done it now so I'll let you know how bad they were.

For about 10 biggish Yorkshires (I use an Ikea muffing tin), I use 6 tbsp plain flour, a pinch of salt, 2 eggs, about half a pint of milk and enough water (about another 100mls?) to give a single cream consistency. Whisk up, leave to stand or not (don't think it makes a huge difference personally) but make sure oil in trays is v hot before adding batter and cook in hot oven for 20 mins.

That's my excuse too, squonk - I'm a southerner! My MIL is Yorkshire born & bred but uses Aunt Bessies . Even I don't do that!

tbh, Aunt Bessies SO much easier. I use them myself nowadays. It was only in the early days, trying to be supermum, superwife and supercook that I made my own. Still have the trays though. How much do you think I'll get for them on ebay? Dizzy - don't forget to let us know how they turned out [smiles knowingly to herself]

Three cheers for Aunt Bessies!!

hip hip....

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Ah squonk....yes the smile is indeed all knowing . They were even better than anticipated.
They were REALLY flat, very crunchy AND impossible to get out of the tin!!!!! It would have been easier and cheaper to have either gone to the shop or bought Auntie Bessie's.

Thankyou all for your advice, next time I'll ask a question before I get desperate.

so sorry they didn't turn out ok (honestly) but did you think my smile was ok for when I become mil? (long way off yet, but want to get practising)

Oh yes, you will make a fab mil I'm sure
I on the other hand had better get practising with my
"can't you do that?" complete with raised eyebrows and smirk.
Would that work do you think?

dizzy, I promise they are not hard to do!! Try the recipe below when you are on your own and don't have any pressure. If they work, you can always freeze them for another time

aunt bessie ones taste sugary and weird. they're so easy to make and taste yum

I have made them very successfully with plain flour in the past. The problem today was lack of plain flour (I hope).
I'll get back on the horse next Sunday. Thanks for the advice though it really has been appreciated. ( This is the 1st thread I have not killed stone dead... so thankyou all)

When I first moved here, I deliberately got the sr flour, made the mix, cooked them.. got the same result as dizzy and it took my "mates" DAYS to figure out what I'd done wrong, because they couldn't understand why anybody would use self RAISING flour when they wanted something to RISE. To me it's just bloody obvious (even if wrong)

lol@ this thread.