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🌋CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 10.🌋

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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    My grandson couldn't believe his ears when I asked him to delete the Spotify app off my new phone. Hardly ever listen to any music, although OH likes classical stuff.  
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    How much time that could have been spent researching the virus or whatever they do was wasted preparing for their visit?
    Too posh to mask was an unfortunate message at this time. I think we've got the message that masking, distancing and taxes are only for the lower orders already.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Today's grump is that the yorkshire pudding was flat as a pancake...  no idea what I did wrong.  Hey ho...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    My mum only ever used SR for Yorkshire’s, they would touch the roof of the oven, mine don’t!
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Equal quantities of flour, egg and milk, by volume. 
    Scalding hot oven.
    Perfect every time  :)
    The great Brian Turner's Yorkshires recipe, and the only one I use. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    My mum always put a lump of lard in the tins, then put it in the oven till it was smoking hot, then put the batter in and bang it back in the oven. She gave up when dad said he preferred Aunt Bessies.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    My husband spent some time in the North East where it was eaten with jam or whatever as a deseert.
    I've heard of jam omelettes. They sort of make sense too but I've never fancied them either.
    YP  beloved of carveries full up your plate and there's no room for anything expensive.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    pansyface said:
    We can compare notes. I have never had a failure yet with this recipe.

    1. Oven set to hottest temp possible.

    2. Roasting tin 10”x 15” with vertical sides, not those curvy ones, (most important) and 3” deep.

    3. The same measure (teacup) used to measure everything, washed and dried as necessary.)


    1 teacup plain flour
    1 teacup milk/water mixed
    1 teacup eggs (3-4, generally)
    1 teaspoon malt vinegar
    1 pinch of salt.

    Mix everything in a bowl, beat it vigorously for two minutes by hand and leave it to settle at room temp for at least 30 mins. Meanwhile,

    Put roasting tin in oven for ten mins to heat up.

    Remove tin when hot and  pour in a good tablespoon of olive oil (vegetarian) or whatever fatty animal byproduct you fancy.

    Return pan to oven for three minutes to get smoking hot.

    Beat the mixture briefly once more, a few seconds is all.

    Remove pan and pour in mixture. Return pan to oven pronto.

    Say “Nah then behave thissen else al throw thee aht t’ birds.”

    Cook for twenty minutes.


    PS, you will notice that this makes one “gret big puddin”. No arty farty little “yorkshires”.

    Yorkshire pudding was eaten as a first course, a slab of tasty fat and carbohydrate, loosened with gravy, to fill you up so that you didn’t feel the lack of expensive meat in the second course.

    PPS, In the norther part of Sheffield (maybe elsewhere too) it is traditionally flavoured with dried herbs. Not by me though.





    My Nan sometimes put herbs (mostly sage I think) in her Yorkshire pud. She called it "seasoned pudding". She would also mix up the batter first thing in the morning to cook for Sunday dinner (that's dinner in the middle of the day, not tea time).
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    My mum used to put currants in the batter, served with custard if we hadn’t had much for dinner.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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