Is lard essential?????

Mr_Proctalgia

You will get as many different answers as posters as how YP's are cooked, however mine work for me, they probably won't for you, but I found out that using cake flour (cheap stuff) decent eggs, bit of salt, no fat milk works for me, I whip the bejasus out of my batter then give it a rest, oven (normal old fashioned gas type) on 6, shelf about 4" from the top. Fill tins about 1/3 full put them in wait 3 minutes or so then put the heat up to 8, this makes them "jump" (you can actually see them rise up) once they are risen I put the heat back to 6 and give them about 15 minutes. Sometimes they stick to the oven roof, othertimes they throw themselves out of the tins and commit suicide.

voodoozoe

Well I believe (after starting this thread in the first place) that you are either a born success at Yorkshires or not at all and its time for me to admit I'm not one of the chosen few!!!

I got the oil hotter than hell, put the stuff in and I just got small boulders that seemed to start burning on top but stayed stodgy in middle, I then started again with a big one and got a flat frisbee so I've given up for now.

My dad is great at Yorkshires and my mum is hopeless so I guess its all in the genes!!!!!