This is the most difficult part of a roast dinner.
However, this hasn’t stopped budding chefs from making Yorkshire puddings for Christmas.
This side dish, which is made with batter and vegetables, ranks high on BBC Good Foods’ Christmas searches. The most sought-after Christmas Eve and Christmas Day items.
It is one of the most popular 2020 terms searched on BBC Food. The BBC Food website also featured tips and tricks for cooking perfect turkey crowns and recipe for eggnog, red cabbage and roast potatoes.
Across December, the most popular recipe was for gingerbread men, with over 400,000 visitors looking to bake the festive treat.
Yorkshire puddings topped BBC Good Food’s most-searched recipes for Xmas.
Christmas Eve is here and Christmas Day is coming up, which means that the final minute search for the perfect turkey recipe will be high on your list.
This is only beaten by BBC Food’s Yorkshire pudding recipe, which takes the crown – despite the trimming not always being associated with the traditional Turkey roast.
In 2019, the third most popular recipe is red cabbage.
It’s not surprising that turkey leftovers are a popular choice for festive meals once Boxing Day arrives.
Mary Berry’s Yorkshire pudding recipe is the most popular on BBC food – which the former Bake Off judge describes as ‘foolproof’.
She describes them as “She’s been making them to go with Sunday lunches over the years.” You can watch the video to see how she makes Yorkshire puddings.
The nation has also proved its sweet tooth – and in the run up to Christmas, the baking trays are coming out, with gingerbread men, shortbread and mince pies proving a hit for festive sweet treats.
You don’t need days worth of turkey sandwiches leftover when you have the option to make curries and pie.
There are many people who make leftovers and also create a brunch with pancakes after Christmas.
Yorkshire Pudding takes over from Red Cabbage which was the most searched for recipe on 2020.
From 1st December, Ainsley Harriot’s slow cooker mulled wine recipe held a spot in the top five right up to Boxing Day before dropping off – whether that’s because of a few sore heads or an alcohol shortage, who knows?
Yorkshire puddings have traditionally been served with roast beef. But many families make them for Christmas.
They should be only served with beef, a debate that has been so heated that the Oxford Union debated it in 2014.