Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding

Ingredients

• Rib roast 
• Beef suet 
• 3 eggs 
• 1 pint sweet milk 
• 3 rounded tablespoons of flour 
• salt and pepper

Directions

1. Rub a rib roast with salt and pepper, and if not very fat, put in pieces of beef suet.
2. On top and around in pan place pieces of suet.
3. With these drippings baste every ten minutes, adding no water at all.
4. For rare beef, allow 15 minutes to the pound; well done, 20 minutes.
5. Within 20 minutes of serving remove roast.
6. Pour all drippings into a can for future use except about two tablespoonful. 
7.  Into the two tablespoons pour the pudding. 
8. For the pudding, beat three eggs together well.
9. To this add a pint of sweet milk.
10.  Add 3 rounded tablespoons of flour measured before sifting.
11.  Add salt and pepper to taste.
12. Cook until set.
13. Cut in squares and serve around roast. 

This is the real old English roast-beef, and if basted properly, is very delicious.

Source —  New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Austin Irons
Louisiana Anthology
July 19, 2022