Title: Yorkshire Puffs
Categories: Appetizer Southern
Yield: 7 Servings

1	ts	Salt
1/2	c	Water; boiling
1/2	c	Shortening
1	c	Flour, all-purpose
4		Eggs
1	lb	Ground beef
1/2	ts	Onion salt
1/2	ts	Worcestershire sauce
		Shortening; hot

Combine salt, boiling water, and shortening. Bring to a boil. Add flour, all at once, stirring vigorously until ball forms in center of pan. Cool slightly. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition until mixture is smooth. Mixture should be very stiff.

Brown ground beef. Pour off drippings. Add onion salt and Worcestershire sauce to ground beef and add to puff mixture. Heat shortening to 365 degrees. Drop puff mixture by teaspoonfuls into hot shortening. Deep fry 3 to 5 minutes or until golden brown.

SOURCE: Southern Living Magazine, sometime in the 1970s. Typos by Nancy Coleman.

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