I am a good cook but................. ........

I can make any kind of cake and pastry but scones defeat me, no idea why🤷‍♀️

I also always use my food processor for pastry, crumble or scones. I think I must have hot hands as I can't make them well by hand.
I don't have any trouble with Yorkshires though, I use a very basic recipe and preheat the greased trays in a 210 degree oven. I have two types of tray; deep muffin tins or shallower Yorkshire holes, depending on how big I want them. Once they've risen well I turn the oven down to 190 so that they can cook inside without burning.
So many people seem to have trouble with them, I tried to help my daughter and my daughter in law and found that they didn't leave the batter to rest for a while and didn't pre-heat the oven and tins. Perhaps some ovens simply don't get hot enough?

Anything with yeast, scones, pancakes (Scotch), and until recently the dreaded poached eggs!

Skydancer

I can’t do gravy. It’s never thick enough and is tasteless. We don’t eat meat so it’s difficult. Can anyone please help?

My gravy is OK, but if I'm in a hurry I use Bisto Best. The lamb one is particularly good.

The only bread I've ever made came out like bricks. I'd defy anyone to slice it up!

GrannyGravy13

Jelly, it is my bete noir I even struggle with the cubes.

I can knock up a pavlova, most cakes, boeuf en croute, (or any other pastry involved dish) my Yorkshire puddings touch the roof of the oven, but jelly…

Did you know that you can put cubes in a bowl and micro to melt? Then just add boiling water.

The trick is to measure the water, and that means it cools down, but if you micro the jelly it stays really (dangerously) hot, so when you add the off boiling measure water it will still mix

I couldn’t do Yorkshire puds until I found Mary Berry’s recipe. That works every time, even for me.

Another here who is, I’m ashamed to say, hopeless at Yorkshire pudding! I shall be turning in my white rose badge! DD makes fabulous Yorkshire puddings but rarely cooks a Sunday lunch. When they come to me, we have ready made ones!

Anything battered is my no go area, my nan used to make the best fish and chips I have ever had but I cannot get mine anything like it.
I can make yorkshires, scones, pastry or breads with no problems.

Yorkshire puddings are lovely when just for me, but when I want them to be special for visitors they are always rubbish!

Who needs pastry anyway? ( I’ve never been any good at pastry, but it doesn’t bother me).
I can’t even make crumble or scones any more as my food processor is broken.

Pastry……..buy it ready made now.

I can’t do gravy. It’s never thick enough and is tasteless. We don’t eat meat so it’s difficult. Can anyone please help?

Kindred spirits then ChocLG! 😊

On a more serious note, my pastry is only good for a missile.

I'm with FGT - I'm an OK cook, but most of the time- frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

Grannygravy13 I envy your ability to make a Pavlova. I’ve tried a few times but they always ‘weep’.
I can make a decent loaf though even if I say so myself!

Rosti completely defeats me. I had a delicious one once in Germany and have been trying, and failing, to emulate it ever since.

I don't consider myself a good cook but I can rustle up a decent cake but not scones. I don't know why they end up like thick biscuits. My DH eats everything I put in front of him so my cooking can't be that bad.

I think his awful baking has affected my ability to spell properly!🥴

In the spirit of this post, I'd like to mention DH. Sine retiring he has taken up baking with great enthusiasm!!!!
He makes tons of cakes, scones, etc but they are all ruddy awful. Please make it stop. 🙃

I would never consider myself a good cook but I’m still here😂😂.
I made a recipe once called lemon liver. It was horrible even the cat couldn’t be tempted and she loved liver.

My pastry is always perfect, but that’s down to my trusty old Kenwood Chef - a wedding present 50 years ago!

I can’t make yorkshires like my mum used to make. Hers were all big and fluffy where mine only rise up a bit and are thick inside.I gave up trying years ago and just buy the frozen ones now.

Yorkshire pudding. I accepted defeat some time ago and buy Aunt Bessie’s for the odd occasion - it’s not a regular thing here.
Ditto toad in the hole.

I don't enjoy making bread .
I can make nan or chapatti - they are easy .
I can make any type of pastry and have devised new cake recipes ,but I don't think that my biscuits aren't that great - even the dog refused them so they must be bad .
Maybe when a recipe goes wrong I think that it undermines your confidence and you don't really feel like making another potential failure .