From Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone · 2001 · Reconstructed
The Great Hall Roast
Serve when
Serve the instant the golden plates fill themselves at the Welcoming Feast — Dumbledore says a few words, and the empty tables of the Great Hall groan with roast dinner out of nowhere.
Before you start
Roast chicken, potatoes, and Yorkshire puddings all need their own oven time — get everything roasting well before the Sorting Hat sings so it lands together, hot, at the feast.
Cook-along start: before the movie
In the movie
Theatrical
- 00:46:22 The Welcoming Feast: after Dumbledore's greeting, the long tables of the Great Hall magically fill with a mountain of British roast dinner — chickens, roast beef, chops, potatoes, and Yorkshire puddings — as the first-years gape.
The Welcoming Feast is the first time Hogwarts feels like home: the ceiling full of floating candles, the enchanted sky, and food appearing from nowhere in impossible abundance. It's a British Sunday roast scaled to wizard proportions — the film's promise, made in gravy, that Harry has finally arrived somewhere he'll be fed and safe.
Ingredients
- For the Yorkshire puddings:
- For the gravy:
Method
- Rub the chicken with softened butter, salt, and pepper. Roast at 400°F for about 1 hour 20 minutes, until the juices run clear and a thermometer in the thickest part of the thigh reads 165°F. Rest it, tented, 15 minutes.
- Parboil the potatoes 8 minutes, rough them up in the colander, then roast in screaming-hot goose fat for 45 minutes, turning, until craggy and golden.
- Roast the carrots and parsnips alongside until caramelized.
- Yorkshire puddings: whisk the batter and rest it. Heat a little fat in a muffin tin until smoking, pour in the batter, and bake at 425°F for 20 minutes — do not open the oven or they'll sink.
- Make gravy from the chicken drippings: stir in flour, then stock, and simmer to a gloss.
- Carve and pile everything onto the table at once — the Great Hall does not do restraint.
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