Excellent! I'm sure Howard would enjoy it, and hope VT Grand will be able to (if it is in the vicinity).
I have assembled the five popover recipes I have: Three from the Toronto Ladies' Home Cookbook (1889) The Woman's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery (1969) King Arthur Flour (2015).
The old recipes used the fewest eggs; King Arthur uses the most, and pre-warms the milk and eggs. The KAF popover blog suggests testing the oven setting with an oven thermometer, which I will do. Ditto placing a cookie sheet on the top rack of the oven. I will use the KAF recipe. I might even set the oven temperature a bit higher than they say, as per a note I had made on the Woman's Day recipe way back when.
This might give me some ideas for adjusting my dutch baby recipe... or trying a frying pan-sized popover and then hybridizing the two? I tried separating the eggs and whipping the egg whites before mixing the dutch babies, and that was a mistake (albeit not a bad-tasting one); the mixture didn't rise to speak of. Hmmm...I must check Yorkshire pudding recipes.
Well, the oven thermostat is accurate, the popovers popped and stayed popped, but I allowed myself to be distracted and failed to turn down the temperature at 20 minutes, only doing so at 26 minutes. The popovers were in consequence over-browned and dry (much less so in the popover pans than in the muffin tin I used to accommodate excess batter). So next time I will set TWO timers, and reduce the amounts of everything--three eggs in place of four, milk and flour in proportion. (I know that doesn't always work.) I think the deciding factor is probably the extra egg; that made the difference in a Yorkshire pudding contest in Leeds some years ago according to The Guardian.
15,000 turn out for Bernie in Seattle... at the second event of the day, that is. Once again (at the first event), he shows he can deal with aggressive hecklers. Wonder how HRC would deal with them? Probably if they sneaked through event security they would be hauled off the stage by the big guys in bulging suits and dark glasses. I swan, this campaign season is shaping up to be far more entertaining than I had expected; I probably have a lot of company in that regard.
For now at least, I can daydream about a summit meeting among Prime Ministers Jeremy Corbyn and Tom Mulcair and President Sanders...
My goodness, Alan, so sorry we all left you hanging today. Thanks for filling up the blog with such interesting posts and links!! Well done!! Can't wait to hear how your next batch of popovers comes out!
Excellent! I'm sure Howard would enjoy it, and hope VT Grand will be able to (if it is in the vicinity).
ReplyDeleteI have assembled the five popover recipes I have:
Three from the Toronto Ladies' Home Cookbook (1889)
The Woman's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery (1969)
King Arthur Flour (2015).
The old recipes used the fewest eggs; King Arthur uses the most, and pre-warms the milk and eggs. The KAF popover blog suggests testing the oven setting with an oven thermometer, which I will do. Ditto placing a cookie sheet on the top rack of the oven. I will use the KAF recipe. I might even set the oven temperature a bit higher than they say, as per a note I had made on the Woman's Day recipe way back when.
This might give me some ideas for adjusting my dutch baby recipe... or trying a frying pan-sized popover and then hybridizing the two? I tried separating the eggs and whipping the egg whites before mixing the dutch babies, and that was a mistake (albeit not a bad-tasting one); the mixture didn't rise to speak of.
Hmmm...I must check Yorkshire pudding recipes.
--Alan
Well, the oven thermostat is accurate, the popovers popped and stayed popped, but I allowed myself to be distracted and failed to turn down the temperature at 20 minutes, only doing so at 26 minutes. The popovers were in consequence over-browned and dry (much less so in the popover pans than in the muffin tin I used to accommodate excess batter). So next time I will set TWO timers, and reduce the amounts of everything--three eggs in place of four, milk and flour in proportion. (I know that doesn't always work.) I think the deciding factor is probably the extra egg; that made the difference in a Yorkshire pudding contest in Leeds some years ago according to The Guardian.
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15,000 turn out for Bernie in Seattle... at the second event of the day, that is. Once again (at the first event), he shows he can deal with aggressive hecklers. Wonder how HRC would deal with them? Probably if they sneaked through event security they would be hauled off the stage by the big guys in bulging suits and dark glasses. I swan, this campaign season is shaping up to be far more entertaining than I had expected; I probably have a lot of company in that regard.
ReplyDeleteFor now at least, I can daydream about a summit meeting among Prime Ministers Jeremy Corbyn and Tom Mulcair and President Sanders...
--Alan
My goodness, Alan, so sorry we all left you hanging today. Thanks for filling up the blog with such interesting posts and links!! Well done!! Can't wait to hear how your next batch of popovers comes out!
ReplyDeleteVT*Grand had a BLAST at the Circus with us!! Thanks for your kind words.
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