The Basic Popover

Ever heard of Popovers? I just heard about them last night while watching Good Eats. It seemed easy enough to make so I made some. So the ingredients for this 'basic' popover: flour, eggs, salt, butter, and milk. Really easy right? Oh, and a actual popover tin. I used a muffin tin so my popover are really mini-popovers. A popover tin looks like this:



So yea, think muffin tin on steroids... or something like that. So anyway, I made these mini-popovers and they are actually quite interesting. The inside is hollow which allows you to fill them with anything you like. I'm imagining custard and strawberries with a dusting of powder sugar... mmm

So here are what mine look like:



And the inside is hollow, but obviously not big enough to fit in custards and fruit. So I slather it with butter and it's delicious. I thinking these will be really good with a hearty soup or as a mini bread bowl.



So if you've never made popovers, I think you should. It's super easy, just throw all the ingredients into the blender and than pour into the cups. Want the recipe? Here it is.

Ingredients

* 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted and cooled, plus 1 teaspoon room temperature for pan
* 4 3/4 ounces all-purpose flour, approximately 1 cup
* 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
* 2 large eggs, room temperature
* 1 cup whole milk, room temperature

Directions

* Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
* Grease a 6-cup popover pan with the 1 teaspoon of butter.
* Place all of the ingredients into a food processor or blender and process for 30 seconds. Divide the batter evenly between the cups of the popover pan, each should be about 1/3 to 1/2 full. Bake on the middle rack of the oven for 40 minutes. Remove the popovers to a cooling rack and pierce each in the top with a knife to allow steam to escape. Serve warm.