Savvybearcat.com

Save to favorite Discuss Jordan Pond House Popovers recipe

Write a comment Print Jordan Pond House Popovers recipe

Print this recipe Email Jordan Pond House Popovers recipe to friend

Email this recipe

Jordan Pond House Popovers

Category: Breads

Author: The Savvybearcat

Date: 1/1/2007

Rating:

(4.0) by 2 users

Ingredients:

2 large Eggs
1 cup Whole milk
1/2 tsp Salt
1/8 tsp Baking soda
1 cup Flour, all-purpose (Important! Sift before measuring!!)

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Beat the eggs at high speed with an
electric mixer for 3 minutes, or until the mixture turns lemon
yellow. Slow the mixer to a crawl and dribble in about 1/2 cup of
milk, taking about 20 seconds to pour it in.

Into another bowl, sift the flour and measure 1 cup as exactly as you
can, sift 100 g flour then add salt and baking soda and sift again.
With the mixer still running on its slowest speed, add the dry
ingredients to the eggs and milk. Turn the mixer off and use a rubber
spatula to make sure that all of the flour has blended in with the
liquid.

Set the mixer to medium speed and dribble in the remaining milk.
Blend for 1 minute. Turn the mixer to its highest speed and beat for
10 minutes (or 5 minutes if you have a Kitchen-aid style mixer that
uses a wire whip for beating). Extra beating can't hurt.

Filter the batter through a fine-mesh screen strainer to remove any
lumps, then pour into well-buttered popover cups or custard cups. (If
you must use a muffin tin, fill only the 4 corners.) Bake at 425
degrees F. for 15 minutes. Without opening the oven, turn heat to 350
degrees F. and bake for 15 more minutes (20 minutes if your oven door
has a window).

Serve immediately, with fresh jam and room-temperature butter.

NOTES:

* Popovers from the Jordan Pond teahouse -- In Acadia National Park,
near Bar Harbor Maine, is Jordan Pond. A century ago the teahouse at
Jordan Pond was a gathering place where the aristocracy had tea and
popovers with strawberry jam each day at 4 o'clock.

The Jordan Pond Tea House burned down in 1978, but has been rebuilt.
It now serves people sporting clothes announcing "Mommy and Daddy
went to Naugatuck, and all they brought me was this crummy shirt,"
and who show up in station wagons, but the popovers are the same that
were served to the idle rich of another era. Yield: 2 large popovers.

* These popovers turn out significantly better if they are baked in
crockery custard cups rather than in metal or glass.

: Difficulty: moderate.
: Time: 15 minutes preparation, 30 minutes baking.
: Precision: measure carefully.

: Brian Reid
: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto CA
: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM -or-
{ihnp4,ucbvax,decvax,sun,pyramid}!decwrl!reid

: Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust