Tuesdays with Dorie ~ Popovers

Popovers with my homemade fig jam….yum!

The pick for this weeks Baking with Julia comes from Marion Cunningham for Popovers.  It’s been a long time since I’ve made popovers so, I was really looking forward to this weeks recipe. I have a fascination with popovers. They have an almost custard like inside and taste so wonderfully delicious!  They rise so incredibly high that, just taking them out of the oven evokes excitement! Popovers are also easy to make, with simple ingredients…flour, eggs, milk, a touch of salt and some butter. Put all the ingredients into a blender and mix well. They pop because of the high amount of liquid in the batter, that creates steam and causes the popover to puff up!  And they're versatile, they can be made for breakfast or dessert. I just found a recipe on line for Blueberry-coconut cream popovers.  Don’t they sound great? I know I’ll be giving those a try! 
I made them for our second breakfast yesterday morning. Sounds strange I know but, we get up very early and eat soon afterwards.  Then, my husband and I always take a morning break together, and have one last cup of tea and coffee before we start our day.  Usually only tea and coffee!  Most of our morning breaks take place out on our deck, so that we can enjoy our humming birds and the morning sunshine. However, today we also enjoyed wonderful popovers with some fig jam!  It was a very good morning!  I made six popovers and froze four. A treat for another day!

I made mine in custard cups…as they baked….

they rose out of the cups

An odd shape…..

but totally delicious!

I froze the extras so that we could enjoy these another morning

Note to self…make popovers more often

And a word about Marion Cunningham, who just passed away at age 90.  I recently was part of a group  that blogged weekly about the women chosen by Gourmet magazine as the 50 Women Game Changers in Food.  I could not believe that Ms. Cunningham was not part of that list. She was not only very influential to me and my interest in cooking, but to a whole generation of home cooks. The "Fannie Farmer" was my go to cookbook, while I was learning to cook as a young bride.  So here’s to you Marion…Number 1 on my list! 

If you would like the recipe for the Popovers, please visit my friend Paula of Vintage Kitchen Notes and Amy of Bake With Amy our lovely hosts for this week!! Thank you ladies! It can also be found in the cookbook Baking with Julia by Dorie Greenspan.