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- From: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid)
- Newsgroups: mod.recipes
- Subject: RECIPE: Jordan Pond House popovers
- Date: 30 Nov 85 10:39:40 GMT
- Organization: DEC Western Research Lab, Palo Alto CA
- Approved: reid@glacier.ARPA
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE POND-POPOVERS B "29 Nov 85" 1986
- .RZ "JORDAN POND HOUSE POPOVERS" "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.
- .PP
- 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.
- .IH "2 large popovers"
- .IG "2" "large eggs"
- .IG "1 cup" "whole milk" "250 ml"
- .IG "1 cup" "all-purpose flour" "100 g"
- .AB "(Important! Sift before measuring!!)" ""
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "salt" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "1/8 tsp" "baking soda" "1 ml"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Preheat oven to
- .TE 425 220 .
- Beat the eggs at high speed with an electric mixer for 3 minutes, or until
- the mixture turns lemon yellow.
- .SK 2
- Slow the mixer to a crawl, and dribble in
- .AB "\(12 cup" "125 ml"
- of milk, taking about 20 seconds to pour it in.
- .SK 3
- Into another bowl,
- .AB "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.
- .SK 4
- Turn the mixer off and
- use a rubber spatula to make sure that all of the flour has blended in with
- the liquid.
- .SK 5
- Set the mixer to medium speed and dribble in the remaining
- milk. Blend for 1 minute.
- .SK 6
- 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.
- .SK 7
- 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.)
- .SK 8
- Bake at
- .TE 425 220
- for 15 minutes. Without opening the oven, turn heat to
- .TE 350 175
- and bake for 15 more minutes (20 minutes if your oven door has a window).
- .NX
- Serve immediately, with fresh jam and room-temperature butter.
- .PP
- These popovers turn out significantly better if they are baked in crockery
- custard cups rather than in metal or glass.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- moderate.
- .I Time:
- 15 minutes preparation, 30 minutes baking.
- .I Precision:
- measure carefully.
- .WR
- Brian Reid
- DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto CA
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