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Post by cinnabar on Nov 12, 2016 17:07:12 GMT -5
Made these and they turned out good. Pumpkin, but without any pumpkin, just the spice. They tasted like spiced French toast. Made them from 3 or 4 different recipes Not bad for the first try. Think they should be bigger, so will try a little different recipe next time. The pan was a buck fifty estate find or else I would not have gotten it.
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Post by mach12 on Nov 12, 2016 19:22:02 GMT -5
Those sound good. I make popovers quite often but have never tried adding spices or other flavoring. I've tried different recipes but keep coming back to the plain old Betty Crocker cookbook version, though those are really good. I'm going to have to get adventurous.
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Post by nana on Nov 12, 2016 19:44:19 GMT -5
Cinnabar, was your pan a Popovaire?
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Post by cinnabar on Nov 12, 2016 21:35:56 GMT -5
NIB Progressive. Sadly not vintage
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Post by pooka on Nov 13, 2016 7:28:45 GMT -5
cinnabar, you always put the rest of us to shame. You produce masterful results with such basic tools. Your stove is not much of a step up from camping out, yet you wield it like a Jedi master.
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Post by Chuckie on Nov 13, 2016 10:18:13 GMT -5
NIB Progressive. Sadly not vintage ...and once more you EVIL CHAMBERS WENCHES send me on a quest for a pan I have NO IDEA how I lived without before your posting(s)!!! A POX upon YE!!! CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by mach12 on Nov 13, 2016 11:06:13 GMT -5
NIB Progressive. Sadly not vintage ...and once more you EVIL CHAMBERS WENCHES send me on a quest for a pan I have NO IDEA how I lived without before your posting(s)!!! A POX upon YE!!! CHEERS! Chuckie Man, I keep discovering how little I know about these cool pieces of cookware, techniques and so on too! I've always really enjoyed cooking and learning more is fun but even after all of these years I'm still such a novice. So here's the embarrassing part, I mentioned this thread to my wife and she told me I have a popover pan, and then pulled a Griswold cast iron pan out of the drawer, The cups are kind of separated and are a bit deeper than regular muffin cups. I just thought it was cool when I stumbled across it and it must have been cheap (like me). She thought I knew what it was for. I remember seeing one similar to the one in cinnabar's post in an antique store but it looked like a stainless frame with aluminum cups. I had no idea what I was really looking at. Might still be there, so I guess there's an antique store visit in our very near future. (I'll take any excuse).
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Post by nana on Nov 13, 2016 11:28:22 GMT -5
NIB Progressive. Sadly not vintage ...and once more you EVIL CHAMBERS WENCHES send me on a quest for a pan I have NO IDEA how I lived without before your posting(s)!!! A POX upon YE!!! CHEERS! Chuckie I think "Evil Chambers Wenches" would be an awesome name for a rock band!!!
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Post by cinnabar on Nov 13, 2016 14:15:01 GMT -5
You can use muffin pans to make them, I am told, but have not tried it. I have a cast iron muffin pan that needs to be used. Gems or popovers should work.
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Post by pooka on Nov 13, 2016 14:32:28 GMT -5
EVIL CHAMBERS WENCHES sounds like a good name for the ladies auxiliary of the Order of the Golden Thistle. The fraternal lodge for us Chambers owners. mach12, I've seen those old pans & just thought they were some kind of variation on a muffin or gem pan. I've heard of popovers, but never thought about what they actually were. I don't think I've ever had one that I know of. Cooking is such a deep subject. There's a never ending list new & interesting thing to discover. Some of them require special pans & tools.
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Post by karitx on Nov 13, 2016 14:53:05 GMT -5
Popovers are one of those things I've been meaning to try, but have never made. Now I am filled with envy (and hunger) and I predict that while I already have a cast iron gem pan that would work, I will probably end up also buying a popover pan. Because that's how my obsessive nature rolls!
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Post by mach12 on Nov 13, 2016 15:34:56 GMT -5
I've always had the best luck doing mine in pyrex custard cups. I've used muffin pans too but they raise uneven so have an odd lean, probably from the uneven heat would be my guess. They're still just fine though.
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Post by nana on Nov 13, 2016 19:10:20 GMT -5
Popovers are like eggy muffins which rise by virtue of the steam produced when you put them in the oven. When done correctly you get a big space inside that I personally like to fill with good jam. I have been toying with the thought of trying them with sausage gravy, though, to make them a little more appealing to my hubby, who finds them neither egg nor muffin and therefore unsatisfying. In fact, popovers figured largely in one of the few big fights we've ever had, in exactly what way I can't (or don't want to) recall, but suffice it to say that popovers are one of the things that we agree to disagree on.
But I like them!
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Post by cinnabar on Nov 13, 2016 19:20:00 GMT -5
My DH says when he is on the road for work, many restaurants give you popovers instead of rolls or bread with meals. I think of popovers as cream puffs, only for dinner,. But hey, who says cream puffs can't be for dinner.
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Post by nana on Nov 14, 2016 18:20:05 GMT -5
Mmmmmmm.....cream puffs!
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Post by vaporvac on Nov 15, 2016 0:04:06 GMT -5
Nana, as you probably know, the English call popovers Yorkshire pudding and its the classic accompaniment for roast and gravy. Perhaps you could tempt your husband with that combo? I bet they'd be scrumptious with turkey gravy for Thanksgiving. Maybe I'll try some with mushroom or red-eye gravy. They also remind me of German pancakes. Uggh. Cream puffs are the best. You guys are so bad.
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Post by nana on Nov 15, 2016 17:41:34 GMT -5
I bet they would be great with turkey gravy too, but I dare not toy with the hallowed traditional dishes of our Thanksgiving dinner. I tried some years ago to have rice pilaf instead of plain mashed potatoes...you would have thought it was the end of the world.
My mom still holds the record for worst Thanksgiving ever, excellent cook though she was. My older brother came home from his first semester of college sick of cafeteria food and pining for turkey, and my mom had prepared a vegetarian meal because my other brother had given up meat. Lentil burgers DO NOT make an adequate substitute, as we all found out.
(PS. He was back to eating meat by Christmas, so we had our turkey then. But still.)
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Post by mach12 on Nov 15, 2016 17:51:55 GMT -5
We have kind of a ritual where we make popovers when we make jam. We always have that little bowl of the stuff you scoop off of the top when the jam is cooking and the popovers are good when you break them open and then spread some in them.
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Post by vaporvac on Nov 15, 2016 18:20:04 GMT -5
Oh yes nana. all changes to sacred meals must be in ADDITION to the classics!My Dad always made some different dressing with oysters or chestnuts, but that was in addition to my Mom's sausage dressing. I've never tried popovers with jam, but it sounds delicious.
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Post by nana on Nov 16, 2016 18:26:38 GMT -5
We have kind of a ritual where we make popovers when we make jam. We always have that little bowl of the stuff you scoop off of the top when the jam is cooking and the popovers are good when you break them open and then spread some in them. That is a great tradition. Much nicer than the one me and my brother had of fighting tooth and nail over that little bowl and who got to lick it clean!
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