today I am going to show you how to make
classic popovers they only have five
ingredients now popovers are light and
fluffy on the inside they're golden
brown on the outside nice and crispy
with a buttery flavor popovers do very
well when there's no humidity or very
low humidity so when it's nice and cool
outside or cold it's the perfect time to
make these you can use a popover pan it
comes in a rack with six of them in
there if you don't have one of these you
can use a muffin tin use the standard
size these are deeper so our popovers
will be taller than if you use the
muffin tin right here so but either way
is
fine you're going to need allpurpose
flour little bit of
salt but butter milk and eggs now we're
bringing our eggs and milk to room
temperature taking the chill off of them
the eggs take about 1 hour just sitting
on your countertop the milk you can just
put it into your measuring container for
about 5 or 10 minutes just to take the
chill off all right we're going to melt
butter you need three
tablespoons I'm just going to place it
into a microwave safe Bowl we want to
have that done first that way you can
cool down because you don't want to add
your melted hot butter to eggs or you'll
have scrambled eggs and you don't want
that my Butter's a little soft there we
go about 30 seconds in the microwave if
it's soft if it's not I would go 45
seconds just keep an eye on it all right
the butter is melted we're going to set
it off to the side and allow it to cool
and let's get our flour ready that's the
only dry ingredient besides the salt
that we're going to be working with now
what you want to do
is we're going to put some flour in a
bowl here woo not that
much we're not using that much and what
we're going to do you're going to take a
large measuring spoon and then a large
spoon place it in we're going to measure
this usually you see me put my measuring
spoon into the flour bring it up and
then scrape it off well we're going to
lightly do this we're going to put the
flour into the measuring spoon like
that and then we're going to take the
back edge of a
knife scrape it off and we're going to
just place it in a bowl and have it
ready this is a/4
cup so I'm going to go in twice so we
need 1 and 1/2
cups of allpurpose flour and then I'll
just put the rest of this flour back
into my flour container
here all right we're going to to start
with a blender and we're going to blend
all five ingredients and I'm going to
show you in what order and how long you
should do each ingredient as it goes in
it'll give it the perfect batter if you
do not have a blender you can certainly
use a food processor or you can use your
electric hand mixer and do this in a
large mixing bowl now if you do that you
do need to kind of strain your batter
into a bowl and get out any little
pieces that may not have got Blended
very well with your electric hand mixer
okay but with the
blender it's going to get it all and
have it nice and smooth for us we're
going to take four eggs these are large
eggs we're going to crack them in one at
a time into our
blender I just want to make sure that
there's no shells going in
two
three and
four we're going to add in our
milk one and 1/2 cups you want to make
sure that it's lukewarm
milk we're going to add in salt if
you're using salted
butter you're going to use a/4 T
teaspoon of salt if you're using no salt
butter then you're going to add 3/4 of a
teaspoon of
salt I'm using regular butter which has
salt in it so I'm going to go in with
a/4 teaspoon of
salt we're going to place the lid
on we're going to blend this for 1
minute
we're going to add our flour and the
melted
butter here we
go we're going to place our lid back on
we're going to combine that for 2
minutes okay I took it off the base
we're going to allow this to rest for
about 5 minutes we're going to preheat
our oven to
450° before you do that lower your rack
down to about one before the lowest
level there cuz these are going to rise
and you want to give them plenty of
space to do that so they don't burn on
the top or hit the top of your oven now
while that's preheating we're going to
go ahead and prepare our pans whatever
you're using if you're using the popover
pans or your muffin tins I melted a
little extra butter here I'm going to
get my pastry
brush now I'm using melted butter to
coat mine give it a nice buttery flavor
you can use non stick cooking spray and
spray all inside of there you want to
get all the way into the ridges down
there below you want these things to pop
out now I've got mine sitting on a
baking tray
here that way the grease from the pans
don't go into your
oven make sure you get the ridges right
here the
edge and coat all the way down to the
the bottom we're almost preheated what
I'm going to do is place this in the
oven for 2 minutes and then as it gets
up to temperature then these will be
ready to go just 2 minutes while it's
preheating if it's already preheated 2
minutes we just want to get these nice
and
hot all right we can see that they're
sizzling which is what we
want leave your oven on to the 450
we're going to take our mixture here
which rested for about five
minutes take a
scoop just going to mix it up a little
bit now we're going to fill each
one you want to come up very close to
the edge
there all right I'm going to take it
fill the rest of them up we
go come over
here not quite to the top place them
back in the oven for 18
minutes now when you do that do not open
the door anymore until the 18 minutes
are over if you open up the door they
could deflate on you once the timer goes
off we're going to lower the temperature
of the oven down to 350°
continue baking them for 10 minutes keep
an eye on them if they're getting too
dark you can put some foil over the top
all right make sure you have not opened
your oven yet okay my oven light went
out I had a flashlight and I'm looking
at them through the flashlight all right
I'll be
back look at
these 28 minutes and I did not open the
oven door
take a pairing knife and you're just
going to stab right in the center and
that'll deplete the air from inside of
it I'm going to pop these out grab a
spoon go up underneath of it pull them
out look at that look at the size of
that look at the tops of
them they smell so delicious was driving
my husband crazy
let's cut into it I got a serrated bread
knife oh look at that yes it's steaming
hot right now we're going to let this
cool down a little bit I'm going to put
some butter and jam on it give it a try
for
you nice and crispy on the
outside buttery
that's the flavor you get from it nice
and oh that texture on the inside is
nice and
fluffy
mhm it's got an eggy consistency to it
it's very delicious make sure you give
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the next
episode bye