A couple of weekends ago I had the opportunity to rent a Canon macro lens. I needed to try it out on smaller items since after all it is a macro lens. So I made these popovers to go with dinner. Let me tell you I fell in love with this lens. It hurt to have to return it. It is perfect for food photography. Never in a million years did I except to ever care or say the words above but thanks to Tom and his love of photography he has made me into a convert. I can’t wait until I am done with school (one more week!) and working again so I can go out and buy this lens. It may just be a graduation gift to myself.
Enough about my new obsession with this lens and more about the popovers. Popovers are really easy to make and only call for a few ingredients, almost all of which a person will have on hand. It looks much harder than it is because it looks so fancy. It impresses people. You can really add whatever you want to the basic recipe to spruce it up or have a different taste. I had a bunch of rosemary sitting around and was making Italian so I married the two into this recipe. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
Butter for greasing
2 large eggs
3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup water
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon fresh rosemary, chopped
1/4 cup grated cheese
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Butter a six cup muffin tin, set aside. Do this well otherwise the popovers will stick to the tin.
In a large bowl whisk together eggs, milk, and water. Whisk in flour and salt until combined (it is ok if it is a little lumpy).
Whisk in rosemary and grated cheese.
Pour batter into muffin tins about 3/4 the way up (I poured a little too much into mine).
Bake for 45-60 minutes, until the popovers have puffed up and are browned. Turn over tin and pop out popovers (you may need to run a knife around the edges).
Serve warm and enjoy! (Don’t these pictures look great! I love that lens and it helped that it was a beautiful sunny day)
Tags: bake, bread, parmesan, popover, popovers, rosemary, side
Mmm, those look fluffy and delicious. I’ve been wanting to try making some popovers but was waiting to get a fancy popover tin. Looks like I can use my good ol’ regular muffin tin. Thanks!
Never realize until I got into food blogging that photography is such a huge part of it. I can understand your “love” for the lense. These popovers look wonderful!
Simply gorgeous!
The pictures do look great and so do these popovers, YUM! I am wanting to try these out for sure=}
Amazing. Mm. This gives me a bread craving
They do look great!
Gorgeous photos. The lens sounds like an ideal grad gift. I’ll enjoy making these popovers soon.
Wow they look so perfect. And thanks for the picture instructions. You made it so easy to prepare.
Help??? How do I print a recipe in its entirety?
Thanks Everyone! They were truly delicious. I can’t wait until I get the lens. I am so happy all the pictures are so helpful.
@Dana I am working on adding a print button, for now you can click file and print from the top of your web browser. It will print with all the comments though. I will let you know as soon as I have added the button.
Great photograph. Did you know that popovers are really Yorkshire Puddings under an alias? At least that is what those ingredients cooked in that way, would be called in the UK. However, I have not thought of putting things like rosemary & parmesan.
Look how fluffy they are! It makes me hungry as looking. Great recipe and I got you about a macro lens. I want one too!
I made a batch for supper tonight, using shredded mozarella/cheddar mix and dried basil as those were what I had on hand. They were really good, and I’ll definitely be making them again! I discovered that spraying the muffin pan with Pam isn’t a substitute for buttering with butter – my popovers were somewhat stuck, LOL – next time I’ll butter
Hi, Pete. Congrats on FoodBuzz #1!
I like the savoury aspect of these popovers – I now have an excuse to hall out my cast iron popover pan and make them. Great pix and post.
Thanks,
Dan
those look so good I can almost smell them…..hot from the oven , the rosemary permeating the room….sigh….life is good…..thanks for sharing such a wonderful recipe..and your pics are gorgeous!
@Dana the print button has added. Let me know if you have any problems.
@Chef Dennis the house smelt wonderful when I made them!
@Sandra thank you so much for letting me know you made these. Im so happy that someone is making my recipes
Everyone thanks for the all the fabulous comments and feedback. Thank you so much!
@Janice I had no idea! You learn something new everyday. Thanks for sharing.
I’m getting my new flash today, so I understand your obsession with the lens. Beautiful shot!
I bought a popover pan years ago and have never used it. I think I found the perfect recipe to break it in! They look delicious!
I have so much fresh rosemary so I can’t wait to make these. I couldn’t help but retweet!
Those look great. I like that you added parmesan cheese to the recipe.
These look amazing! Thanks so much for sharing…and yeah, GORGEOUS photo =)
The Popovers look so tempting! I think, I am going to bake them.
I want to eat these right off my screen! I will definitely use my muffin pan to make these. And I let you know by linking to your site
@Janice, #11: I think they’re only called Yorkshire Pudding if you coat the pan with beef drippings instead of butter. I love Yorkie though, Christmas wouldn’t be the same in my house without it!
Actually i have never tasted something like that…
Must be delicious… With some butter insibe… mmmmmm
I tried the popovers a few nights ago, my husband loved them, I think he ate about 6 of them. I did have a problem with mine, they fell when I took them out of the oven. Did I do something wrong? I think I followed the recipe.
You might just have to bake them a little bit longer. The first time I made them they fell also, so I adjusted the bake time on my oven. Each oven unfortunately cooks differently so you may just need to bake them longer next time. It happens to my cupcakes all the time too.
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I have a recipe that’s similar to this except you sprinkle the herbs on the top of the batter. It’s just delicious. So as I see it, mixing the herbs into the batter would be even better!! Am going to try this recipe this week. Thanks!
These are really great. They look wonderful and I can imagine the aroma. Truly great stuff. I will be making this as soon as I complete my fast. Thanks for the inspiration.
These are in the oven as I type. Thanks for the recipe. I’ll let you know how they turn out.
on the menu for dinner 2nite! thanks!
WOW it looks so yummy can’t wait to try it, I just have one question, how did it rise become fluffy without yeast or baking powder in ingredients? is it enough to beat the ingredients well without adding yeast?
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Pictures look great! And I definitely will be trying these out real soon. They look absoverylutely scrumlicious! Thanks for sharing!
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I saw the recipe yesterday and tried them out this morning & they turned out amazing. However I did omit the eggs.
Lovely photographs. This weekend our chef’s supper club is meeting and I think I’ll make these. It appears that the recipe yields 6 popovers, right? I’ll need to extend the recipe because these will go quickly.
Thanks,
Sherry
I am so excited that I have all these ingredients in my kitchen already! I can’t wait to make these.