King's Holiday Fun Recipes --- stressing
fun
Homemade Gigantic Popover
The King's BIG Biscuit
What you need:
Two eggs
One cup Flour
One cup whole milk
1 tsp. salt, to taste
1/2 tsp. FRESH baking powder
(Clabber Girl Baking Powder
is preferred)
1 tbs. melted butter
What to do:
Assemble ingredients and equipment
first. Preheat oven to 475 degrees F. Grease a large iron frying pan with
lard (I prefer 12 inches, but you make in work in larger or smaller iron
pans). Instead of lard you can use Crisco, coconut, or peanut oil (you
can use butter, never margarine, only as a last choice, it tends to burn).
Put greased pan in oven (or on
stovetop burner) to get it sizzling hot and be careful to use mitts when
handling it.
Work fast to blend ingredients
until you get a smooth, creamy pancake like batter (use an eggbeater or
do it a blender; if mixing in a blender, you will need to scrape the sides
of the blender a couple of times).
Quickly pour all of the batter
into the hot pan and immediately put the pan in a 475 degree oven (don't
forget to use a mitt, the pan is HOT), then
turn the temperature down, from 475 to 375 degrees.
This popover biscuit will be
done in about 35 minutes, depending on the peculiarities of your oven and
the quality of your pan --- old iron pans made in America are the best.
Modern iron pan imports have
irregular hot sports and are good for paint pots, growing flowers, attitude
adjustments, and doorstops, but not for cooking.
The batter will rise about two
inches above the poured level in the pan and begin to turn a golden biscuit
brown. Only experience will tell you exactly when it "done." The finished
biscuit can range from very moist, which the King prefers, to very crisp
--- it is great either way and looks very impressive.
Great with Royal Honey, Agave,
butter, jam, jelly, thinly sliced ham, scrambled eggs or anything that
would taste good with bread. The finished biscuit sometimes has
a natural pocket opening and can be stuffed with cheeses, berries, sauces,
and anything that would make a tart or a sandwich. It is good for example
with a blended mixture of chopped ham, creme cheese, fresh black pepper,
and a smidgen of applesauce. It goes equally well with coffee, tea, or
dark hot chocolate.
And, if in advance, you prepare
some veggies and bits of meat swimming in a warm cheese sauce, you can
serve a fair pizza --- you will need to experiment to get it "your
way."
Serve hot immediately. The black
pan presented on white or red tablecloth looks really appetizing.
This dish is great for guys to
prepare (you won't feel like a wimp while you are waving around your black
frying pan).
Young ladies who have several
small iron pans would find that this makes a great luncheon or breakfast
foundation piece around which many ideas can be developed.
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