Mary - bread flower makes the inside more dense just like a loaf of bread.

Karen - grated to me is using the stuff you buy in the store. We get ours at Sams Club in large bags and I think it is of better quality than what can be found in the supermarket.

My experiment is finished. I will be posting pictures and my observations latter. I'm wasting one right now.

Frank ...

I love your egg foo young recipe, but I have a question about using 4 cups of oil to fry them. It sounds like you are almost deep frying them. To me, that is a lot of oil. Does the egg mixture soak up a lot of the oil ?

Smiles,
Lyn

I also use both types of parmesean. If in cannelloni, I use fresh grated, if in bread I usually use the canned Kraft stuff. If I grate my own, I use a large knife and sort of mince it into smaller sized. I am making a Parmesean, potato, onion , basil, etc bread right now and am using Kraft cheese. I wonder what parmesean would taste like in corn bread. Nah. Cheddar would be better. I fine chop bell pepper and green onion into it. Bake in an iron skillet. Tomorrow I will do another batch of dill onion bread which I love toasted.

I will await the grand experiment results to see how to adjust what I did to Frank's recipe.

Also have a pot of Hoppin' John cooking. That is what the corn bread is for.

Mary, do you have a large group that eats all that wonderful sounding bread you make?? I make one loaf of something and we eat on it all week. I could eat it all while warm slathered with butter, but I wouldn't be able to get off the couch in a weeks time. I hope you share some of those recipes.

Frank, I am holding off on supper because I assume you will be passing those popovers out to your friends. I am practicing my catching!!

Lyn - that's exactly what you do. Before I found this recipe I used to put maybe a cup of oil into the wok and add just the eggs. When they began to set I then added the other ingredients but I found that the end results did not look like the stuff I got in the restaurants.

With this recipe the oil is deep enough to reach the 400 degree mark without smoking. When you drop the mixture into the oil at that temperature it actually seals the oil from penetrating deep into the mixture. Since everything is pre-cooked it browns fast and it gets that kind of wrinkled look like at the restaurant.

Mary - your bread making makes me jealous. I'm breaking out the bread machine tomorrow.

All this talk of fresh bread made me hungry for it, so I made two loaves of potato bread. Now I remember why I don't make it often, one loaf is already gone! yikes!

That's why I refrain also, lol.

Frank, how is little Ava doing?

herbie43 said:With this recipe the oil is deep enough to reach the 400 degree mark without smoking. When you drop the mixture into the oil at that temperature it actually seals the oil from penetrating deep into the mixture. Since everything is pre-cooked it browns fast and it gets that kind of wrinkled look like at the restaurant.

Ah HA ! Thanks, Frank.

Smiles,
Lyn

The potato onion bread recipe is supposed to be made into a braided loaf but I was feeling lazy so I just divided it into thirds and put it in loaf pans. Makes fairly small loaves but they are just the right size for the toaster. And I took one to a neighbor. They also got some cornbread. I am exhausted so may not make the dill onion bread until Friday. Tomorrow is laundry day, then a PET scan on Friday morning. Busy, busy, busy....I can scan in the dill onion recipe as I usually put my favorites in Word so I can make changes or hilite notes that I need to remember like after brushing with egg sprinkle more parmesean on top of the bread (which I forgot to do).

The great Popover experiment

to refresh your memory here is a picture I took of the ones I made in an ordinary muffin tin




today I used this




I filled it like this




after 30 minutes, they looked like this




next I used the same procedure BUT I cooked them for 40 minutes. as you can see from this photo how bigger they are than the first batch





this is the inside of the smaller ones




you can see how much denser they look compared to the inside of the larger ones






finally, even though the second batch were bigger in size they weighed less

the smaller ones weighed in at around 3 and a half to 3 and 7 eights ounces while the larger ones came in at 3 ounces.

I guess you can say I have too much time on my hands and my wife said that if I make one more popover she is going to pop me over the head because she can't stop eating them.

Great job and they look delicious! Yumm, yumm.

Thanks for going to all that trouble, Frank. They look great!!! Are you greasing the pan that I just gave away to charity?

I love that little red and blue plate that those first popovers are on. I know I am suppose to be looking at the popovers, but the plate is too cute. I love having different pieces for serving.

Today I hope to make several kinds of jam and jelly if I can get myself going after this bout with the crud. Once I am down, I really find it difficult to get going again, but I just have to. I need the freezer space for baking!!!
Thanks again, Frank!! I might have to go to the Salvation Army to get my pan back, lol.

Off the subject, did all of you know that Goodwill is not a charity that does for others. It is strictly for the benefit of the guy that owns it. All of my things will now go to the Salvation Army instead. I am so disgusted to think of all that I donated to the wrong place.

Karen - those plates in the photo are our regular dinner plates

Thanks for the tip in Goodwill

I am drooling looking at those popovers. Guess I have to try a batch, but not for a couple of days. I need to work off the bread I've been eating!

Good morning everyone I am speaking to my laptop and it is making it into a text message thank you

GM, Frank. That sounds like what I need. Tell us a little about this.

Karen, I was disgusted when I found out about Goodwill, the name makes it sound like it is to help the poor. Now everything that I have to give away goes to the Salvation Army.

I didn't know that either. I donate to Value Village up here. I should donate to Arc of Anchorage. It is a true non-profit for the benefit of many in need. But it is so convenient to just drop things off at VV. And I also buy my clothes, books, and the occasional cute kitchen item. lol

I keep forgetting to pass on this great tip for sour smelling dishrags. I could take a freshly laundered rag out to use, and after wetting it, I had the same smelly problem I had before washing it. I tried all kinds of remedies but nothing worked to make my dishrags sweet!!

This was passed on to all of us at a girlfriends luncheon. Take your wet, smelly rag and put it in the microwave at high power for one minute. I usually fluff it up at about 30 seconds. When the time is up, remove and use as you normally would. I have had to repeat it only once with one stubborn rag, but I now have sweet smelling dishrags and washcloths.

Karen - whenever I begin to type on my iPad the keyboard appears and at the bottom of the board is a microphone symbol. When I click on it it allows me to speak and the words appear on the screen.

Thanks for that tip in the dish towel.