Every time I manage to get myself upright and out of that MRI room, however, I feel like I do when I finish a half marathon or execute a perfect pan of popovers – like a winner.
Will she weave cardboard strips into placemats, or whip up a batch of popovers?
And just as these delicacies were cleared, a plate of popovers arrived.
Add a generous serving of fudge sauce.
Think, rather, of sausages, blistered brown, embedded in the batter for Yorkshire pudding (a kind of popover) and baked till billowing and golden in the oven.
The British never stopped eating what they call savory puddings, including Yorkshire pudding, that indispensable companion of roast beef (memorably defined by Ogden Nash as "a sort of popover that's tripped and popped under").
It does make a big deal of serving pumped-up popovers with sweet strawberry butter.
The writer, an Englishman, now living in America, objects to some of the British Travel Association advertisements In one it was stated that the roast beef in England usually comes with Yorkshire Pudding - a Patrician sort of popover.
The Popover Cafe, 551 Amsterdam Avenue (87th Street), has overnight delivery of its boxes of popovers, but for Mother's Day, the cafe will bake and deliver them the same day, either Saturday or Sunday.
Which brings us to the subject of popovers, which begin with essentially the same batter as Yorkshire pudding.
This is the golden rule of popovers!
