Summer Baking

We haven't done much baking this summer, but I did manage to make one old favorite and one new one recently with Jeremy and Madeline's help.

I don't remember why it came up, but when Jeremy said "what's a popover?" I knew I had to do some remedial baking!  Has it really been THAT long since I made popovers?  Tragedy!  My popover pan is one of my favorite I-didn't-know-I-wanted-one-until-I-got-one wedding presents.

"This" I explained to Jeremy, "is why they're called 'popovers'"

and here they are served up all proper-like with whipped butter and strawberry jam:

Mmmmmm....I already want to make them again...SOON!


For a new adventure, the kids and I went to the Farmer's Market and found a whole quart of inspiration:  fresh tart cherries!

We trundled home and I hopped online and found a new recipe and a new blog to follow: Sour Cherry Turnovers at  http://www.flamingobear.com/ [very appropriate considering the race I did the next day].  I used Jenn's recipe almost to the letter (crazy talk! I'm always messing with recipes, even when I first try them).  I did use margerine instead of butter (sadly, I had no stick butter in the house) and we added a sprinkle of cinnamon sugar on top instead of the recommended turbinado sugar (which I assume is like sanding sugar?).  We even used her paper clip trick for pitting the cherries (although the kids got the knack of pulling them out with the stems down pretty well, too). 

The dough is wonderfully soft and pliable--it's not very flaky--and it held up well, particularly considering how wet the filling turned out.

Mmmmmm....fresh from the oven and ready for our road trip to Hancock!