Popovers for Piglet on Winnie the Pooh Day

Today is Winnie the Pooh Day the day to celebrate every one's favorite bear on the birthday of his creator A.A. Milne.

 Of course Winnie is actually a real bear who belonged to Milne's son Christopher Robin and inspired his fathers stories.  However, what lots of people do not know is that the real Winnie the pooh along with Eeyore, Piglet, and Tiger are in the custody of the New York Public Library and reside in a glass case at Stephen A. Schwarzman building   on 5th Ave and 42nd St.  This is a bit of a shock to those of us who have read the classic Pooh stories and know how resoundly  British Pooh is, and to make matters worse the library claims Pooh and his friends are as happy now as they were in the 100 acre wood, as if!   Thankfully there is a petition you can sign to return Pooh and his friends to their homeland.  

 In honor of Winnie the Pooh Day we decided to make Popovers for Piglet a recipe from the classic Pooh cookbook which was published in 1969.   It was a big hit with the hippies who must have appreciated Poohs laid back philosophy of "doing nothing."

Popovers for Piglet

• 1 cup unbleached flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup milk or 3/4 cup cream
• 1 tablespoon butter , melted
• 2 tablespoons honey , softened
• 2 eggs

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2. Grease 2 muffins or popover tins generously with butter.
3. Sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl.
4. Combine milk, butter and honey and add to the flour.
5. Stir to combine.
6. Add the eggs and beat until smooth in an electrix mixer
7. Fill the muffin tins half full.
8. Bake approximately 25 minutes* but **DO NOT** open the oven door or the popovers will collapse (you want to save the collapsing for later!).
9. Remove from oven. The popovers will collapse in the center in about 1 minute, usually less time (which is what happened to mine before I could photograph them).
10. Remove from the muffin pans.
11. Serve drizzle with honey or with honey butter (made by beating butter and honey together)