OK, so I halved the recipe, used a popover pan and cooked them in a convection oven - and all but one of them popped. When you make that many changes and it still works, you know you've got a good recipe. I'm guessing that popover pans hold more than muffin pans do, as I didn't have quite as much batter as I'd have liked. The one popover that didn't pop was the one where I'd scraped every last bit out of the bowl into it. It had the same amount of batter as the others, but the stuff at the bottom of the bowl was a bit more sludgy than the rest of it. That could certainly be the reason, it didn't get beaten quite as much as the rest of the batter. Mary @ King Arthur

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