Directions: Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Beat the eggs at high speed with an electric mixer for 3 minutes, or until the mixture turns lemon yellow. Slow the mixer to a crawl and dribble in about 1/2 cup of milk, taking about 20 seconds to pour it in.
Into another bowl, sift the flour and measure 1 cup as exactly as you can, sift some of the flour then add salt and baking soda and sift again.
With the mixer still running on its slowest speed, add the dry ingredients to the eggs and milk. Turn the mixer off and use a rubber spatula to make sure that all of the flour has blended in with the liquid.
Set the mixer to medium speed and dribble in the remaining milk. Blend for 1 minute. Turn the mixer to its highest speed and beat for 10 minutes (or 5 minutes if you have a Kitchen-aid style mixer that uses a wire whip for beating). Extra beating can't hurt.
Filter the batter through a fine-mesh screen strainer to remove any lumps, then pour into well-buttered popover cups or custard cups. (If you must use a muffin tin, fill only the 4 corners.)
Bake at 425 degrees F. for 15 minutes. Without opening the oven, turn heat to 350 degrees F. and bake for 15 more minutes (20 minutes if your oven door has a window). Serve immediately, with fresh jam and room-temperature butter.
October 16th - Day 30
Foliage has hardly even begun to turn in Arkansas along I-40 and I-30. The sides of the road are all brown and dried up grasses (like we'd see in Texas in the heat of the summer).
and Texas is actually more green than the part of Arkansas we saw. For October, that's pretty amazing. We're glad to be back in the land of the flat lands where the eye can see for miles.
Here's our camping rig we've used on this trip: Bigfoot Truck Camper mounted on DH's F350 truck. Cozy yet easier to get around the old narrow New England roads.
Soybeans not-yet-harvested near Northeast Tennessee.
The trees were much greener as we neared Memphis, Tennessee.
The bridge across the Mississippi River connecting TN to AR was closed down to one land wach way causing stop-and-go traffic toward the end of our drive day. Pretty sunset. 
October 14th - Day 28
