After coming up with this on my own, I found several recipes online. So if you should choose to delete it, that's okay. I do like the apple-gruyere version, so it could be published as that.
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<br />It is a tradition to serve appetizers when defending one's dissertation. I gave my dissertation defense at 9:00 in the morning and wanted something tasty that was reminiscent of breakfast (I also didn't want to cause food poisoning -- did I mention that my PhD is in Microbiology?). So I wondered if mini-popovers were possible (having not ever heard of them before). The basic popover recipe is adapted from Joy of Cooking, but I use 2X salted butter and lose the salt.

Read the recipe at Food52.com