Cheese Puffs

Ingredients

• two tablespoonfuls of butter
• four of flour
• four of grated cheese
• one cupful of water
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• one-fifth of a teaspoonful of cayenne
• two eggs

Method

1. 1

   Put the butter and water in a saucepan.

2. 2

   Mix the flour, cheese, salt, and pepper, and stir into the boiling liquid.

3. 3

   Cook for three minutes while beating.

4. 4

   Remove from fire and cool.

5. 5

   Add the eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly.

6. 6

   Drop the mixture into a buttered baking pan using a heaping teaspoonful for each puff.

7. 7

   Bake in a moderate oven for about twenty minutes.

8. 8

   Serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 210. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one-fifth of a teaspoonful of cayenne, and half a teaspoonful of salt. Break the cheese into bits. Put it into a niortar with the other ingredients (except the bread), and pound all to a smooth paste. Toast the bread, and after spreading it with this mixture, lay it in a pan and put into a hot oven for four minutes. Serve at once. Cheese Puffs. These are made of two table-spoonfuls of butter, four of flour, four of grated cheese, one cupful of water, half a teaspoonful of salt, one-fifth of a teaspoonful of cay- enne, and two eggs

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