Chocolate Cream Puffs

Ingredients

• one cup of boiling water
• one-half cup butter
• one cup of flour
• one-half teaspoonful soda
• three unbeaten eggs
• a cupful of sweet cream
• a tablespoonful of chocolate
• a teaspoonful of vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter in boiling water, then stir in flour mixed with soda.

2. 2

   Add eggs one at a time, stirring until smooth.

3. 3

   Drop onto greased tins and bake for about 25 minutes.

4. 4

   Fill with whipped cream mixed with chocolate and vanilla.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 120. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Cream Puffs. — Put one cup of boiling water in basin on stove and add one-half cup butter. When thoroughly melted, take from stove and stir in one cup of flour, a little at a time, in which is blended one-half teaspoonful soda. After these are thoroughly mixed, add three unbeaten eggs, one at a time, and stir until the mixture is free from lumps, then drop a tablespoonful at a time on well greased tins and bake in a quick oven about twenty-five minutes. When ready to serve cut a hole in the si'des of each puff with the scissors and pour in the following filling: Beat a cupful of sweet cream very stiff, add a tablespoonful of chocolate, a very little sugar and a teaspoonful of vanilla

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