Cream Puffs

Ingredients

• one cupful of butter
• two of flour
• half a pint of boiling water
• five eggs

Method

1. 1

   Stir together the butter and flour in a saucepan.

2. 2

   When well mixed, add boiling water, stir smooth, and let cool.

3. 3

   When cool, add eggs and beat for two or three minutes.

4. 4

   Drop the mixture on buttered paper in small spoonfuls or in muffin rings.

5. 5

   Bake for twenty-five or thirty minutes in a brisk oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The century cook book (1894) by Jennie A. Hansey, page 80. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cream Puffs. Stir together in a saucepan one cupful of butter with two of flour; when well mixed add half a pint of boiling water, stir smooth, and when it boils set aside to cool, when cool, add five eggs

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