Cream Puffs

Ingredients

• 4 cup butter
• 4 cup boiling water
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 14 teaspoon sugar
• 1% cup all purpose flour
• 2 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Put butter in pan, pour boiling water over it.

2. 2

   Add salt and sugar then put pan over burner and bring to a rapid boil.

3. 3

   Dump flour all at once.

4. 4

   Lower heat immediately; stir vigorously until the mixture comes completely away from the pan and forms a ball in the center.

5. 5

   Take pan from stove, add eggs one at a time.

6. 6

   Beat hard until batter is glossy.

7. 7

   Drop half teaspoon on greased cooky sheet.

8. 8

   Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes, reduce heat to 350 degrees, bake for 10 minutes.

9. 9

   Test by taking one from oven, If it doesn’t collapse, the puffs are done.

10. 10

    When cool slice off top, remove any moist dough left in shell and fill with custard, ice cream, whipped cream, the lemon fluff filling below or any dessert filling.

11. 11

    Makes 12 puffs.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Waldensian cookery (1957), page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CREAM PUFFS 4 cup butter 4 cup boiling water 1/8 teaspoon salt 14 teaspoon sugar 1% cup all purpose flour 2 eggs

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