Cream Puffs (Good)

Ingredients

• One cupful of boiling water
• one cupful of flour
• one-half cupful of butter
• One cupful of sweet milk
• one-half cupful of sugar
• one egg
• one tablespoonful of corn-starch

Method

1. 1

   Mix boiling water and butter, then stir in flour and baking powder.

2. 2

   Let cool, stir in eggs, drop into buttered pans, and bake for 30 minutes.

3. 3

   For filling, cook milk, sugar, egg, and corn-starch until thick, fill puffs, and dust with sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 225. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CREAM PUFFS (GOOD). One cupful of boiling water, one cupful of flour and one-half cupful of butter. Mix together, first putting the butter in the water, then stirring in the flour and baking-powder. Let cool, stir in three eggs, drop into buttered pans and bake in a moderate oven thirty minutes. Filling. — One cupful of sweet milk, one-half cupful of sugar, one egg and one tablespoonful of corn-starch

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