Cream Puffs No. 1

Ingredients

• One-half cup butter melted
• one cup of hot water
• one cup of flour
• three eggs
• One cup milk
• one half cup sugar
• thicken with cornstarch
• flavor with vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter in hot water, stir in flour, let cool, then add eggs one at a time.

2. 2

   Drop on buttered tins and bake in a hot oven for twenty minutes.

3. 3

   For filling, boil milk, sugar, and egg thickened with cornstarch, then fill puffs.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pennsylvania German cook book (1902) by Keller, J. A. Mrs, page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CREAM PUFFS NO. 1. One-half cup butter melted in one cup of iiot water, put in a tin pan and set on the stove, while hoiling stir in one cup of flour, take off and let cool, when cold, stir in three eggs, one after the other without beating. Drop on buttered tins and bake in a hot oven twenty minutes. (Filling:) One cup milk, one half cup sugar, one egg thicken with ciunstarch, flavor with vanilla

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