French Pastry

Ingredients

• 5 ozs. flour
• 3 eggs
• 2 ozs. butter
• pint cold water
• 3 ozs. castor sugar

Method

1. 1

   Put the butter and water on to boil, when boiling stir in the flour and sugar, and cook over the gas, stirring all the time, until the mixture leaves the sides of the saucepan clearly.

2. 2

   Draw the saucepan off the gas and beat in each egg separately.

3. 3

   Dip a knife and two dessert spoons into hot water, and shape the mixture like eggs, place them upon a greased baking sheet, not too near together, and bake for an hour in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Domestic and economical cookery recipes (1897) by Lillie Richmond, page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FRENCH PASTRY. INGREDIENTS. 5 ozs. flour 3 eggs 2 ozs. butter \ pint cold water 3 ozs. castor sugar

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