Cream Puffs
Small-batch numbered recipe
Green Recipe Box handwritten two-card set
Ingredients
- ¼ C butter
- ½ C water
- ½ C flour
- ¼ t salt
- 2 eggs unbeaten-room temp.
Directions
- 1) sift flour on wax paper. measure and sift again.
- 2) combine fat & water in saucepan. bring to vigorous boil, turn heat low add flour all at once.
- 3) beat fast & hard then stir till mixture leaves sides of pan & forms stiff ball.
- 4) take from heat - drop in one egg - beat hard & stir till batter is shiny. add 2nd egg. beat well.
- 5) batter should be stiff. drop on greased baking sheet by teaspoonfulls 2" apart.
- 6) bake in hot oven 425°. 30 min.
Timing: vigorous boil; until mixture leaves sides and forms stiff ball; until batter is shiny; batter should be stiff; 30 min.
Temperature: eggs unbeaten-room temp.; vigorous boil; turn heat low; take from heat; hot oven 425°
Equipment: sifter, wax paper, measuring tools, saucepan, wire utensil or whisk, lid, mixing utensil, teaspoon, greased baking sheet, oven
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use wire in saucepan*
Place a lid next time
Cream Puffs ¼ C butter ½ C water ½ C flour ¼ t salt 2 eggs unbeaten-room temp. 1) sift flour on wax paper. measure and sift again. 2) combine fat & water in saucepan. bring to vigorous boil, turn heat low add flour all at once. 3) beat fast & hard then stir till mixture leaves sides of pan & forms stiff ball. 4) take from heat - drop in one egg - beat hard & stir till batter is shiny. add 2nd egg. beat well. 5) batter should be stiff. drop on greased baking sheet by teaspoonfulls 2" apart. 6) bake in hot oven 425°. 30 min. vigorous boil; until mixture leaves sides and forms stiff ball; until batter is shiny; batter should be stiff; 30 min. eggs unbeaten-room temp.; vigorous boil; turn heat low; take from heat; hot oven 425° sifter, wax paper, measuring tools, saucepan, wire utensil or whisk, lid, mixing utensil, teaspoon, greased baking sheet, oven
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Clear Tote handwritten Favorite Recipe card
Ingredients
- 2 cups water
- 1 cup Oleo
- 2 cups flour
- of pan.
- 8 eggs.
Directions
- Heat to boiling stage
- stir in 2 cups flour & cook until mix leaves sides of pan.
- Add eggs one at a time.
- Drop by teaspoon on greased cookie sheet.
- Bake until dry
- remove and cool.
Temperature: 350 degree; boiling stage; cool
Equipment: pan; teaspoon; greased cookie sheet; 350-degree baking oven
Notes
- If use can apples add 1 lemon juice + 5 water; example: 1/4 cup lemon juice to 1 1/4 cup water
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Water, fat, flour, and eggs
- Green Recipe Box handwritten two-card set
- 1/2 C water, 1/4 C butter, 1/2 C flour, 2 eggs
- Clear Tote handwritten Favorite Recipe card
- 2 cups water, 1 cup Oleo, 2 cups flour, 8 eggs
Fat and salt
- Green Recipe Box handwritten two-card set
- 1/4 C butter and 1/4 t salt
- Clear Tote handwritten Favorite Recipe card
- 1 cup Oleo; no salt stated
Baking setting
- Green Recipe Box handwritten two-card set
- hot oven 425° for 30 min.
- Clear Tote handwritten Favorite Recipe card
- 350 degree; bake until dry
Method detail and shaping
- Green Recipe Box handwritten two-card set
- Six numbered steps including double sifting, heat reduction, beating to a stiff shiny batter, and dropping teaspoonfulls 2 inches apart
- Clear Tote handwritten Favorite Recipe card
- Short boil, flour, egg, teaspoon-drop, bake-until-dry, and cool method with one unreadable deleted line
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