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Cream Puffs Recipe

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Category:
Category:
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1/2 cup milk
1/4 c butter
1/2 c sifted flour
1/8 tsp salt
2 eggs

Pastry Custard
1-3 cup sugar
4 T flour
2 cups milk, scalded
3 eggs
1 tsp flour
Directions:
Directions:
Heat milk and butter together to boiling. Add flour and salt. Stir and cook until the batter pulls away from the sides and forms a ball. Remove from heat.
Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each additions.
Combine sugar, flour, eggs and add hot milk gradually. Cook in double boiler stirring when the custard thickens. Remove from heat and add vanilla. Cool.
Place tsp of batter on greased baking pan, heaping each well in the center. Place them 2 inches apart. Bake in 375º oven for 20 minutes. Reduce heat to 275º and bake 5 minutes longer.
Cool puffs. Cut half-way open. Fill with pastry custard.
Serve cream puffs.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
25
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
You can make the pastry cream as sweet as you like. 2 cups seemed to be a good compromise.

 

 

 

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