American Southern

Cream Puff

Name: Cream Puff
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 2 cups flour; one do. butter; 0.5 cups water; 5 each eggs; 0.25 tsp soda

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 33. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.

15 minPrep Time

30 minCook Time

8Servings

mediumDifficulty

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Instructions

1
Boil the butter and water together; stir in the flour by degrees while boiling; cool it, then add five eggs and one-fourth of a teaspoon of soda.
2
Drop on buttered tins, and bake in a quick oven.
3
Dressing—One pint milk, one cup sugar, two , half cup ; beat the , sugar, and together; stir them in the milk while boiling; flavor with vanilla.

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