Cream Puffs

Ingredients

For Pastry:

• One cup boiling water
• Half cup butter
• One cup flour
• Five eggs
• Baking soda

For Filling

• One pint milk
• One cup sugar
• Half cup flour
• Dixie vanilla extract

Directions

1. One cup boiling water, 1⁄2 cup butter, put these on the stove, when boiling add one cup of flour, stir five minutes
2. put this off until nearly cold, then stir in one egg at a time until you get in five eggs
3. Soda size of a pea dissolved in teaspoonful cold water and put into the mixture.
4. Have your tins hot. Bake twenty-five minutes and do not remove from tins until cold. Have oven very hot.
• Filling
1. Beat yolks and flour together
2. Boil the milk and stir in mixture slowly
3. when it thickens take it off and let cool before putting in cakes. Flavor with Dixie vanilla extract.
Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Miss Clara Billington
Louisiana Anthology
March 26, 2022