Hors d’oeuvres Puffs Recipe by Ruth Paget
Makes 30 Puffs
Ingredients:
-1/4 pound butter
-1 cup boiling water
-1 cup sifted flour
-1 teaspoon salt
-4 eggs with yolks and whites separated, beaten, and placed in separate cups
Steps:
1-Preheat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
2-Melt butter in boiling water. Add flour and salt.
3-Stir mixture until a ball forms that does not separate.
4-Add egg yolks, beating to full incorporate the eggs in the dough. Then, add egg whites, beating to fully incorporate the egg whites into the dough.
5-Bake for 15 minutes at 450 degrees Fahrenheit and then at for 25 minutes at 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
6-Cool on a rack before cutting open to stuff.
Source: Rose Pennington – circa 1950s
By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
