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pate a choux

Ingredients

  • 75 g water
  • 75 g whole milk
  • 3 g superfine sugar (bakers sugar) (granulated sugar pulsed in the food processor)
  • 3 g salt
  • 65 g butter (a little over 4 tbs)
  • 80 g flour
  • 3 eggs

Instructions

  • pre-heat oven to 400
  • boil water, milk, sugar, salt and butter in sauce pan
  • add flour and stir on heat until it makes a paste that detaches from sides of the pan
  • take off heat, put in new bowl
  • stir in eggs one at a time, rapidly, it will be clumpy, weird and then poof! will become a lovely batter. stir rigoriously until when you pull your spoon up the batter stays stiff and looks like little bird's beaks
  • transfer to a piping bag with large circular tip and pipe onto cookie sheet lined with parchment paper any shape you like
  • put pan in oven-TURN OVEN OFF- what? yep, turn it off for 10 mintues, then set it to 300F and bake for another 25 minutes- they will get golden brown and puffy