The Saturday Sip: March 16, 2024
Your etiquette tip, quote and an Emily Post Cookbook recipe to start your weekend off right!
The Tip
Try not to overload your fork when dining with others. While stacking a few items from your plate is perfectly fine, if you have trouble spearing something, your fork is likely full. Be careful, too, about balancing items atop one another when scooping food up with your fork, or when using your knife to push items onto it. A manageable bite can easily have multiple items on it, but make sure it’s just that a bite, that can easily fit in your mouth.
The Recipe
Who doesn’t love a cream puff?! These delicious desserts won’t last long in any home.
Emily Post’s Cookbook, 1951, pg. 347 *Please note that recipes are copied as exactly as possible, including grammatical errors and inconsistencies.
Cream Puffs
Time: 45 minutes
Serves: 6
Ingredients
1/2 cup water
4 tbs. butter
1/8 tsp. salt
1/2 cup sifted flour
2 eggs
[1-1 1/2 cups heavy/whipping cream,
1 tsp. vanilla
a sprinkle of sugar
powdered/confectioner’s sugar
chocolate syrup - or sirup as Emily spells it]
Directions
Bring water, butter, and salt to a fast boil.
Add flour all at once and stir vigorously and constantly, cooking until the batter leaves the sides of the saucepan and makes a smooth ball. Put batter in mixing bowl, beat in 1 egg until well blended, then beat in the second egg.
Make 6 rounds with the batter on a lightly buttered baking sheet [parchment paper also works well] each round containing 4 to 5 tbs. of batter. Leave 2 inches of space between each round. Or make each round with 1 tbs. of batter, which would make 2 doz. small puff shells. Bake large puffs for 15 minutes in a 450℉. to 475℉. oven, then reduce heat to 350℉. to 357℉. and bake 15 to 20 minutes more. Bake small ones 10 minutes in 450℉. oven and 10 to 12 minutes at 350℉.
When puffs have cooled, cut a slit in the side of each shell and fill with sweetened whipped cream [whip the cream, vanilla, and sugar until thick.]
Serve 1 large puff or 4 small ones per person. Sprinkle tops of large puffs with powdered sugar. The small ones are particularly good covered with chocolate sirup.
The Quote
“Jealously is the suspicion of one’s own inferiority.” - Emily Post
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Lizzie and Dan
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