Cream Puff Paste(Pata a Choux)
1 cup all-purpose flour 1 cup water 1/2 cup sweet, unsalted butter -- cut up in pieces 1/4 teaspoon salt 4 eggs + 1 egg beaten with a drop or two of water to make an egg wash or gl...
Ingredients
- 1cupall-purpose flour
- 1cupwater
- 1/2cupsweet, unsalted butter -- cut up in pieces
- 1/4teaspoonsalt
- 4eggs + 1 egg beaten with a drop or two of
Directions
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1 cup all-purpose flour 1 cup water 1/2 cup sweet, unsalted butter -- cut up in pieces 1/4 teaspoon salt 4 eggs + 1 egg beaten with a drop o
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Remove from heat (butter should be completely melted) and add the flour all in one fell swoop
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Mix as quickly as possible with a sturdy wooden spoon
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This mixture is known as a "panade"
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Return the saucepan to the stove over the lowest possible heat
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Continue to stir with the wooden spoon while the panade dries out
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This will take about 5 minutes, and a thin crust will form on the bottom of the pan
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This is supposed to happen, so don't worry about it, and don't try to scrape it up and incorporate it into the dough, or you will have plast