FOR AFTERNOON TEA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19719, 19 August 1927, Page 7

FOR AFTERNOON TEA.

Eclairs.— Required : Flour, 4ozl; butter, v 20z.; eggs, two whole, and one extra yolk; water (boiling), half a pint;, salt, small salt spoonful; sugar and flavouring to taste. The flour is best first dried in the oven on a baking sheet, and then sieved to remove lumps. Boil the water and butter .in a saucepan. When boiling add all the flour at once, and stir and beat it off the fire till free from lumps- that form at first. Then cook and stir it over a gentle heat till the paste can be rolled about in the pan without sticking to it. Take the pan off the fire, cool it down a little, and beat in the eggs one by one, each one thoroughly, before adding the next. Add any sugar and flavouring, desired, and turn on to a plate to cool and stiffen. When the choux pastry is cold, dust hands and board well with flour. Shape small pieces of the pastry into little finger-shaped rolls any size you wish. A very light touch is needed, or they will stick to the fingers and board. Lift them 011 to a greased baking tin placing at least an inch apart. Bake very slowly for about thiee-quarters of an hour. When cooked they should feel vei;»* light, be quite or nearly, hollow, and ot a delicate straw tint. Leave till cold, ; then open carefully down one side on y • and through this opening fill each with cream or custard. Any soft paste inside, if anv, must be scooped out beiore filling. Cream buns are made in the same *ay, .'out a different shape. A forcing bag shapes and fills them very ueatlv. After filling, pour over the glace icing to be "Pineapple Puffs.—Cream one-third cup fat add 1 cup sugar gradually, creaming we'll together. Add 2 beaten eggs. Mix and sift 2 teaspoons baking powder 1J cups flour, and i teaspoon salt. Add alternately with i cup crushed or grated pineapple' to the creamed mixture. Pour into greased and floured muffin pans and bake 25 of 30 minutes in a moderate oven. Serve sprinkled with powdered sugar or 1 with a hot pudding sauce.