Free Recipe Choux Paste
Recipe Type: Free Recipes
Recipe Preparation: bake
Cooking Ingredients for Choux Paste Recipe
1/2 c Whole milk
1/2 c Water
7 tb Unsalted butter; cut in 7
-pieces
1 tb Granulated sugar
1 ts Salt
1-1/2 c All-purpose flour
6 lg Eggs; at room temperature
1 lg Egg; beaten with 1 tsp cold
-water, for wash
Choux Paste Preparation
Like soufflZs, popovers, and pita breads, choux paste is one of the miracles of the kitchen. You spoon an ordinary-looking batter onto a baking sheet and minutes later you”ve got a puffed pastry that appears to be threatening flight. This is the stuff of cream puffs, Zclairs, profiteroles, and dreams. Choux paste (choux sounds like shoe and means cabbage in French) has been around since the sixteenth century and is a must-know dough and a classic among p‰tissiers of note. It is a wonderful dough, which would be used more often today if caterers hadn”t made p‰te