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From Mrs. Beeton's household management (1907).

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A historical recipe

Mrs. Beeton's household management, by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton (1907).

United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards. Printed in United Kingdom: that says where the book was made, not where the dish comes from.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a pint of cream

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. Ingredients.
  2. — Choux paste (No.
  3. 1650), % a pint of cream, castor sugar.
  4. Method.
  5. — Shape the paste as directed in the recipe for Coffee Eclairs, and bake them from 10 to 15 minutes.
  6. When cool, make an incision on one side, scoop out the soft interior, and fill them with stiffly- whipped sweetened cream.
  7. Dredge with castor sugar, and serve.
  8. Time.
  9. — From i|- to i£ hours.
  10. Average Cost, 2d.
  11. each.
  12. Sufficient for i dish.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Whisk
Source public domain per archive.org metadata; unverified
Credit

From Mrs. Beeton's household management (1907), printed page 906, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mrsbeetonshouse00beetuoft

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.