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German Puffs

A historical recipe from Mrs. Beeton's Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery The "All About It" Books, by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary).

A historical recipe

Mrs. Beeton's Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery The "All About It" Books, by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary). Project Gutenberg eBook #50191.

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From Mrs. Beeton's Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery The "All About It" Books, by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #50191 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50191). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Germany. Associated with Germany by a demonym leading its title: German (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Ingredients.—2 oz.
  2. of flour, 2 eggs, ½ pint of new milk, 2 oz.
  3. of melted butter, little salt and nutmeg.
  4. Mode.—Let the 2 eggs be well beaten, then mix all the ingredients well together, and heat them up just before they are put into little cups half full for baking.
  5. Bake for ¼ hour in a hot oven till the puffs are of a nice brown;
  6. turn out on a flat dish, rub a little butter over each puff, and dust on it powdered sugar.
  7. Time.—¼ hour.
  8. Average cost, 6_d.
  9. Seasonable at any time.