• 01/02 Cream Puff Day - 1

    From Dave Drum@1:229/452 to All on Fri Dec 31 22:00:18 2021
    January 2: National Cream Puff Day

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    Title: Cream Puff Swans
    Categories: Desserts, Pastry, Citrus, Dairy
    Yield: 6 Servings

    1 c Water
    1/2 c Butter
    1 c All-purpose flour
    1/4 ts Salt
    4 lg Eggs
    11 oz Can Mandarin orange slices;
    - well-drained
    1 c Heavy cream
    2 tb Powdered sugar; sifted

    Melt butter in water and bring to a boil. Sift flour
    with salt and add to butter mixture. Heat, stirring,
    until mixture forms a ball. Remove from heat and add
    eggs, one at a time, beating well between each addition.

    Put 1/3 of dough into a pastry bag and pipe through
    largest hole onto greased baking sheet, forming six
    S-shaped pastries, each about 3 inches long. These
    will form necks and heads of swans. Scrape any dough
    remaining in pastry bag into rest of dough. On a
    separate, greased baking sheet, form remaining dough
    into six ovals, drawing dough to a point at one end
    and rounding other end of oval. These will be bodies
    of swans.

    Place baking sheet with oval cream puffs into the oven
    at 425ºF/220ºC and bake for 10 minutes. Place the other
    baking sheet in oven and continue to bake both batches
    of dough another 10 minutes. Turn oven down to 350ºF/
    175ºC and bake 5 minutes more, or until "heads" of
    swans are done. Bake "bodies" 5-10 minutes longer or
    until done.

    As baking sheets are taken from oven, remove pastries
    to racks to cool. Cool completely. Cut an oval from
    the top of each "body" and cut in half. Scoop any
    uncooked dough from "bodies".

    Whip cream until stiff. Beat in powdered sugar, to
    taste.

    Put a spoonful of well-drained Mandarin oranges in
    each "body", dividing equally among the six. Top with
    equal amounts of whipped cream. Place S-shapes in
    whipped cream at rounded ends to form neck and head.
    Place half-ovals in whipped cream behind "necks" to
    form wings.

    Serve at once.

    NOTES : Substitute 1 cup fresh or frozen berries,
    sweetened if desired, for oranges.

    Recipe By: Elizabeth Powell

    From: http://www.recipesource.com

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