Cream Puffs

Ingredients:

1 cup boiling water
4 level dessertspoons butter
1 cup sifted flour
Pinch of salt
3 eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder

Method:

1. Put boiling water and butter into enamel saucepan and boil.
2. Add sifted flour and salt, stirring well until mixture is smooth and leaves sides of pan.
3. Remove from fire and leave to cool a little.
4. Place cooled flour into bowl and stir, adding eggs, one at a time, beating well till smooth.
5. Add baking powder and continue beating till air bubbles begin to appear  in the mixture.
6. Arrange in small heaps on greased baking tin, using 2 teaspoons.
7. Bake in moderately hot oven (450 degrees F) for about 16 minutes. 
8. When cool, make slits at sides and fill with cream.

Filling for Cream Puffs A (Double it):
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon flour
1 teaspoon custard powder
1/4 cup sugar
yolk of 1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Method:
Mix flour and custard powder into thin paste with some milk. Add the beaten egg yolk. Boil rest of milk with sugar. Then add flour and custard powder mixture and stir well until it thickens. Add vanilla.

Filling for Cream Puffs B (Economical):
1 cup milk
4 teaspoons sugar
4 rounded teaspoons custard powder
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Method:
Boil milk and sugar. Add custard powder that has been made into paste with some cold milk.  When mixture thickens and boils, add vanilla.