No. 113 Cream Cakes
Ten eggs, ½ cupful of butter, ¾ pound of flour, 1 pint of water, 1½ pints of milk, 3 large tablespoonfuls of cornstarch, 2 cupfuls of sugar, yolks of 5 eggs, 1 large tablespoonful of good butter, and 2 teaspoonfuls of the extract of vanilla; set the water on the fire in a stewpan with the butter; as soon as it boils stir in the sifted flour with a wooden spoon; stir vigorously until it leaves the bottom and sides of the pan when removed from the fire, and beat in the eggs one at a time; place this batter into a pointed canvas bag having a nozzle at the small end; press out the batter in the shape of fingers on a greased baking tin a little distance apart; bake in a steady brick oven 20 minutes; when cold cut the sides and fill with pastry cream.