Eclairs Recipe

Ingredients for Eclairs

• 7 tablespoons corn oil
• 1 cup boiling water
• ½ teaspoon salt (scant)
• 1 scant cup flour
• 1 tablespoon Argo or Kingsford's Cornstarch
• 4 eggs

Instructions

1. Combine the water and corn oil in a saucepan, bring to boiling point, stir in the flour, salt and cornstarch, mixed.
2. The mixture will be very thick, and should be stirred rapidly until it forms a ball around the spoon.
3. Cool five minutes, then stir in the eggs, one at a time.
4. They should not be beaten.
5. Oil a large baking pan with corn oil, put the mixture in it in strips about three and a half inches long and one inch wide.
6. A pastry bag may be used for this purpose.
7. Bake thirty minutes in a moderate oven, 530 degrees F.
8. Cool, ice the top, split the side and fill with whipped cream or a Cooked Cream filling.