It took me three goes but eventually I managed to figure out how to cook choux pastry. Chocolate eclairs have essentially three components, the pastry, the filling and the icing. The later two are easier to prepare the choux pastry on the other hand is quite hard. The first attempt failed dismally, I'm talking bin material, because the ratio's of water to flower were completely wrong. The second attempt failed, still bin material, because I didn't cook them long enough. The third attempt worked well. The pastry was nice and crunchy on the top and slightly moist inside.
In order to ratify my last attempt I took some samplers to a house warming party and was given the thumbs up. Nice. I did find the reaction to my story rather entertaining. On the first attempt I made all three components but as the pastry was a disaster I threw the whole lot out. All of my female friends were horrified at this and started abusing me for not having eaten the filling. Still can't quite fathem why you would want to eat the filling all by itself.
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