{"id":8899,"date":"2021-10-06T15:19:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/?p=8899"},"modified":"2021-11-22T05:00:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:00:25","slug":"gougeres-french-cheese-puffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/gougeres-french-cheese-puffs.html","title":{"rendered":"Gougeres (French cheese puffs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Goug\u00e8res<\/i><em> (pronounced\u00a0goo-zhair) are French cheese puffs made with a simple pate a choux dough. Serve them plain like a roll or cut them open and fill for an appetizer.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t tell anyone how easy they are to make.\u00a0 &#8220;Oh, they are FRENCH you know!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 c water<\/li>\n<li>6 Tab butter cut into pieces<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd tsp\u00a0 salt<\/li>\n<li>\u215b tsp pepper<\/li>\n<li>pinch\u00a0nutmeg<\/li>\n<li>1 c all purpose flour<\/li>\n<li>4\u00a0large\u00a0eggs<\/li>\n<li>1 c cheese, grated (Gruy\u00e8re, Comt\u00e9 or Emmentaler, Swiss, cheddar, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>1\u00a0large\u00a0egg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat oven to 425\u00b0.<\/li>\n<li>Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or butter it generously.<\/li>\n<li>In a heavy bottom pan, bring water, butter, salt, pepper and nutmeg to a boil.<\/li>\n<li>When butter is melted and water is boiling, remove from heat.<br \/>\nWith a wooden spoon stir in flour.<\/li>\n<li>Cook over medium high heat for 1-2 minutes. The dough should leave the side of the pan clean and a slight film on the bottom.<\/li>\n<li>Remove from heat.<\/li>\n<li>Some recipes suggest moving the dough to the bowl of a stand mixer and adding the eggs with a paddle attachment.\u00a0 You can also leave it in the pan and beat it with a hand mixer.<\/li>\n<li>Make a well in the center of the dough.<\/li>\n<li>Add one egg.<\/li>\n<li>Beat in egg until incorporated.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat with three more eggs, stirring each one in completely before adding the next.<\/li>\n<li>Stir the cheese into the warm dough.<\/li>\n<li>Place dough in a pastry bag (or plastic bag with a corner cut out) or use a soup spoon to make 1 inch diameter and 1 inch high mounds (optional: for a true Julia Child touch, make a small peak on the top of the mound).\u00a0 We use a cookie press with a die with a 1\/2 inch hole.\u00a0 Use scissors to cut the dough off the press.<\/li>\n<li>Drop the dough on the prepared baking sheets, leaving about 2 inches between the mounds.<\/li>\n<li>SECRET &#8211; don&#8217;t tell: At this point you can put the cookie sheet in the freezer.\u00a0 When the little treasures are frozen about one hour, slide them into a bag and, voila!, you have gougeres instantly &#8211; day or night.\u00a0 Keep Champagne in the fridge and you have a party.<\/li>\n<li>In a small bowl combine remaining egg and \u00bd teaspoon of water. Brush the egg mixture lightly on top of the puffs without letting it drip all the way to the parchment paper. This will prevent the puffs from rising.<\/li>\n<li>Bake the Goug\u00e8res for 10 minutes at 450\u00b0.<\/li>\n<li>Then turn the oven down to 350\u00b0 and bake for an additional 17-23 minutes, until they are nicely golden brown and feel firm when tapped.<\/li>\n<li class=\"wprm-recipe-instruction-text\">Let the Goug\u00e8res cool slightly on a wire rack before serving. (The Goug\u00e8res are best served warm.)<\/li>\n<li>They also freeze (unbaked) incredibly well.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Serves:\u00a0<\/strong> 25-30 gougeres<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>thatrecipe.com\/blog\/gougeres-french-cheese-puffs-a-la-julia-child-ourfamilytable and several others<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goug\u00e8res (pronounced\u00a0goo-zhair) are French cheese puffs made with a simple pate a choux dough. Serve them plain like a roll or cut them open and fill for an appetizer.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t tell anyone how easy they are to make.\u00a0 &#8220;Oh, they are FRENCH you know!&#8221; Ingredients: 1 c water 6 Tab butter cut into pieces \u00bd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/gougeres-french-cheese-puffs.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gougeres (French cheese puffs)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appetizers","category-breads-rolls-muffins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8899"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8994,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899\/revisions\/8994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}