1 cup water or milk - 1/2 pint.

3 tablespoons sugar - 3 ounces.

1 heaping tablespoon starch - 1 ounce.

Butter size of a walnut.

1 egg, (2 yolks are better.)

Lemon or vanilla flavoring.

Boil the water or milk with the sugar in it Mix the starch with a little water extra; pour it in the saucepan and stir up. Then before it has boiled again, add the egg and butter and stir until the mixture becomes quite thick - perhaps ten minutes. Flavor when cool. Fill the puff with it by means of a tea-spoon, the puffs being cut open at the side.

Note - The preceding kind of pastry cream makes a good lemon cream pie if a small lemon is added to it. Grate the rind and squeeze in the juice.

Cost of corn starch puffs and cream filling - 27 cents for 20 to 25.