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La
Gougere
Ingredients:
1 cup water
(or half milk/half water)
⅓ cup butter
½ teaspoon
salt
Fresh grated
nutmeg
Cayenne
pepper
1 cup flour
4 eggs
1 tablespoon
Dijon Mustard
1 cup gruyere
cheese
1 teaspoon
milk
Extra cheese
for top
Preparation:
Bring the
water/milk to a boil and add butter.
When butter
has melted remove pan from heat and add flour, salt, cayenne, nutmeg, pepper
and stir vigorously with a big wooden spoon.
The mixture
should come away from the sides of the pan and form a ball.
Place mixture
in the bowl of a large mixer and add one egg at a time beating well.
After you add
last egg continue to beat well.
Mixture will
be shiny.
Add Dijon
mustard and taste for seasoning.
Adjust to
your taste.
Add coarsely
grated cheese.
Butter a
large cookie sheet and flour.
Draw a small
circle in the flour (about 2 inches wide) and proceed to drop the dough by
tablespoon full around the outside of this hole, making a ring, or a crown.
Dough should
be piled high.
Brush lightly
with milk and sprinkle the extra cheese over top.
Bake the ring
in the oven for 45 minutes at 400°F.
Do Not Open
Door.
After baking,
open the door of the oven and leave the Gougere in the oven for 5 minutes.
It should be firm to the touch and golden
brown.
It goes great
with a glass of burgundy or with a white Alsatian wine.
Serve 4.
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