Whenever I visited Cooperstown, I would make a daily stop at Schneider's bakery and pick up an eclair. I don't think I ever bought anything else from that bakery. The combination of pastry, cream filling and chocolate coating was the perfect combination for me. Behold my first eclair. It's not perfect but I'm sure it will be the first of many. We also made pastry puffs which is just a round, bite size eclair. The pastry is made from Pate a Choux (pot a shoo) which is french for cabbage paste. The puffs resemble heads of cabbage and the paste is aptly named. It sticks to everything. I'm almost scared to make them at home. Cleaning up is harder than making them. We have a 3 day weekend. Next Tuesday are muffins - as in blueberry muffins.
