Churros

The churro is Mexico’s answer to the funnel cake ... or maybe the funnel cake is the United States’s answer to the churro. But which treat came first isn’t important; what matters is how good it is.

The dry and wet ingredients here combine in a way that’s out of the ordinary for this book, and it involves cooking the dough on the stovetop to a midway point. The result is so worth the extra couple of steps. This procedure, which makes a classic choux paste, also applies to the