Cream Puffs or Eclairs

• ¼ cup butter
• 1½ cups flour
• ¼ cup

Put boiling water, butter and lard in a large saucepan, and when it boils turn in flour. Beat well with a vegetable masher. When perfectly smooth remove from the fire, and as soon as cold break into it 5 eggs, 1 at a time, beating hard with the hand. When the mixture is thoroughly beaten (it will take about 20 minutes), spread on buttered s