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Choux à la crème vs Cream Puffs (French Cooking vs Old Time Recipe)

I did not find this recipe in my grandmother's box, but I am certain that she made them and even more certain that she loved them though we did always just call them cream puffs.  I looked up all the fancy french recipes for making these and followed one to the T.  I weighed the ingredients to get just right amounts and did everything else that seems to indicate that these are a fussy dessert to make.  I even made my own french pastry cream which called  back memories of a vanilla custard that my grandmother used to make.  Could pastry cream and Mom's vanilla custard be one and the same? They were very good. However, the old recipe that I used make with my mother without the weighing and fussiness was really quite close.  The choux à la crème are pictured but I show below the much simpler "cream puff" recipe.  1 stick butter 1 cup water 1 cup flour pinch of salt 4 eggs Melt one stick of butter in one cup of water and pinch of salt on the stove.  When the butt