No. Eclairs are made from choux pastry. Choux pastry involves cooking flour,butter and water, then adding egg. The egg acts as a leavening agent in a choux pastry. A puff pastry uses layers of butter or other solid fat between a bread type dough that puffs up due to air and water expansion between layers of fat and dough for leavening, it does not contain egg.
choux pastry ;]
1. shortcrust pastry 2.flaky pastry 3.puff pastry 4.choux pastry
Phyllo pastry,Suet pastry,Puff pastry,Choux pastry
it was invented in the 1533 :)
chocolate cake
Shortening gives the pastry a crisp, light texture.
They are both types of pastry.
Not sure what you mean by "methods of cookery," but choux pastry is baked for use in things such as eclairs and profiteroles. And yes, it is spelled with an "x."
you must not open the oven door in the first 15 minutes of baking a choux pastry, because it well explode or deflate.
the advantages of making Choux Pastry at home are : It is Cheaper and they are fresher. Also very 'Yummy'the disadvantages : they may not com out right, may have a sour taste, or be the wrong size etc....
Pate a choux or choux paste is used for making pastries such as eclairs or small balls of pastry which look like little cabbages (choux in french)