Gougère (Gruyère Puff Pastry)

The savory gougère, its crunchy outside contrasting with the tender inside, is made in various parts of France but associated especially with Burgundy. A recipe from the early 1700s sounds like today’s, and the gougère may be much older than that. It can be formed in a large ring, but now the shape is more often petits choux, little balls, to go with ap…