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A croissant (UK: / ˈ k r w ʌ s ɒ̃, ˈ k r w æ s ɒ̃ /, [1] US: / k r ə ˈ s ɒ n t, k r w ɑː ˈ s ɒ̃ /; French: ⓘ) is a French pastry in a crescent shape made from a laminated yeast dough similar to puff pastry. [2] It is a buttery, flaky, viennoiserie pastry inspired by the shape of the Austrian kipferl, but using the French yeast ...
This is a list of notable French breads, consisting of breads that originated in France. Baguette – a long, thin type of bread of French origin. [1] [2] The "baguette de tradition française" is made from wheat flour, water, yeast, and common salt. It may contain up to 2% broad bean flour, up to 0.5% soya flour, and up to 0.3% wheat malt ...
Croissant. Buttery and flaky, savory or sweet. Its original name “kipferl” dates back to the 13th-century.Much later, in the 1800s, an Austrian officer opened a bakery in France, later ...
Pains au chocolat prior to baking. Pain au chocolat (French: [pɛ̃ o ʃɔkɔla] ⓘ; lit. ' bread with chocolate '), also known as chocolatine (French: [ʃɔkɔlatin] ⓘ) in the south-west part of France and in French speaking parts of Canada, couque au chocolat in Belgium, or chocolate croissant in the United States, is a type of Viennoiserie pastry consisting of a cuboid-shaped piece of ...
Profiterole. Some French pastries also start with pâte à choux, or choux paste, a hot dough made by cooking water, butter, flour, and eggs together in a saucepan; when it bakes, it puffs up and ...
The annals of food history records the croissant's predecessor, the crescent-shaped "kipferl" bread as being served in France in 1839, according to the Institute of Culinary Education. But it wasn ...
Viennoiseries (French: [vjɛnwazʁi]; English: "things in the style of Vienna") are French baked goods made from a yeast-leavened dough in a manner similar to bread, or from puff pastry, but with added ingredients (particularly eggs, butter, milk, cream and sugar), which give them a richer, sweeter character that approaches that of pastry. [1]
Take croissants, for example. They’re not French; they were invented in Vienna, Austria, where moon-shaped breads date back centuries. Their history is about as indeterminate as pizza.