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Posts: 3261 08-31-09 2:10 PM |
I am in Europe this week.
Mu, I want to know how the hell they make such damn good bread over here. Recipe instructions for a monkey like me to follow plz thx.
Mork
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Posts: 4229 08-31-09 3:09 PM Mera's Master |
The answer is simple -- butter. Lots and lots of butter. And not the 2% milkfat kind we get in the states!
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
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Posts: 3283 08-31-09 4:04 PM Mortal Wombat |
Croissants are pasteries more than just bread, even though they're made from a dough and yeast and all that. Ken is right, a croissant has heaps of butter
in it, as well as the process of the layering.
http://www.foodbeam.com/2009/02/08/de-battre-mon-coeur-sest-arrete-croissants-parfaits/
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Posts: 288 09-02-09 1:02 PM |
see the movie Julie/Julia .....you will understand all about butter :)
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Posts: 5801 09-02-09 1:49 PM Raid Peon |
I've eaten some really "eh" croissants in France.
Just saying. 
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Posts: 497 09-02-09 5:02 PM |
My mother used to make 'real' croissants for Christmas morning. It was a ton of work, as she did the roll out the dough and spread the butter step
multiple times. They were certainly heavenly, though, and a true treat, since we only had them once a year.
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Posts: 4229 09-02-09 6:32 PM Mera's Master |
The wife and I will take a stroll by our favorite boulangerie/patisserie once in awhile and grab a baguette, brioche (for French toast) and a couple of the
croissant jambon-mornay.
This place is heavenly. Le Panier
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Posts: 3381 09-03-09 10:46 AM |
Yeah, the keys are butter and layering. In fact, I'm inclined to say that the layering is the more important of the two - mos of the "meh"
croissants I've had have been more like a croissant-shaped bread roll... Of course, it's a lot more work to make them properly.
Mind you, if you're willing to go to the effort of making them yourself, even better than a croissant is an aberdeen buttery. It's sort of like a croissant, but square and with half a pound of lard added.
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