Sometimes my will power is weak, and I add these to my shopping cart. I try not to do this too often because they're too delicious and contain about a gazillion calories.
Yesterday, I had a good excuse for buying them—so I could celebrate Croissant Day today. (A perfect excuse to give into one of my food guilty pleasures. So, as I write this, I'm nibbling on a croissant and sipping a cup of tea.
DID YOU KNOW
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| NOT Croissant!! |
The croissant began life as kipferl, a crescent-shaped bread roll, baked for centuries in Austria. The French connection was created around 1838 by August Zang, an Austrian artillery officer who introduced the pastry to Paris when he opened a Viennese bakery, Boulangerie Viennoise there.
Later, French bakers later changed the original dense dough into the flaky, buttery puff pastry we know today. They also changed the name to croissant which means, of course, crescent.
By the 20th century, all French bakers had adopted the further refined technique that changed the dense dough to the laminated dough—layers of dough spread with butter, folded and rolled again and again.
I could watch those bakers on The Great British Baking Show make that delightful pastry for hours on end. Thankfully, it's SO much hard work that I've never had the inclination to make a croissant from scratch. Sometimes, laziness is its own reward.
TAKEAWAY TRUTH
Well, that's my food guilty pleasure confession for today. Do you have food guilty pleasures? Inquiring minds want to know so leave a comment.
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