The Art of French Pastry

149°F/65°C, making sure to rotate the bowl and whisk everywhere to prevent the eggs from scrambling. Immediately rem ...

mixture should now be fluffy, light, and pale in color. Turn the speed down to medium and beat for another 3 mi ...

into the egg mixture. 7 Stop the mixer and, using a rubber spatula, carefully transfer the egg mixtu ...

bowl with your spatula, as this is where the flour likes to settle. Add the remaining flour and continu ...

more efficient because of its multiple metal wires, so you will have to fold less than you fold with ...

9 Place the cake pan on a sheet pan in the preheated oven and bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until li ...

The cake should be golden brown and very moist in the center. Check the doneness by inserting a paring knife ...

cake refrigerated, wrapped tightly in plastic wrap, for 2 to 3 days or frozen for 1 month. VARIATION To make ...

JACQUY’S TAKEAWAYS You can grease the cake pan with the butter and flour mixture instead of lining the mold with p ...

instead of a metal cake pan, in which case you would not have to butter the mold or line it with parc ...

lamala at Easter using an earthenware mold. If using a shaped mold, use the butter and flour mixture to grease it. ...

ONE EARLY DECEMBER MORNING three months into the first year of my apprenticeship with Jean Clauss, my boss ...

grams of sugar, which we’d whip until hot on the stove as we do in this much smaller recipe. Jean Clauss k ...

lot stronger than my arms. Jean Clauss explained to me how it was done and I began to whip. After a f ...

like me wasn’t up to the task. After 3 or 4 minutes of whipping I looked at him, turned off the stove ...

muscles for this task hadn’t developed yet. The muscles needed for pastry making are not obvious ones; they’re in ...

takes to develop the necessary muscles. By the following December I had the forearms, and I was in charge o ...

that I’d stuck with it and that now I could do the task. ...

JELLY ROLL SPONGE / GÉNOISE ROULADE YIELD | ONE 12 × 17–INCH CAKE (1 SHEET PAN) ...

This recipe makes a thin, moist rectangular sponge cake that you can use for a Yule log, a jelly roll, ...