The Art of French Pastry

dough. Cup the dough and start pressing on it while making clockwise circles. At first you need to press ha ...

one hand try shaping 2 pieces of dough at a time, 1 with each hand. When the shaping is done you should ...

make the dough dry and impossible to shape. After you shape the beignet spheres, press them flat with the p ...

amount of flour on the beignets and place a second towel on top of them. 3 Set the beignets in a war ...

mixing bowl. 4 Pour 1 to 2 quarts of canola or grapeseed oil into a large but not too deep pot ...

works well. Wipe away any oil that might be on the side of the pot. 5 When you think that the be ...

the pan over medium heat and warm up the oil to 340°F/171°C. Keep a thermometer in the oil during the entire fr ...

the frying pan and a sheet pan topped with a wire rack on the other side. Always work from one side to ...

safe way to do it is to place the beignet on a spider and slide it from the spider into the oil. If you use ...

it on the other side for 2½ minutes. Using the spider, transfer the beignet to the sheet pan topped with a ...

beignet in half to make sure that it is baked enough on the inside; this should set the standard for the timing ...

7 Make sure to bring the oil back up to temperature between batches. After your test beignet you ...

process and make them sit longer in the oil than they should. Putting too many in at the same time will also ...

Once all the beignets are fried, let the oil cool down overnight. Do not attempt to dispose of it while it is ...

see it begin to ooze around your pastry tip. IT’S DONE WHEN IT’S DONE The beignets should be golden br ...

room temperature and try to enjoy them the day you make them. Technically you can freeze a beignet, but the fla ...

You can fill the beignets with different flavors of jam or pastry cream. ...

THE BEIGNET IS THE PASTRY that almost made me quit my apprenticeship. Looking back, it would have been a ...

being a happy and worry- free teenager to a pastry professional responsible for a daily production. In Ja ...

special gear who rented an old farmhouse and goofed around in the snow, trying to pretend to ski. The casualties ...