The Art of French Pastry

You could not be late. It was an adventure for us to try to hold on to our sliding chairs every time we we ...

grandparents would give us a warm welcome, and while the adults drank a picon bière, the traditional Alsat ...

la moutarde—rabbit in mustard sauce. Then we would run around in the fields and gardens behind the house. It was an ...

to the village bakery to pick up d’flaischpàschtet, the Alsatian word for the warm meat pie. Half the villag ...

of Alsace; the people on one side of the village speak the Alsatian language, whereas those on the other speak o ...

marinated about six pounds of meat strips, enough to feed all thirteen of us, and brought it to the baker, who ...

golden brown. The aroma of the warm puff pastry and the pork that had been marinated with parsley, shallots, ...

JACQUY’S TAKEAWAYS If you don’t like pork you can substitute all veal or even chicken for it. You can add some vege ...

mixture. They must be cooked first, then added. The meat pie is best served warm as a main dish wit ...

• APPENDIX • FLOURISHES: LA CERISE SUR LE GÂTEAU ...

I n pastry we call decorations “la cerise sur la gâteau”—the cherry on the cake. They are never mandatory in my ...

Some flourishes are as simple as a hazelnut dipped in caramel in such a way that the hot sugar dripping off t ...

butter cream, mousseline, whipped cream, or, once you get comfortable with tempering chocolate, piped chocolate swirls. ...

practice and patience, like so many things in pastry. Using them will set your dessert presentations at a ...

HAZELNUT CARAMEL CURLS YIELD | UP TO 15 CURLS This is a clever and simple way to make a stunning decoration ...

professional chefs look for ways to create beautiful things in efficient ways. We never have much tim ...

kitchen: two blocks of butter, sugar, nuts, toothpicks, and gravity. The blocks of butter are stacked on top of each o ...

string. When the caramel is hard, we remove the toothpick and end up with a hazelnut with a long curvy tai ...

metric weights Equipment for Caramel 1 small sheet pan lined with parchment paper 1 silpat 8 to 15 toothpicks ...

the recipe) Read this recipe through twice from start to finish. UNDERSTANDING INGREDIENTS Hazelnuts are my fav ...