Category Archives: Gastronomy
Wonderful and delicious Christmas pastries in 2020
Parisian pastries 2/2
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The Flan pâtissier is a flan (an egg cream beaten with milk and baked in an oven) put on a short pastry. « Baba au rhum is a light cake raised with yeast, containing raisins and dried fruits and soaked … Continue reading
Parisian pastries 1/2
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Chouquettes are small choux pastries with pearl sugar. The choux pastry dated from the 16th century and was invented by the Italian Popelini who was the pastry cook of the French Queen Catherine de Médicis (1519-1589). In 1760, Jean Avice … Continue reading
Tea time in Paris 4
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This floral wall was designed by Nicolas Gilsoul for the tenth anniversary of the exhibition “Jardins, Jardin”. Moreover, the cups are from Villeroy & Boch (Manoir tasse à café sans soucoupe).
Photo source : garancejardin.canalblog.com
Tea time in Paris 11
Dammann teapots, teacups and samovar. Zuber wallpaper and Gervasoni table.
Tea time in Paris 3
Tea time in Paris 1
Dammann teapot (five o clock).
Homemade Alsatian Christmas pastries
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We made Alsatian pastries for Christmas : Cinnamon stars or Zimtsterne (soft cinnamon cakes recovered with icing sugar), Kouglof (Brioche with raisins and almonds, shaped in a special mould with a hole in the middle) , Spiced bredele, Florentins (biscuits … Continue reading