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🥐 Croissants Aren’t French
Quick history before we bake this weekend.
The croissant isn’t French. Not originally. It traces back to Vienna, Austria, and a crescent pastry called the kipferl. That’s why this whole family of buttery breakfast pastries gets called viennoiserie, which literally means “things from Vienna.”
The French got hold of it, fell in love, and turned it into the buttery laminated pastry we know today. So the croissant you’ll be folding on Saturday is really an Austrian idea wearing a French tuxedo.
I put the whole story into a short video. Where it came from, the legend behind that crescent shape, and how it ended up in every French bakery window.
Worth ten minutes before you laminate.
Give it a like while you’re there, and tell me in the comments: did you know it wasn’t French? I sure didn’t when I started this research.
Perfection is not required. Progress is.
Henry ⭐🔥
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🥐 Croissants Aren’t French
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