History of croissant: A crescent-shaped pastry is probably traditional in Austria for at least the year 1000. It would be a pastry made in convents at Easter time, but with a simple yeast dough not puff , close kipferls current. In France, are mentioned in the inventory of French culinary heritage produced by the National Centre for Culinary Arts forty cakes growing served at a banquet hosted by the Queen of France in 1549 in Paris . It may be that the intention was then to commemorate the alliance a few decades ago of Francis I with the Grand Turk . However, several hypotheses attribute the origin increasing at a later date to 1683, in celebration of the victory of Polish and Austrian troops on troops Ottoman during the second siege of Vienna . Kipferl brioche, croissant precursor According to the first, while the enemy had decided to attack at night so as not to be noticed, the Viennese bakers, up before dawn, have sounded the alarm. This is to capture the victory would have been allowed to make the Hörnchen (little horn in German) with its shape reminiscent of the symbol of the Ottoman flag. The same legend is sometimes located in Budapest , then part of the Austro-Hungarian kingdom, but then it is the Turks who besieged (1686). According to another version, hundreds of soldiers and officers were present after the battle as a reward for their courage. Among them, Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki a soldier, spy, diplomat, merchant and owner of the first Polish Vienna coffee named Zur blauen Flasche he received 300 bags of black beans, unknown at the time in Europe, a treasure that the Turks had abandoned during flight. Intrigued, Kulczycki did grind coffee beans and proposed to Vienna, without success. He then came to the idea of serving the coffee and a pastry. He ordered from a bakery in town pastry which by its originality, would be able to promote coffee. Remembering the still open scar of the Turkish invasion, he decided to make pastries shaped Turkish crescent. Variant of South German: croissants with brine (Laugencroissant) Tradition makes Marie Antoinette of Austria , from Vienna, which would officially introduced and popularized in France growing from 1770 , hence the name of pastry.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 08:29:33 +0000
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