The little girl's dream is to eat candy, while my childhood dream is to eat pickled vegetables with black pimples.
I can't stand sugar because I don't eat it. When I was a child, eating too sweet made me dizzy and nauseous.
Then I naturally went to the dessert kingdom: France.
Good people can't starve to death. In the harsh living environment, generate gave me an excellent spirit of reverse growth.
For more than ten years, I fell in love with dessert.
After moving to Paris, the capital of desserts, I basically go to dessert shops with fame, history, connections, technology and money to eat. After eating, I licked my spoon and communicated with Lu Zhonghan, which was very beneficial.
For me, dessert can have many explanations.
Romantically speaking, appetizers and main courses are physical changes, and desserts are more similar to chemical changes. So dessert is closer to love.
"Noble" said: Dessert is a little pleasure after tea. A small one is placed in a silver plate engraved with a family badge, waiting for the vegetarian hand with chlamydia to be sent into the bright red lips and teeth with a shiny silver spoon. Elegant and fragrant.
"Zen" said: Sweet is a taste that people can't stop. Love sweet, like sweet, but the product that can be put away freely is sweet but not gluttonous, and the product is your spotless heart like a mirror.
When it comes to dessert, I feel happy and beaming.
Today I'm going to introduce the five most classic French desserts I learned in previous lives.
I was going to write nine paragraphs, but I really couldn't write them.
If you like, write next time. If you don't like it, it will save me trouble.
Foodies, now sit on the small bench and fasten the saliva towel. You can save your saliva and listen to the story.
Baba Aarum
This should start with the aristocratic families in Europe. They will always get married.
In the 17th century, there was a Polish king named stanislas Leszczynski, whose specialty was that he could not remember. He is the real father-in-law of Louis XV.
I haven't studied why stanislas came to France after several years as Polish king. Anyway, he came to Nancy, France, and became the Prince of Lorraine where Nancy was located.
One day, the prince was eating Kougelhopf bread and felt very thirsty. Catholics, according to the doctrine, bread cannot be thrown away. Because bread is the body of Christ.
In order to eat his dry bread, the thrifty prince came up with an idea and poured a wine called Tokay on it, which was delicious.
Here we have to add: Kougelhopf is a traditional sweet bread with milk in Alsace, and there are some raisins in it.
Then why is this dessert called Baba?
It is said that in Poland, there is a dessert called Baba, or Babka, which also uses wine to pour bread, which is almost reasonable.
But more people prefer another view:
At that time, the prince was in opposition. In order to kill time, he read Arabian Nights, and his favorite story was Alibaba and the Forty Thieves.
This proves that great people in the world have the same idea and take the opportunity to kiss up to "Father Ma". So the prince used his father's name.
But if you ask me, the well-informed prince should have thought of these two points, right?
Invented by the prince, it became a necessary dessert for all formal religious occasions in aristocratic society.
Born and exposed, Baba Aurum naturally became the most classic dessert in France. Europe can even spell desserts, let alone people.
1835 There is a dessert chef named Nicolas Stonhrer, who is said to be a direct descendant of the royal dessert chef X, who was brought to France by the prince from Poland, and opened a exclusive Baba dessert shop in Paris.
After his hard research, he found that rum is the best choice to go with Kougelhopf bread.
From then on, the greatest and most classic Baba allam was born.
Babakin is Napoleon's favorite dessert.
Please don't pout and say, "Lu Lu badminton, don't talk nonsense. Napoleon's favorite must be Napoleon cake. "
I can assure you that Napoleon himself didn't know about Napoleon's cake. But this is the next story, please wait patiently.
Napoleon not only loved Baba allam best, but also gave full play to the innovative talent of the French. Sometimes he replaces rum with Limoncello, an Italian lemon liqueur, and advocates that Baba Aurum should be accompanied by original vanilla ice cream.
Miller-Foye
Mille-Feuille means thousand layers.
No one knows about Mille-Feuille, but no one knows about Napoleon cake.
In Qingdao in the mid-1990s, the most famous West Point was Oriental Hotel. Napoleon cake is the most expensive cake in the store, and 5 yuan is the only one. Every time I silently swallow saliva and walk past the window.
One day my local tyrant mother came back and said, "I went to the Oriental Hotel and bought some cakes by the way. You can eat in the kitchen. "
I ran to see, there are two pieces of Napoleon, two pieces.
For the sake of my reputation as a foodie, I was so sick that I insisted on eating those two pieces.
However, I don't remember that the Napoleon cake in the Oriental Hotel has thousands of layers of skin. I only remember that there are many layers of sweet cream inside, and there is a layer of roasted almond slices outside.
When I went to France, Mille-Feuille, like fruit pie, was one of my favorite desserts.
But French Melaleuca Cake and China's Napoleonic Cake look so different that I never thought to connect them.
Melaleuca cake is a very old French classic cake.
Fran, the originator of French cuisine? Ois Pierre de La Varenne is a dessert that has been recorded in the 165 1 menu. Later, many famous chefs recorded this dessert, and everyone had their own experiences and changes.
In fact, the essence of French cuisine is not to keep the tradition unchanged, but to constantly integrate new elements and innovate.
The focus of this dessert is cakes. When you first do it, it is divided into six steps, and each step has to be folded several times. After calculation, each cake was folded by 729 layers.
Later, André Guillot, a landmark chef in the history of French cuisine, improved the folding method of cakes, so that each layer of cakes was folded 2048 times.
This thousand layers of skin is worthy of the name.
Authentic French Mille-Feuille has three layers of cakes, with two layers of dessert cream in the middle and icing on them. Sometimes the cream added in the middle can be exchanged for jam or fruit.
But what does Miller-Foye have to do with Napoleon?
The conclusion is that it doesn't matter
There is a city in southern Italy called Naples, which also produces a famous pastry.
"Naples" means Naples in French.
Napoleon Napoleon and Napoleon tain have the same first five letters and similar pronunciations. Besides, Mille-Feuille is a French dessert. In some English-speaking countries, it became a Napoleon cake.
Although Mille-Feuille is delicious, it is one of the most important desserts in France. Since it became Napoleon's cake, its value has doubled and spread all over the world.
In terms of years, Napoleon himself must have eaten Napoleon cake. But when Napoleon ate it himself, he certainly didn't know that the cake would be renamed Napoleon in the near future.
At least there is no evidence that Napoleon himself likes this dessert. The smell of wine is too small to appetize.
If you want to be famous, you can succeed without Baba Aurum's dad-playing route or Mille-Feuille's hype route.
b？ Car's? l
b？ Car: firewood; No? L: Christmas.
b？ Car's? L is Christmas firewood cake.
During the Spring Festival, especially in Shandong, you can eat all kinds of delicacies, but jiaozi can't. How can we celebrate the New Year without eating jiaozi?
On the Christmas Eve of February 24th, 65438, the status in Catholic countries is probably equivalent to the Spring Festival in China, and the family should get together for the best meal of the year.
According to different regions and families, there are some different traditional foods, such as foie gras, oysters and salmon, which can be eaten or not, but in France, Belgium, Quebec, Canada and even Vietnam and Lebanon, in all French-speaking countries, this kind of Christmas Eve firewood cake is essential.
b？ Car's? L, a kind of cake roll, can be coated with jam, cream, chestnut sauce, whatever you find at hand, and then coated with butter-based cream (Crème) to make it look like a trunk, often chocolate; Brown is just right for bark.
Firewood cakes are often decorated with anti-sugar Santa Claus, dwarfs, elk, mushrooms and other Christmas decorations.
Why do you have to eat firewood cakes? In fact, there are different opinions about the origin. There are two more credible:
When Jesus was born in the stable at the end of1February, the angels lit firewood in the stable to prevent the baby from freezing to death. The firewood cake symbolizes the firewood lit by an angel.
There is another saying:
Since the Middle Ages, the French have a custom of lighting a fireplace with a very stout fruit tree to keep warm on Christmas Eve. The bigger the firewood, the better. It can last for 12 days, at least for 3 days, so that the next year will be beneficial to harvest.
Later, the city became bigger and bigger, the houses became smaller and smaller, the big fireplace slowly disappeared, and the firewood was left on Christmas Eve in the form of cakes.
Canel de bordeaux
Canelé is a small cake about 5 cm high and 5 cm in diameter, which is a little burnt. It is the most famous and traditional dessert in Bordeaux today.
Why do I use quotation marks on the word "most traditional"? You will know after reading it.
Canelé is a derivative of Bordeaux wine.
In the process of wine brewing, there is a step called collage. Simply put, it is necessary to add a little protein to the liquid to help purify the floating objects in the liquid.
This technology is widely used in the manufacture of red wine, beer and even fruit juice. Even today, some of Bordeaux's most traditional and high-quality wineries still use this ancient and expensive way to purify red wine.
It's brewing season. What is the whole winery doing?
Beat the eggs, then separate the egg whites from the yellow ones. The winery will give the extra yolk to charitable nuns everywhere.
The nuns took the yolk and made a snack wrapped in sugar cane from a thin dough. The French sugarcane is called Canne, and that's how the name Cannelé came from.
But in modern times, people have done a lot of digging in the monastery where nuns live, and it is useless to find any molds that look like modern Canel.
It can be concluded that the modern Canelé is not a nun's canelé at all, but a reborn canelé.
Not far from Bordeaux, there is a city called Limoges and a dessert called canole, which is made of flour and egg yolk.
It spread to Bordeaux and used another name, canaule, which is the predecessor of today's Canelé.
Please don't ask me why all desserts in Bordeaux start with "cans".
Bordeaux has a large amount of sea flour, as well as inexhaustible egg yolk from wineries, which has become a favorite dessert of Carnaule people in Bordeaux, with an amazing output.
At 1663, there are many workshops in Bordeaux that only produce Kanule. The owners of these workshops all earned a lot of money, and together they decided to organize trade unions to form an industry monopoly.
However, this decision was strongly opposed by the existing bread and dessert union.
The objection raised by the Bread and Dessert Alliance is that anything mixed with sugar and milk is a dessert. As long as the dessert is our responsibility.
Therefore, canaule Workshop, in its spare time without delaying sales, struggled with the dessert union for almost a hundred years in order to properly mix sugar and milk.
1755 on March 3, the French parliament held a meeting in Versailles and decided to agree that the Kanule trade union can mix sugar and milk.
I can't help laughing when I read this. How big is sesame? Congress wants to make a resolution. I still remember that day clearly.
By 1767, the canaule trade union had become so powerful that the Bordeaux municipal government required that there could only be eight canaule workshops in the city.
Canaule trade union continued the fighting style of 100 years, and turned a blind eye to other people's demands. In the heyday of Bordeaux, there were 39 large workshops.
But strangely, by the19th century, all canaule had disappeared, and disappeared in Bordeaux.
In the 20th century, a dessert chef in Bordeaux reconstructed canaule according to the formula of fragments found.
Discovering the spirit of innovation, I revised the menu and added vanilla and rum. According to today's research, the special shape of Canelé should also be created by this dessert chef.
However, until 1970, the first French food review manual, Gault &; Millau ",the book does not take Canelé as a dessert.
It was not until 1985 that the Canelé guild appeared in Bordeaux, and the second letter "n" was removed to become Canelé. Confirm the formula, definition and scope of Canelé.
Since then, Canelé has become the most famous "traditional" dessert in Bordeaux, with a history of about 40 years.
Paris-Brest
Paris and Brest are two cities in France.
Paris: Paris, this need not be introduced.
Brest: Brest is a seaport city at the top of Brittany Peninsula, on the French side, facing Britain.
It is 600 kilometers from Paris to Brest, and the round trip is 1200 kilometers, which is equivalent to the one-way distance from Beijing to Shanghai.
Yes 1200 km. The plane takes more than an hour and the high-speed train takes six and a half hours. How long do you think it will take to ride a bike?
I know I'm talking about dessert. This time I am on this theme. Don't interrupt me yet.
After the popularity of bicycles, the British first organized long-distance field races. This is a naked challenge to French men across the strait.
"Made a mistake? How can we show weakness in front of the British? "
In June 189 1, 1 1, Pierre Giffard organized the 1200 km bike cross-country challenge through the famous newspaper Le petit journal with the support of publishers and consortia. It is 12 years earlier than the Tour de France which started on 1903.
Although there are many changes in the middle, it is the most famous bicycle challenge in the world until today.
This challenge is open not only to professional athletes, but also to anyone in the world.
The current record is 42 hours and 26 minutes, less than two days. It's really amazing.
Lu Zhonghan's brother, a father's brother and a mother's brother, took part in two PBP challenges, 20 1 1 and 20 15.
The score of 15 years is 80 hours 3 1 minute. There are more than two thousand people in their group, and he is 269. There should be applause here.
Paris-Brest was invented in 19 10 by Maisons-la fitte, a dessert chef in the suburbs of Paris, at the request of Pierre Giffard, the initiator of bicycle challenge.
Use puffs to make the dough into doughnuts with a diameter of about 10 cm, cut it horizontally, and put whipped cream, caramel and roasted almond slices in it.
Round and hollow shapes symbolize bicycle wheels.
When it was first invented, Paris-Brest used sweet bread dough instead of puff dough, so the diameter can reach 30 to 50 cm, which is more like a bicycle wheel.
Why not invent it in Maisons-la fitte in Paris? Mainly the founder Pierre Giffard. He was born and lived here, and the moon came first, so the job was given to the dessert boy at the door.
If you want to go down in history, you have to stay in the north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen if you have no father, can't touch you and can't rely on yourself.
Who knows which neighbor will rain?