The Thousand Layers of a Single Tarte
I. The first layer was the pastry itself. Marguerite Crosne had been making pâte feuilletée since she was twelve years old, standing on a wooden crate in her father's bakery, learning the rhythm of the fold. The motion was recursive: fold the butter into the dough, roll it out, fold again, roll again, repeat. Each fold multiplied the layers. Six folds produced seven hundred and twenty-nine...
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