Dessert Life: Romantic French Pastry

When it comes to cuisine, different countries and cultural backgrounds will produce different kinds of local cuisine, and dessert is no exception. And in the dessert industry occupies a place, is widely known as "French Pastry".

In French food culture, besides popular French cuisine, delicate desserts with exquisite appearance and complicated production process are often desired by everyone. The history of "French Pastry" began with simple pastries in the Middle Ages and was loved by royal nobles in the 19th century. It has a history of thousands of years since then, after continuous innovation and improvement by pastry chefs of successive generations. Today's French pastries occupy an important position in the international arena.

Here are some famous desserts from Paris, France. How many desserts do you recognize or name? Let's get to know them together!

1. Tarte Tatin

"Apple Tarte Tatin" is a beautiful mistake. Legend has it that this delicacy appeared in the hotel Tatin run by the Tatin sisters in Lamotte Beuvron, a small town in central France, in the 1880s. When making apple pie, due to the lack of busy hands, it was carelessly scorched in the butter syrup. In order to remedy the problem, the pie skin was covered in the pot and sent directly into the oven. The apple pie has become the restaurant's signature dessert. After being widely circulated, pears, pineapples and even tomatoes, onions and other vegetable versions have been developed.

2. Montblanc

Le Mont-Blanc is also a famous mountain in France. This mountain is in the Alps. The mountain range and part of it belong to Italy. Mont Blanc was given to France by Italy in the early 18th century. Cream, roasted protein and chestnut mud, the last sprinkle of snow white sugar powder is similar to Mont Blanc, which is covered with snow all year round. It is the origin of Montblanc.

3. macaron

Macaron's original recipe dates back to the Italian Renaissance. In 1533, French aristocrats brought Macaron to Versailles Palace. But the original version of Macaron was just a plain almond cake, with no sags. Until Lauduree, the epoch-making Parisian dessert for Macaron, appeared, adding butter pie and jam to his simple almond cake, a colorful horse. Caron began to get out of hand.

4. Opéra

Opéra, also known as Opera House, the elegant aristocrat of French desserts, has a centuries-old history and classical heritage. It is difficult to say who invented the Opera Cake. It is reported that one kind of Opera Cake was sold in Paris as early as 1890, and the largest Opera Cake was in Dalloyau. There, pastry chef Pascal made a cake, soft and smooth as an opera stage, glorious and beautiful.