• @TheBananaKing
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    103 days ago

    Croissants. Tasty and pretty, but a ridiculous amount of fiddly work with all the rolling and folding.

    Ditto puff pastry from scratch.

    • @[email protected]
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      63 days ago

      Traditional versions also contain ~50% butter by total pre-cooking weight. (Hello heart-health my old friend…)

      Dunno about your area, but there’s some pretty awesome frozen puff pastry sold in thin-ish sheets at most stores around here. It bakes up quick and almost magically multi-layered, and I would not for a million years be able to tell it from scratch puff pastry from une belle boulangerie.

      • @TheBananaKing
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        22 days ago

        Yeah, frozen puff pastry is a go-to ingredient. You just won’t catch me making it by hand because as my grandmother used to say, bugger that for a game of soldiers.