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Pommes dauphine, sometimes called dauphine potatoes, [1] are crisp potato puffs made by mixing mashed potatoes with savoury choux pastry, forming the mixture into quenelle shapes or rounds that are deep-fried at 170 to 180 °C (338 to 356 °F).
Gratin dauphinois is made with thinly sliced raw potatoes and cream, cooked in a buttered dish rubbed with garlic; cheese is sometimes added. The potatoes are peeled and sliced to the thickness of a coin, usually with a mandoline; they are layered in a shallow earthenware or glass baking dish and cooked in a slow oven; the heat is raised for the last 10 minutes of the cooking time.
Duchess potatoes (French: pommes de terre duchesse) consist of a purée of mashed potato, egg yolk, and butter, which is forced from a piping bag or hand-moulded into various shapes which are then baked in a high temperature oven until golden. [1] They are typically seasoned similarly to mashed potatoes with, for example, salt, pepper, and ...
The etymology of gratin is from the French language words gratter, meaning "to scrape" (from having to scrape the food out of the dish it was cooked in). [5] The technique predates the current name, which did not appear in English until 1846 (OED, s.v. "gratin").
Pommes boulangère or pommes à la boulangère – "baker's potatoes" [n 1] – is a savoury dish of sliced potato and onion, cooked slowly in liquid in an oven.
Viennoiseries (French: [vjɛnwazʁi]; English: "things in the style of Vienna") are French baked goods made from a yeast-leavened dough in a manner similar to bread, or from puff pastry, but with added ingredients (particularly eggs, butter, milk, cream and sugar), which give them a richer, sweeter character that approaches that of pastry. [1]
A vol-au-vent (pronounced , French for "windblown", to describe its lightness) is a small hollow case of puff pastry.It was formerly also called a patty case. [1]How to make vol-au-vents
The pastry, round, i.e. wheel-shaped, was created in 1910 by Louis Durand, pâtissier of Maisons-Laffitte, at the request of Pierre Giffard, to commemorate the 1,200 km (750 mi) Paris–Brest–Paris bicycle race he had initiated in 1891. [1]