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San Francisco Baking Institute. Coordinates: 37.65413°N 122.38657°W. The San Francisco Baking Institute (SFBI) is a private, unaccredited culinary school in South San Francisco, California founded by Michel Suas and his wife Evelyne Suas in 1996. The school hosts bread and pastry classes for professional and amateur bakers, as well as baking ...
Pastry refers to a variety of doughs (often enriched with fat or eggs), as well as the sweet and savoury baked goods made from them. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] These goods are often called pastries as a synecdoche, and the dough may be accordingly called pastry dough for clarity. [ 4 ] Sweetened pastries are often described as bakers' confectionery.
Egyptian Museum, Turin. Bread was central to the formation of early human societies. From the Fertile Crescent, where wheat was domesticated, cultivation spread north and west, to Europe and North Africa, and east toward East Asia. This in turn led to the formation of towns, which curtailed nomadic lifestyles, and gave rise to more and more ...
Preparation varies by type. For yeast-leavened beignets, the ingredients are combined and a dough has formed, it is rolled out and then sliced into squares which are deep-fried for two to three minutes. The result is a puffy, golden brown pastry. [10] For choux pastry beignets, the chilled dough is piped or scooped before being fried in hot oil ...
Brioche. Brioche (/ ˈbriːoʊʃ /, also UK: / ˈbriːɒʃ, briːˈɒʃ /, [1] US: / briːˈoʊʃ, ˈbriːɔːʃ, briːˈɔːʃ /, [2][3][4] French: [bʁijɔʃ]) is a pastry of French origin whose high egg and butter content gives it a rich and tender crumb. The chef Joël Robuchon described it as "light and slightly puffy, more or less fine ...
A croissant (UK: / ˈ k r w ʌ s ɒ̃, ˈ k r w æ s ɒ̃ /, [1] US: / k r ə ˈ s ɒ n t, k r w ɑː ˈ s ɒ̃ /; French: ⓘ) is a French pastry made from puff pastry in a crescent shape. [2]It is a buttery, flaky, viennoiserie pastry inspired by the shape of the Austrian kipferl, but using the French yeast-leavened laminated dough. [3]
Baguette. A baguette (/ bæˈɡɛt /; French: [baɡɛt] ⓘ) is a long, thin type of bread of French origin [3] that is commonly made from basic lean dough (the dough, not the shape, is defined by French law). [4] It is distinguishable by its length and crisp crust. A baguette has a diameter of about 5 to 6 cm (2– 2⁄ in) and a usual length ...
List of pastries. Pastries are small buns made using a stiff dough enriched with fat. Some dishes, such as pies, are made of a pastry casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savory ingredients. The five basic types of pastry dough (a food that combines flour and fat) are shortcrust pastry, filo pastry, choux ...