Pain au chocolat

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A "pain au chocolat"

In France, two types of pastry are known as pain au chocolat :

  • a baguette that is filled with a chocolate bar after baking
  • a kind of chocolate croissant

The following article mainly deals with the croissant.

The Pain au chocolat in Südfwestfrankreich chocolatine called, is a French pastry made of puff pastry or puff pastry with a chocolate filling . The Danish pastry used for pains au chocolat has the same composition as the one used to bake croissants . Although not shaped as a croissant, some manufacturers in Germany offer it as a “chocolate croissant”.

The Pain au chocolat is popular with children and is considered in France as a symbol of break bread for students. The French chef Alain Ducasse called it "the undisputed masterpiece of French pastry ".

Manufacturing

The following images show the artisanal production of pains au chocolat in a Belgian bakery.

  • Cover the rolled out dough with chocolate sticks

  • Rolled up and cut dough pieces

Designations

There are two names for the pastry, which are geographically distributed differently. The border ( Isogloss ) for this runs between La Rochelle and Béziers . South of this line the name chocolatine is used, north of it pain au chocolat.

Web links

Commons : Pain au chocolat  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the subject: the “chocolatine” - Karambolage - ARTE, accessed on July 12, 2018 at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMRSrsKFa7c
  2. ^ Jacques L. Rolland, Carol Sherman: The Food Encyclopedia. Over 8,000 Ingredients, Tools, Techniques and People . Rose, Toronto 2006, ISBN 0-7788-0150-0 (keyword pain au chocolat ).
  3. ↑ a b The other Viennoiserien on france.fr (information department of the French government). ( Memento of July 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Colette Monsat: Les meilleurs pains au chocolat de Paris , Le Figaro, September 3, 2008, accessed on June 17, 2014 (French).
  5. ^ A b Alain Ducasse, Nicolas Berger, Sylvie Girard-Lagorce: Chocolat. Mots et gestes . 2013, ISBN 978-2-84123-633-6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - e-book).
  6. ↑ the subject: the “chocolatine” - Karambolage - ARTE, accessed on July 12, 2018 at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMRSrsKFa7c