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Croissant Museum

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Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Croissant Museum
Phone:
+48 690 077 800

Address:
Klasztorna Street 23, Poznan 61-772, Poland

A croissant is a buttery, flaky, viennoiserie pastry named for its historical crescent shape. Croissants and other viennoiserie are made of a layered yeast-leavened dough. The dough is layered with butter, rolled and folded several times in succession, then rolled into a sheet, in a technique called laminating. The process results in a layered, flaky texture, similar to a puff pastry. Crescent-shaped breads have been made since the Renaissance, and crescent-shaped cakes possibly since antiquity. Croissants have long been a staple of Austrian and French bakeries and pâtisseries. In the late 1970s, the development of factory-made, frozen, pre-formed but unbaked dough made them into a fast food which can be freshly baked by unskilled labor. The croissanterie was explicitly a French response to American-style fast food, and as of 2008 30–40% of the croissants sold in French bakeries and patisseries were baked from frozen dough.Croissants are a common part of a continental breakfast in France. They are now more often found in straight than curved shape.
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