Pastry Essays

Laure (the person I interviewed) said that French bakers mainly focus on taste, because it has to be perfect, before focusing on anything else like presentation. So I guess you could say that French bakers just have much higher standards, and their pastries are more intricate and complex. That was the main question I haVe been wondering about, and I am glad to finally have answered

Have you ever thought about how the story of a pie is similar to the story of a person? In the poem “Perfect for any Occasion,” Alberto Ríos explores the idea that there are fortunate and unfortunate people in the world using an extended metaphor of good pies and bad pies. The fortunate people don 't need to work hard for luxuries and attention. However, there are the unfortunate people who had to put up a fight for what the fortunate people have, but no fortune or attention ever came of it. In his

Some of you in here babysit younger siblings or other small children. After you have them play outside and they are hot and sweaty, it feels good to bring them back in the house and cool them off with a big glass of Kool-Aid. After they have their Kool-Aid and are cooled off, you really don’t want to go bring them back outside where it is hot, so you decide to play with play dough. But you don’t have any playdough in the house. What do you do? You can make your own using the same Kool-Aid that

INTRODUCTION The product offered by Flips are Pancake, Crepes, and Waffle which is made of Pancake mix. Pancake mix is made of flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Make a well in the center and pour in the milk, egg and melted butter; mix until smooth. Different varieties of flavors are offered for customer’s satisfaction. PANCAKE The word pancakes appears in print as early as 1430. Pancakes may have been around since Neolithic humans domesticated einkorn wheat, ground it into flour mixed with

It’s the day before Thanksgiving. Your mother is rushing around the kitchen trying to get it all done. As she puts the turkey in the fridge to thaw she looks at you and asks if you will make the pie. You smile and say, "Yes, I will". First you have to get the recipe from your mom's recipe box. The recipe has been in your family since your mom's great, great grandparents came over to America from Holland. Next grab the ingredients on the list, and run over to the store if you don’t have something

Crumpled Cookies Fall is here, that means baking season has arrived like a present delivered to your door. Baking to me is like painting a picture. Mixing a group of colors together to create one big piece of art. I love the final masterpiece that I get to enjoy with my family and friends. I like to consider myself as a good baker. Not necessarily advanced, but good. Well, it wasn’t always that way. Since it was the weekend, and my family was out for a while at my brother’s baseball

Nothing is better than a freshly baked batch of chocolate chip cookies. They’re a delicious enjoyable dessert that everyone knows and loves. It’s hard to go wrong with these. Wouldn’t it be great if someone taught you how to make a perfect batch? Well that’s what I’m going to do. Chocolate chip cookies are easy to make, enjoyable, and a good tasty treat for all. In order to start your baking process, you must make sure that you have the correct ingredients. There are many different ways to make

Holling Hoodhood in the beginning starts as a regular kid entering the seventh grade with a teacher that he think hates his guts. Holling is a presbyterian so he stays with Mrs. Baker for a while since he doesn’t go to the church's other kids go to and for this reason Mrs. Baker “Hated” him. Soon you start seeing Holling’s family neglect him and it shows how Holling has to take care of himself. Also you see Holling’s love of books when he talks about the books he reads. You then start seeing Hollings

Chocolate chip cookies are a drop cookie invented by Ruth Graves in 1938. They were made in the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts. They are made with nine different ingredients. (Butter, brown sugar, sugar, eggs, pure vanilla extract, chocolate chips, all-purpose flour, baking soda, and salt). There are many different things I can do to the cookie to make sure they come out the way I like them. The first thing I did was take out all of the ingredients and tools I will need. I mixed half cup

We propose Arcadia Cafe should bring samples of their pour over coffee and homemade pastries on to Iowa State’s campus in the free-speech zone, aka Agora, so that students can be made aware that Aracida exists. Arcadia wants to bring in more college aged students and emerging young professionals. A majority of their customers now are ladies getting lunch, church groups and other middle aged to older people. In order for customers to become regulars at Arcadia, they need to start going during their

In this part of the research, I will choose the best survey method in my opinion that is appropriate for Dunkin’ Donuts to determine consumers’ response to the new line of pastries with a distinctive French taste before introducing them in the marketplace. Also, I will discuss the advantages beyond using this method not others. Actually, there are four widely used data collection methods in quantitative surveys; in-depth personal interview, telephone interview, mail survey, online survey and observation

As a non-lover of pastries, surprisingly, I was interested in reading Gateaux Algeriens, A Love Affair to find out what knowledge could I gain from this. A food writer named Rachel Finn began her journey when she first moved to Paris. While reading the first paragraph on page 78, I related to Finn immediately. My husband, unfortunately, has what some would call a “sweet tooth”, and he is constantly searching for the perfect pastry. It’s as if she took a scene out of my life and wrote in on paper

Employability skills targets The employability skills target is to import, my skills by understand my strength and weaknesses. Above shows a list of strength and weakness that I have experiences over time. One of my strengths are team work the reason is, I like working with a team because I like to learn from others. My target is to work with people that I will not usually work with. This gives me a chance to get out of my comfort zone and learn from others. One of my strengths is that I can

2008_11_10-Entry-Pie.jpg Pin it button big Martha's Apple Pie Makes 1 double-crust pie Pie pastry 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small pieces 1/4 to 1/2 cup ice water (essential that the water is cold) Filling 2 tablespoons all-purpose

“Cake Boss”, a long-time reality cooking program that I've been watching since seventh grade, I was hooked on becoming a pastry chef like Buddy Valastro. He has been my inspiration and my role model because I was intrigued by the beautiful sculptures he made. The idea that Buddy Valastro is able to blend ingredients and transform them into amazing, often breathtaking pastries that are delicious and alluring, is the kind of passion I want to feel in a career. After graduating college I see myself

Elastic demand (Ped >1) is when the demand is greater than the change in price, the demand on the change in coffee or pastry is said to be elastic, when coffee is elastic on the supply and demand curve then there will be a massive change in the demand for an item. When the calculation is calculated then the answer should reveal the products elasticity, if the answer is

The competitive dimensions that benefit Buckeye Brownies the most are superior product quality and reliability. Buckeye Brownies started their business off of the idea that there were no other dessert options offered premium desserts within range of students on campus. The company valued itself on premium ingredients to make the best tasting brownie, freshly produced. Being able to deliver a fresh out of the oven brownie was something almost no other company could replicate. These two competitive

female students to go into baking and pastry arts if any of us decided to pursue a career in the food industry. Their reasoning for doing so was that culinary is a much more stressful and physically demanding field, implying that it is more suitable for men, while baking and pastry arts requires more precision and meticulous work. While this seems innocent enough, I would have run into a problem had I followed their suggestion due to the fact that baking and pastry receives much less prestige and promotional

The Great Gatsby, the third published book by famous 1920’s author F. Scott Fitzgerald, Effectively tells us a story while also giving the reader a look into the author's life though the calculated use of certain types of figurative languages. In chapter 3 of the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes polysyndeton and alliteration to illustrate the luxury and attitude of Jay Gatsby’s parties. Larger parties require a larger cleanup, and that's very true in jays case he required a whole crew

toaster pastry, was Kellogg’s. Back then, they were called “fruit scones.” In today’s time, they are now called “Pop-Tarts.” According to Andrew F.Smith, the author of Fast Food and Junk Food; estimates that the Kellogg company sells more than 2 billion pop-tarts annually. Since Great Value is a generic brand, their version are called: “Breakfast Pastries.” To compare financially, a typical box of 16 pop-tarts usually are priced around $3.50. However, a box of 16 great value breakfast pastries are around