Quoting Dale Shipp to Ruth Haffly <=-

Puff pastry is not quite right
I could not find a recipe for cresent roll dough.

I have several and will send a few.

Cresent rolls were invented in Venice to celbrate repelling the
Turks and are know as Vienna pastries or Viennoiserie.

To start things off here's an interesting article I came across
yesterday while Googling "Viennoiserie".

Brioche dough vs Croissant dough by MISS PIRISI

A popular viennoiserie can be made with either brioche dough (sweet
bread) or croissant dough (flaky puff pastry). Take your pick.

Brioche dough is made of: Flour T45, Yeast, Salt, Granulated sugar,
Eggs, softened butter and some water.

Chef starts adding in a Kitchen Aid (using hook attachment) flour,
yeast, salt, sugar and add eggs gradually. Adding a little bit of
water to pick up the dry ingredients. It takes around 15-20 mins or
until the dough is not sticking to the side of the bowl. Then, add
the softened butter little by little gently kneading but not
excessively. Your dough is done once butter is mixed in and you
should here the dough making a slapping sound against the bowl. It's
ready!

Place the dough in a prover. If you don't have a prover you just
need to create a warm environment for the dough to rise. You can for
example put plastic over the dough with air surrounding it.

When the dough has risen, punch it down ("rompre" or "rabattre" in
French) and put in the fridge for at least 12 hours.
Punch it down again a second time, shape and rise at 30 C.
Baking 220 C for around 5 minute and then turn down to 180 C to
finish

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Note: In a recipe similar to this one you may see instructions to
make a "yeast starter" or in French a "poolish" this is mixing the
yeast with a little water and a little flour from the recipe.

Croissant dough or in French it's called either, Pate a croissants
or Pate levee feuilletee, this is made of: Flour (farine) sifted
type T45 and type T55, Salt (sel), Sugar (sucre), Yeast (levure),
Milk (lait)

Pate a lever feuillettee translates to dough rising pastry sheets,
the rising is due to the yeast.

Knead a detrempe with the sifted flour, salt, sugar, yeast and add
milk gradually**.

** Sift together flour and salt then make a well. Add the sugar in
the well. Now add milk. You can add a tiny part warm water to your
yeast before adding to the well. Warning: Do not mix the salt and
the yeast together because the salt kills the yeast.

Stop kneading once the dough is homogenous and give body to the
dough - measure temperature 23 C - 25 C. Let the dough rise in a
temperature environment. Once the dough has risen, punch it down and
keep it in the fridge for use the next day. Add the butter as in the feuilletage procedure. Give one double turn and one simple turn. Let
the pƒton rest in the fridge for half hour, taking care to cover it
with plastic film. Roll out the dough (60cm x 40cm) and cut to
size/shape. Place the croissants on a baking sheet and egg wash a
first time. Let croissants rise about two hours in a prover at 25 C.
Egg wash a second time and bake at 220 C.

These instructions are taken from the cookbook Pastry Recipes
Anglophone Patisserie created by Ferrandi Chef Averty.


Cheers

Jim



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