Croissant/pain au chocolat/pain aux raisins? (1 Viewer)

[Minxy]

Je regret! Je N’ anime croissants - too fatty and too early ( dont eat breakfast) but can eat baguette butter and cheese every day when in France . Have been found wandering in withdrawal trance when back in Blighty , muttering to self ‘ from age ... du pain ‘ in a heartbroken way

Have to admit I don't like them either, like eating flaky cardboard at times whereas a nice fresh baguette eaten 'naked' is great, but with butter ... absolute bliss!

I know where my love of bread comes from ... as a kid when on my way home from primary school my mum always bought me a little bread bap to keep me going until dinner time which was usually around 7.00 pm when my Dad got in.

If I was lucky I occasionally got a lemon curd tart.

 

[sedge]

Plain for me, I like chocolate but hate anything chocolate flavored.

No, a proper pain au chocolate has two tubes of softened actual chocolate along its interior. My answer's a proper bakery pain au raisin as long as it has enough egg custard to keep it properly moist. If we only have a supermarket which isn't Lidl's to get freshly baked ones - probably apple turnovers are the best choice.

Mind you - you can go a long way before you can beat a slice of brioche tranche toasted, with marmalade - don't need to butter it , and it browns pdq, if you don't eat the rest of the packet of brioche - get the marmalade out again, make marmalade sandwiches, arrange decoratively in your pie dish/casserole. baking tin and beat up some eggs and a drop of milk, chuck in the oven and enjoy the resultant marmalade pudding. Don't need any sugar in the custard, sweet enough from the brioche and marmelade.

 

[Potty]

plain croissants with a touch of honey unless they have a sweet glaze

Even better with goats cheese!

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[Pappy]

Croissant aux amandes. We would go to France just for these.

 

[Scotch mist]

Personally I don’t mind as long as I’m in France when I’m eating it

 

[Lenny HB]

Last week a new deli opened just round the corner from us run by a family on the estate. Their pastries & croissants are as good as French ones. Our daughter keeps going in there and coming down to our house with a bag of them, loving it, well my wallet is.

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[carolyn]

Almond croissant for me although I love them all. Damn you. I am trying to be good. Darling daughter has just gone back to Bangladesh after our early “Christmas” so we have been eating all sorts of treats, that tuna salad for lunch did nothing and the bowl of fruit is no longer very appealing!

 

[nicholsong]

Croissant for me. Slightly crispy outer with a soft buttery inner is best.

That said, Croissant Amande wins for me every time.

My OH is a Croissant Amande officiado too, but we only seem to find them in E. France.

I like the crispy croissant with soft centre made with lots of butter.

Geoff

 

[mitzimad]

aux rasin everytime crisp top and soggy bottom mmmmmmmm

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[Googlebot]

My OH is a Croissant Amande officiado too, but we only seem to find them in E. France.

I like the crispy croissant with soft centre made with lots of butter.

Geoff

They have them in the Alps around the Briancon area. Bizarrely, they are all different too. Some are light and fluffy, others heavy and sweet depending on the bakery. Best bet is to try them all.

 

[Pete5996]

......if you don't eat the rest of the packet of brioche - get the marmalade out again, make marmalade sandwiches, arrange decoratively in your pie dish/casserole. baking tin and beat up some eggs and a drop of milk, chuck in the oven and enjoy the resultant marmalade pudding. Don't need any sugar in the custard, sweet enough from the brioche and marmelade.

I often make a baguette bread and butter pudding but I'm gonna nick that idea, ta!

 

[orridge]

Almond Croissants for sure.

We have a local bakery to us in East Sussex https://thesussexkitchen.com/ and they make the most amazing Almond Croissant as good if not better than ones we had in France.

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[Jim]

Bookers do a range of French, made in France, frozen breakfast pastries, seriously good

 

[WillinFrance]

Nothing better than going to the local Boulangerie on Sunday morning and getting warm croissants and bread, always a good choice of different breads including the baguette.
Nothing on the croissants, but just butter on the warm bread. Heavenly...
Sunday is reserved for croissants and bread in the morning and a sweet pastry in the afternoon...

 

[John Barrett]

I'm about to heat the Sainsbury's butter croissants in my new air fryer...

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[Lenny HB]

I'm about to heat the Sainsbury's butter croissants in my new air fryer...

Are you battering them first?

 

[John Barrett]

Are you battering them first?

I will if they don't behave themselves!

 

[LesW]

A thing that surprised (and pleased) me was that French bakers will cut and sell you half a baguette.

Couldn't imagine that in England.

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[Wee Bold Davy]

I can hardly wait for our first trip to France! On leaving school I started work as an apprentice baker at Patersons Bakery in Kirkintilloch. I learned my trade from probably two of the best in the business, one of whom was 84 (and still working 6 hours a day) and the foreman who was 55 when I started. Both had been bakers since leaving school. The quality of their work was fantastic. The variety of the bread wasn't great (don't think it was anywhere in the '70s) but their Danish pastries were to die for. Ever since then I've always made a bee-line for bakers shops whenever I go anywhere to sample their quality, but I've yet to sample a range which comes anywhere near the quality.
It had been a family business for over 100 years and alas it folded about 4 years after the owner passed away as the son had no interest in the business.
Looking back I could have started a business with the skills and knowledge I gained in the almost 10 years I worked there. I often wonder if any of that knowledge was passed on to the next generation

 

[John Barrett]

We now air fry ALDI frozen butter croissants: 15 minutes at 180 C and they are delicious.
No need to go out at all now!

 

[Langtoftlad]

Sometimes, it's just the location.

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[Grianan]

Pain aux raisins ... oh I do hope we can get to France next year

 

[denisejoe]

Pain aux raisins ... oh I do hope we can get to France next year

Absolutely agree - about getting to France next year, not he pain aux raisins! Got to be almond croissants for both of us!

 

[Simon Select]

I love them all which is probably why I am now a diabetic! Pan au raisin is the one though!!

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[denisejoe]

Absolutely agree - about getting to France next year, not he pain aux raisins! Got to be almond croissants for both of us!

That’s Denise I’ll eat them all