Brioche

The brioche [ bʀijɔʃ ], in German sometimes referred to as the "Apostle cake ", is a fine panel pastries from egg -and fat -rich yeast dough, which consists of two or three different sizes and pyramidal stacked dough balls. In Austria brioche called a white cakes with different sizes and shapes, which is coated with egg and sprinkle with coarse sugar.

Originally, the pastries from France. Characteristic of the brioche is now on top of the most ribbed collar and smooth round Teigkopf. This shape is typical Parisian only since the 19th century. In France there is also filled brioches. It is also known among other regional variants, the brioche Vendéenne from the Vendée, which is flavored with rum, brandy or orange blossoms. Previously, these were a special variant for Easter.

History

The word brioche is occupied in France since the 15th century. It is probably derived from brier, a dialect form of Broyer, which actually means something like crush or mash, but can also stand for rolling out the dough with a rolling pin.

As a likely place of origin is considered to Normandy, which was known for its quality of butter since the Middle Ages, an essential ingredient of brioche. But brioches are detected only since the 17th century in Paris. The oldest surviving recipe appeared in 1742.

Legend

According to popular legend, the French princess Marie Antoinette after she was reported to the poor of the population were to eat no bread, replied: "If they have no bread, let them eat brioche " ( " S'ils n ' ont plus de pain, qu'ils mangent de la brioche "). In fact, this phrase comes from the autobiographical "Confessions " by Jean -Jacques Rousseau, where he is placed an unnamed " great princess " in the mouth:

" Enfin je me rappelai le pis -aller d'une grande princesse à qui l' on disait que les paysans n'avaient pas de pain, et qui répondit. Qu'ils mangent de la brioche "

In the German translation of Hermann Denhardt (1882 ):

"Finally I remembered the information by means of a great princess who was told that peasants had no bread, and who responded. " They can even eat cake " "

The context is that Rousseau had stolen wine and wanted to eat something, but there was too finely dressed to buy simple bread. Whether Rousseau reflect an actual manifestation of a nobleman here or not, he can at least not Marie Antoinette have meant, because even if the "Confessions " were first published posthumously from 1782, he had already 1765-1767 written the first six books, as Marie Antoinette was a child and lived in Vienna. In addition to the relevant chapter of 11 events act, which took place before 1741. The common translation of brioche with "cake" in this quote is historically incorrect because the pastry in the 18th century contained little butter and sugar and thus was more like a kind of white bread.

Switzerland

The term is sometimes used in Switzerland for an aperitif biscuits, which consists of a baked bread light (20 to 30 cm high, round floor area of ​​approximately 20 cm in diameter), which cut into several horizontal layers and then with salmon, Spreading pate, ham, etc. is filled. The taste afterwards corresponds approximately to an occupied, ungetoasteten toast, but a little butter and a little sweeter with a slightly smoother consistency.