Kifli

A croissant (plural crescents ) is an elongated, curved bakery product. You can of sweet dough ( mature crescents ) or brioche ( Briochekipferl ) are produced.

The crescents in its typical form derived supposedly from a local Baden master baker. The term Kipferl is common, especially in Bavaria and Austria, and is also used for seasonal biscuits as vanilla biscuits. In the southwest of Germany, the pastry top is called in other parts of Germany it is called a croissant. In Northern Germany Crescents are also known colloquially as Kandoren.

In Hungary, there are crescents under the name originating from the Austrian Kifli. Not to be confused is the Crescent with the likewise Austrian crescent roll, a pastry made ​​from yeast dough.

By Marie Antoinette, daughter of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, the crescent shape of crescents allegedly came to France. However, they were made ​​from yeast dough ( brioche ) and after the crescent shape of the waxing moon ( croissant de lune ) renamed. Only at the end of the 19th century came to today's croissant from flaky pastry in France.

Wrongly the Crescents the legend is attributed, it was created as a mockery of the unsuccessful second Turkish siege. The fact that the shape of the Kipferls stands with the Turkish crescent in the context, is not detectable. Rather, the croissant is mentioned in a document of the 12th century. Furthermore, it is demonstrated in the early 17th century in the context of a bakery in Mödling:

" Heunt has Hr Viechtl by the Feringer the market Hr judges and a Ehr ( seeds) Rath Erindern let (s), the reüttend Poth sent Ihro Maye ( places of par ) the Roman Kayserin already Etlich sacrament and heunt widerumb Mod Mödlinger Kipfl one out, one Kunte but nothing did (s), or sye syn zimblich black, wool so a Löbl. Magistrate then go (s), and the profess darzuo sustained (s ) so that the Mödlinger fame 'll get. "

The Roman Empress is Eleonore Magdalene of the Palatinate, the mother of Joseph I and Charles VI. meant.