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Conquer the Kitchen: Puff the Magic Pastry *

Learn how to avoid the common mistakes that take the puff out of your pastry.

Just like that childhood song that is now playing in your head, puff pastry is an enduring classic.

• Puff (the dragon):  Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul and Mary fame) was inspired by a poem his roommate Leonard Lipton wrote in 1959.  He set the poem to music and the song is still recognized worldwide.  Lipton wrote the poem after being inspired by a poem by Ogden Nash called The Tale of Custard the Dragon.
• Puff (the pastry):  Developed by French pastry apprentice, Claudius Gelée in 1645.  He accidentally created the dough when cooking for his sick father, who was on a diet of flour, butter and water.  Gelée added butter to the dough and folded it several times.  Expecting a failure, instead he invented the basis for the still famous puff pastry.

Puff (the pastry and the song) both have a delicate quality and a way of really sticking with (or to) you.  Join the FPL Kitchen Crew to explore this airy pastry that adds elegance to both sweet and savory recipes.

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