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Croissantsby ~sasQuat-ch

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“It’s the summer of 1683 and the city of Vienna is under seige. The Ottoman Empire has asked that the Hapsburg city to surrender, and the leaders have told the Turks to (and I’m paraphrasing here) “take a long leap off a short pier”. The siege of Vienna was under way.

One of the many ideas that the Turks had to infiltrate the city was to dig tunnels beneath the city and their walls, set off explosions within the tunnels; which would in turn destroy said walls and allow the Turks to enter. It was a good idea, except for one variable that they could not have expected - a baker by the name of Peter Wender.

Mr. Wender was working in the basement of his bakery during the seige when he heard an unexplained sound coming from one of his walls. He alerted the city army and went to investigate and lo and behold, discovered the Turks and foiled their plan.

The baker, for his part, decided to advertise his part in preventing the invading army from…well…invading, and created a pastry in the shape of a crescent, which happened to be the symbol of the Ottoman empire.

After the Turks were ousted (with a fair amount of help from the Polish army), it became custom to serve morning coffee with Wender’s pastry. A tradition was born.

A century later, a Viennese princess by the name of Marie Antoinette married the French King Louis XVI. She insisted that the bakers in Paris learn how to make the treat. Over the years, the french bakers added butter and yeast to the mix, and the Croissant (meaning ‘crescent’) was born.”

The story is probably untrue, but it sure is a great one.

As usual, recipe and step-by-step can be found here:
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~Lone-Garou Mar 9, 2011

I have to stop by your place for a meal, next time I travel through...um...Malaysia?

~sasQuat-ch Mar 10, 2011 Student Photographer

Malaysia's 4° 0' 0" N / 102° 0' 0" E, I'm in 5° 0' 0" S / 120° 0' 0" E

~Lone-Garou Mar 10, 2011

I gotta pin that on my world map!

=cosmicspider Feb 21, 2011

That looks sooo delicious!

*drrocket Feb 20, 2011

Forget the Croissant, I want the egg

~sasQuat-ch Feb 20, 2011 Student Photographer

I figured you'd say that. You're not getting it

I used to play this ([link]) song to the kids when I volunteered at a primary school here.Very cute.

*drrocket Feb 20, 2011

Aw... :sad:

LOLOL!! I love eggs, scrambled, fried, poached (not so much), had or soft boiled - YUM!

~LMPPhoto Feb 20, 2011 Hobbyist Photographer

hey, that story is very commonly told around here. it is true

maybe ^__^ looks very tasty

~sasQuat-ch Feb 20, 2011 Student Photographer

is it??

the story sounds pretty good to me

Thanks!

~LMPPhoto Feb 20, 2011 Hobbyist Photographer

well, every child here knows it. but actually it is told that all the people who where working in the bakerys noticed it (because they had to work so early), not just one

so I think there is a true part

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