Made of puff or pate chou pastry - really 2 cream puffs, one sitting on top of the other and filled with flavored pastry cream.The Religieuse got it's name from it's violet-colored icing matching the cardinal's robes.
I had time, as I said I would , to track down and eat a religieuse from a boulangerie in Chalais near where we stayed in the Charente region of France. I think it was the boulangerie in the supermarket but who cares it tasted fab. As I eat the religieuse I remembered all over again why I like them. The choux pastry holds the rich and thick chocolate filling and then there is the chocolate icing on top as well as sandwiched in between the pastry with cream, just when you feel that your mouth can't hold any more chocolate. I made a cup of tea for everyone in the hot french sunshine, 30 degrees and we sat and eat the cakes. My brother said they really reminded him of holidays with our parents. We were partaking of a shared memory of a french patisserie, a full fat moment among other conversations we had about emptiness.
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1 comment:
0k i'm really jealous, you write about chocolate and u come up first on Goggle. Um unusual name me thinks tht does it.
Nottz x
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