Paris-Brest cake?
10-08-11, 11:37 AM
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Paris-Brest cake?
So I flip through the newest Cook's Illustrated (yes, I like baking and cooking. One reason I'm not 165lbs as I would like to be, but I digress) and find on page 19 a cake with cream filling called Paris-Brest.
Immediately my interest was peaked and I started to read the article around this delicious looking cake.
Here is an excerpt:
I gotta try to make this.
Does anyone else of the 1200 kilo riders, especially the PBP riders know about this cake? I've heard about this creation today for the first time. I find it pretty cool to have a cake named after a race.
Thomas
Immediately my interest was peaked and I started to read the article around this delicious looking cake.
Here is an excerpt:
Its quirky name dates back to 1910, when an enterprising baker whose shop was located along the route of the Paris-Brest-Paris bicycle race - a 1200km journey from Paris to the city of Brest, in Brittany, and back again - invented the dessert to honor the cyclists. His creation was in the shape of a bicycle tire, complete with a pastry "inner tube" - a recent invention at the time. Despite the irony of associating a calorie-laden, decadent confection with grueling feats of athleticism, Paris-Brest cake was an instant hit in France.
Does anyone else of the 1200 kilo riders, especially the PBP riders know about this cake? I've heard about this creation today for the first time. I find it pretty cool to have a cake named after a race.
Thomas
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10-08-11, 11:51 AM
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So? Where's the recipe? Pictures would be cool too.
10-08-11, 12:22 PM
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there was a picture and a mention in the RUSA newsletter this year sometime. I see no conflict at all between a calorie laden cake and a grueling 1200k ride. In fact, there were times when I was having trouble finding enough calories on PBP.
10-08-11, 03:55 PM
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Pattisseries are half the gastronomic fun of France and certainly of PBP. Oddly, I don't recall the PBP cake being a common offering even along the route. My former riding partner and fellow PBP ancien, Tim, encouraged his wife to bake the recipe... and very good it was, too.
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I was introduced to Paris-Brest the pastry at the post ride dinner hosted by Claus. Delicious; I highly recommend it as a recovery dessert.
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Pattisseries are half the gastronomic fun of France and certainly of PBP. Oddly, I don't recall the PBP cake being a common offering even along the route. My former riding partner and fellow PBP ancien, Tim, encouraged his wife to bake the recipe... and very good it was, too.
A club member in Manitoba, when I was a member of the Manitoba Randonneurs, made one for us before we all set off for the PBP in 2003 ... and that's where I was introduced to it.
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10-09-11, 04:36 AM
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Thanks for a great idea for cake at our autumn meeting coming up the week after next. Seems to (barely) be within my level of cakemaker competence.
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Pattisseries are half the gastronomic fun of France and certainly of PBP. Oddly, I don't recall the PBP cake being a common offering even along the route. My former riding partner and fellow PBP ancien, Tim, encouraged his wife to bake the recipe... and very good it was, too.
This is why I wouldn't bring Sustained Energy or Perpeteum on PBP
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Dang, I missed all the good places! I did have an awesome stuffed eggplant at one cafee though.
I did have an awesome stuffed eggplant at one cafee though.
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