For the past few months, and maybe longer, I've been eating a croissant every morning with my daily cup of tea. I started doing so because I realized one day that even though I've been living in France for more than 20 years now, I was probably eating no more than half a dozen croissants a year. By the way, croissant is the French word for crescent. It's also the present participle of the verb croître, to grow, and means "growing."
I put skimmed milk and sugar in my tea in the morning, but I eat my croissants plain. I admit to buying them, more often than not, at the supermarket. They are baked in the store every morning, so they are fresh. And they are made with butter, not margarine. Butter, flour, a pinch of salt, and a little bit of sugar; those are the ingredients. The croissants I get from the supermarket weigh about 52 grams each. That's less than two ounces.
You-know-who... that would be Tasha the Sheltie... loves croissants as much as I do. I share mine with her. I'm not sure I knew that, at least according to legend, Marie-Antoinette brought the croissant, along with the recipe, to France from Austria in about 1770. Living here, it's a shame not to enjoy one every day. For a special treat, when I'm out and about early enough, I buy a few croissants in one of the half-dozen or so bakeries in the Saint-Aignan area that bake and sell them, just to see how good they really are compared to my everyday croissants.
This is a lovely treat for us at Sunday breakfast; all butter croissants from ‘Waitrose’ which are as tasty as from a bakery 14 miles away. We have groceries delivered to the farm weekly from there. It’s a 50 mile return trip journey to our farm otherwise, and they charge only £4 for delivery, which is more than made up for by weekly loyalty offers. Lots of field home grown root veg.too. Pats. 🚜
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