Macarons

Macaron
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Not to be confused with Macron or Macaroon.

A macaron is a traditional French pastry from Nancy, a commune of the Meurthe et Moselle département, in northeastern France. Dating back to the 18th century, the macaron is made of egg whites, almond powder, icing sugar and sugar. This sweet pastry came out of the French courts' baker's oven as round meringue-like domes with a flat base.

In the early 1930 the tearoom and pastry-shop Ladurée in Paris started selling the new creation of Pierre Desfontaines, grandson of Louis Ernest Ladurée: two traditional dome halves sandwiched with a sweet filling between: the ganache. This resulted in giving the new macaron a larger size, the possibility of flavored garnishes, and a newfound moistness that came from the garnish. Whereas the traditional macaron was sweet and dry and crunchy, the new macaron had the added attraction of being delicately crunchy on the outside, while moist, chewy, and flavourful on the inside.

Many cookbooks provide macaron recipes, but the authentic Parisian macarons, with the multifarious flavors and colors, have continued to be in short supply, due to the difficulty in making them well. Today, there are but a few cities in which top quality macarons can be found.
These include London (Paul Boulangerie, Yauatcha, Ladurée), Melbourne (Laurent Bakery), Sydney (Lindt Concept Store and Cafe), Paris (Pierre Hermé, Ladurée, L'Atelier Joël Robuchon, Fauchon, Gérard Mulot, Jean-Paul Hévin, La Maison du Chocolat, Carette, Sadaharu Aoki), Madrid (Delipanific, Moulin Chocolat), Tokyo (Dalloyau, L'Atelier Joël Robuchon), Hong Kong (Le Goûter Bernardaud), Manila (Bizu Patisserie), New York (Fauchon, Bouchon Bakery, Payard, La Maison Du Chocolat),Waterloo near Brussels (Ducobu), Baltimore (Patisserie Poupon), and San Francisco (Patisserie Phillipe).

Flavors available can often vary with the seasons and include:
almond.apricot.blackcurrant.caramel.chocolate.cinnamon.coconut.coffee.hazelnutpraline.fig.foie gras.greentea.lemon.licorice.orange.pistachio.pepper.raspberry.rose.truffle.vanilla.violet.walnut

well, i think we all want to learn how to make this pretty lil thing, rite?

So, anyone who's got a good recipe for it, pls share with us k? better still, teach us!!!

afterall, we did tried to make dougnut (foodfad then), so why not macarons (foodfad now)? grins


~aunty dolly