Religieuses

Nearly every Sunday after Mass, my family would stop at the pastry shop on the way home so that we could each choose our dessert for lunch. Without fail, my dad’s was a millefeuille; a ‘religieuse’ was mine. A classic French pâtisserie made up of two different-sized choux buns, a religieuse is said to look like a nun in habit, hence the name, which means ‘nun’, but the basic concept is the same as that of profiteroles or éclairs. A religieuse is simply a daintier, more refined proposition –