Anne Willan

Dartois

Feuilleté with Pastry Cream

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6–8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

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French Regional Cooking

By Anne Willan

Published 1981

  • About

Some think this puff pastry was created in Artois; others that it was made up by a vaudeville artist named Dartois, who was born in Artois in 1788. In any case, the earliest mention of puff pastry, ‘gâteau feuilleté’, comes from the North in a charter granted by Bishop Robert of Amiens in 1311.

Ingredients

1 egg white, beaten until frothy

Method

Make the puff pastry* and chill for 1 hour or until firm. Make the pastry cream*, let it cool, and flavour it with rum.

Roll out the dough to a 25 × 35 cm/10 × 14 in rectangle. Trim the edges neatl