Danish Pastry

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    24

    pastries
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Scandinavian Classic Baking

By Pat Sinclair

Published 2011

  • About

In Denmark, these pastries are called “Weinerbrod” or Vienna bread. About 100 years ago when the bakers in Copenhagen went on strike for better wages, Austrian and German bakers were brought to Denmark to replace them. Their Viennese method of folding butter into pastry dough forming many layers was adopted and improved by the Danish bakers when they returned and Danish pastry is now famous throughout the world.