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the pastry that needs only two ingredients and the gall to call itself an elephant ear
means A crisp, flat French pastry made from sugar-coated puff dough rolled in from both sides and sliced, baking into a caramelized heart- or ear-shaped cookie.
from From French palmier, literally "palm tree," named for the pastry's resemblance to a fanned-out palm leaf. The same shape inspired other nicknames around the world — "elephant ear," "palm leaf," even "butterfly" — but the French name simply saw a little tree in the dough.
- french origins
- Born in early 1900s Parisian patisseries
- two ingredients
- Just puff pastry and sugar, nothing more
- many names
- Called elephant ears, palm leaves, and pig ears
- caramel trick
- Sugar caramelizes in the oven, not before
- the fold
- Two rolls meet to form its heart shape