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bread that ate so much butter it became dessert in denial.
means A rich, soft French bread made with plenty of butter and eggs, giving it a tender, cake-like crumb and golden crust.
from From French brioche, attested by around the 15th century, most plausibly from the Norman verb brier, a regional form of broyer meaning 'to knead' or 'to pound the dough' — a nod to the muscle once needed to work all that butter in. The popular tale ties it to Marie Antoinette's supposed 'let them eat brioche' (mistranslated as 'cake'), but the word predates her by centuries, so that line is legend, not etymology.
- butter ratio
- Up to half the dough's weight is pure butter.
- royal myth
- Marie Antoinette's cake line likely meant brioche.
- egg rich
- Loaded with eggs for that golden, tender crumb.
- origin
- Norman bakers perfected it in 15th-century France.
- texture trick
- Cold butter folded slowly builds its pillowy layers.
for instance
brioche de nanterre — french pastry from nanterre with two connected round loaves, dating back to the 18th century