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a thousand layers of pastry engineered to shatter the second you look at it
means A French pastry made of thin layers of puff pastry alternating with cream or custard, also called a Napoleon.
from Straight from French: mille ("thousand") + feuille ("leaf" or "sheet"), so literally "a thousand leaves" — a poetic count of the paper-thin layers of puff pastry stacked within. Mille traces back to Latin mille (a thousand, the same root behind "mile" and "million"), and feuille comes from Latin folium, a leaf — a cousin of "foliage" and "portfolio." The pastry itself is far older than its tidy name; the "thousand" was always playful exaggeration rather than an actual count.
- name lie
- Means thousand sheets but has only 729
- layer math
- Three pastry sheets, each folded into 243 leaves
- alias
- Brits call it the Napoleon, no Bonaparte link
- eating problem
- No dignified way to bite it cleanly
- butter count
- Built from dozens of folded butter layers
bouchon lyonnais millefeuille — layered puff pastry dessert served in traditional lyonnais restaurants in france since the 19th century