Official Recognition of Pastry Making As a Profession
Pastry making was already a highly developed art when
Charles IX established the first pastry maker’s guild in 1566. At the same
time, a system of apprenticeship and a means of testing expertise through
examinations were implemented; these tests included the preparation of an
elaborate work.
This period also marked the arrival of the first ice creams,
pate a choux and ‘pithiviers’. The biscuit, a type of sponge cake, played an
important role in sea exploration because it kept well, providing weeks of
nourishment for the crews.
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