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Where do the petit fours come from?

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Where do the petit fours come from?
The large cakes are baked in a "big oven", that is to say in a very hot oven. Once the cooking is finished, we do not waste the remaining heat!
A real profession in its own right. Pastry chefs take advantage of the lower temperature to bake small sweets. During the reign of Louis XVI, “petit four” pastries are so fashionable that their manufacture gave rise to a new profession, the “petits-fourniers”.
It was described in 1825 by the gastronome Brillat-Savarin, in Physiologie du Goût, as “the nuance between the pastry chefs themselves, and the confectioners. »
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