Puff Pastry: The Favorite School Snack

Puff pastry is a type of dough that engages all your senses. Its taste, aroma, appearance, and the sound of the fresh layers breaking at the touch all become part of each of our personal stories.

But puff pastry has its own history, beginning in 1645 in France with Claudius Gele, an apprentice cook/pastry chef. In an effort to create an improved version of bread for his father, who followed a specific diet, he added butter to the dough. He then folded the dough several times before shaping it into a loaf.

Despite being warned by the head chef not to bake it, as the butter would run out, the apprentice baked it anyway—creating, to his surprise, the puff pastry we know today.

Even today, puff pastry remains one of the most loved forms of dough. From our earliest school days, puff pastry has been closely associated with the school snack, whether as a breakfast or mid-morning treat.

This is due to its high energy content, as well as its richness in minerals and vitamins such as iron, vitamins K & B, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, and more.

Puff pastry is also the perfect base for creating small, bite-sized snacks that children can enjoy at school, parents can offer to their kids, and bakeries can provide to any customer.

• Sausage rolls
• Vegetarian pies with cheese and roasted vegetables
• Gluten-free sweet and savory pies
• Cheese breadsticks
• Meat pies
• Egg and bacon nests
• And of course, traditional cheese and spinach pies

All made with carefully selected, high-quality ingredients and Puff Pastry Flour from Loulis Mills.

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