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cohphanta
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Chig de vieille femme
I have been looking for a recipe for a type of pastry sold back home. I've never seen anything like it anywhere. They are called "chic de femme" or Chig de vieille femme". They are a yellow sweet dough roll similar but not exactly like a cinnamon bun. Anyone ever see anything like this?
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#2 Sun 06 Jan 13 6:35am
mummza
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Re: Chig de vieille femme
Could they be saffron buns ?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&am … 6YCIBA#p=0
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#3 Sun 06 Jan 13 7:33am
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#4 Sun 06 Jan 13 3:09pm
cohphanta
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Re: Chig de vieille femme
mummza wrote:
http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20081214/ARTICLES/812149955?p=1&tc=pg
Ya, that's them..but I can't find a recipe anywhere.....
and that's my home town Mummza!
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#5 Sun 06 Jan 13 3:19pm
mummza
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Re: Chig de vieille femme
well I never !
I will try to look at come of my french recipe cook books but it will have to wait untill all the christmas decorations are down .
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#6 Sun 06 Jan 13 7:14pm
Kye
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Re: Chig de vieille femme
Hi Coconut i've found other names for them..Chignons, yellow rolls, chick rolls. I have found one really looks like them..
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/something- … cipe%20Hub
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#7 Sun 06 Jan 13 7:21pm
mummza
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Re: Chig de vieille femme
after a good search I ca find no recipe for these , I am wondering if it is something that onle that baker does as a speciality .
Are they a sweetened enriched Brioche bread with some saffron water added for the colour and flavour ?
No idea what is rolled into them or what has been brushed over then .
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#8 Sun 06 Jan 13 7:45pm
cohphanta
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Re: Chig de vieille femme
They sell them at a few bakeries in Houma. It could that it's only found there. I've never seen them anywhere else, even in New Orleans, just a few miles away. The texture as I remember it is almost like a brioche but not quiet. Next time I go home...maybe I can coax a bakery to give me a hint to the basic ingredients. They use the same dough to make another pastry called a "shoe sole".
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#9 Sun 06 Jan 13 7:46pm
cohphanta
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Re: Chig de vieille femme
Kye wrote:
Hi Coconut i've found other names for them..Chignons, yellow rolls, chick rolls. I have found one really looks like them..
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/something- … cipe%20Hub
I may give this a go and see what happens.
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#10 Sun 06 Jan 13 8:10pm
MsPablo
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Re: Chig de vieille femme
I found a facebook page where this same question was asked, but none of the answers gave a recipe, save one and that was a link to King Arthur Flour's brioche recipe.
Last edited by MsPablo (Sun 06 Jan 13 8:19pm)
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