Flaky Pastry | The French Chef Season 8 | Julia Child

[@paulaarrigoni7543]

She’s a cooking icon! I watched as a youngster and became a pretty good cook! Lol

[@Exiled.New.Yorker]

Best explanation of laminated dough ever. I understood and replicated it at eight.

[@leclercsyl]

I love French cuisine. Sometimes very simple, sometimes more complicated: it's full of little details and you can't be in a hurry or skip steps. I wish I'd known Julian Child much earlier, in the days before the Internet. We had a bit of the equivalent in Quebec with Jehane Benoit, very classic and very old-fashioned where the wife prepares a good meal for her husband. But there's something about Julia Child, there's this desire to make French cuisine accessible to Americans (I include Canadians) sometimes with disarming casualness, sometimes so funny when she gets rid of what's no longer necessary. Still very relevant! Of course, you have to love to cook.

[@michaelcornett444]

Holid Sunk! I want that on a t-shirt.

[@nancyscogin7549]

She makes me think I could actually make puff pastry.😀

[@lennypearl]

I LOVE the explanation of the rolling and folding with the felt!

[@jennilynmae]

Bravo!

[@jaynehildebrand2465]

Love watching Julia! I’ve watched her cook since I was in my teens (I’m in my early seventies now). One thing puzzles me about this dish: I’ve listened to her list the ingredients for the creamy ham filling twice, but I cannot understand what gives it that greenish cast. Is it simply the age of the video that causes it to look green somehow?

[@firstnamenlastname]

❤️

[@Scottwilkie18]

Beating butter

[@kathleenleach190]

Genius! "...the gluten becomes enraged".

[@Justcanadianjanjan]

Jamie Oliver always told us to BUY puff Pastry because it’s such a time consuming chore and we should Focus more on the filling… he isn’t wrong when your want to eat today … we eat nothing but butter in our home .. never margarine ( because that’s one molecule Away from Plastic) poor Julia would be spinning in her grave if she thought any of us ate margarine. But I get it that since Covid and the rise of food costs that many can’t afford to make puff pastry .. the butter you do have should be for buttering toast and sandwiches .. I think you all know what I mean. Having said that… watching her make puff pastry is a delight and I don’t want to be a Debbie downer. We love you Julia!!! 💗 🧑‍🍳

[@baritonebynight]

I make it myself....I've had the store bought ...the kind that contains no butter is unsuitable for eating...the kind that contains better is never as good as the kind your make yourself. Once you have your technique down, its not that difficult.

[@getoffmydarnlawn]

you don't see an entire half hour show devoted to teaching just one thing anymore --- heck, with commercials the shows are only about 20 or so minutes now --- this is true, old school educational television, similar to what Food Network started out to be as a fledgling channel

[@baritonebynight]

Yes...part of the dumbing down of America.....people like Rachel Ray and Sandree Lee are not going to show you this...just do the same thing over and over again...they can't teach technique because they don't have any.