Learning to become a pastry chef

Learning to become a pastry chef








Felicia Clark
Senior Project Research Paper
Fall 2002
English 12 Period 1
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Learning To Become a Pastry Chef
Imagine a three layer chocolate wedding cake, with flowing white frosting and a strawberry center. These are just some of the many beautiful creations Pastry Chefs make every day. But not everything is as sweet as what they make in this career. The eighteenth century Pastry Chefs were very different from the Pastry Chefs of today.
In the eighteenth century, a new type of baker was coming up in the world. In fact there were many famous pastry chefs in this era. For example, “Edward Kiddler was a well known pastry-master of eighteenth century London” (“Restaurateurs and Innkeepers”). Many chefs now refer back to Edward. He opened a school, and even wrote a book of recipes for up coming pastry chefs. The name of the pastry chef all came from the common Baker. For instance, “ Confectioners deri...