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<\/p>\nBreak open the deeply browned crust, and a soft center rich in milk and eggs appears. The canel\u00e9 of Bordeaux is a pastry made by pouring a single liquid batter into small fluted molds and baking it so that the outside and the center take on different textures. The batter is scented with rum and vanilla, and molds that conduct heat well dry out the exterior. The contrast between the crust and the interior comes from the difference in how the outer part touching the mold and the center are heated.<\/p>\n
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Canel\u00e9s baked in fluted molds (2007, location unknown). Photo: Peek-poke<\/a> \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a> \/ CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The milk is warmed with a split vanilla pod to infuse its aroma, and the butter is melted. Flour is mixed into the eggs, egg yolks and sugar, and the milk is added little by little to make a smooth liquid batter. Some recettes (recipes, meaning the proportions of ingredients and the method) use both whole eggs and egg yolks, so the batter is not necessarily made only from leftover yolks.<\/p>\n Once rum has been added, the batter is commonly rested in the refrigerator rather than baked right away. For example, one recipe uses 125 grams of flour, 2 whole eggs and 2 egg yolks for 500 milliliters of milk, and refrigerates the batter for 24 hours. If the vanilla pod is put back into the batter to steep, it continues to impart its aroma while the batter rests. The batter is poured into the molds once it is uniform and has taken on the aroma.<\/p>\n A canel\u00e9 showing its flutes and browned surface (2017, location unknown). Photo: Rhododendrites<\/a> \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a> \/ CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The fluted mold forms both the outline of the pastry and its crust at the same time. Traditional copper molds conduct heat readily, and some recipes use aluminum molds. So that the pastries can be released from the molds, the insides are thinly coated with fat. Some methods use food-grade beeswax, while others use butter or fat spray; beeswax is not an essential ingredient mixed into the batter.<\/p>\n One way of baking starts at a high temperature, then lowers the temperature and continues baking. In one example, in copper or aluminum molds, baking at 270\u00b0C for 10 minutes followed by about 45 minutes at 200\u00b0C combines strong initial heat with time afterward to cook the center through. Baking temperatures and times are adjusted to the size of the molds and to the oven.<\/p>\n The exterior in contact with the mold loses moisture, and the browning of the sugar-containing surface deepens. The center keeps a softness that comes from its high milk and egg content. The temperature is adjusted so the crust does not burn too much while the heat cooks through to the soft center. Some recipes remove the canel\u00e9s from the molds while they are still slightly warm after baking.<\/p>\n A story has been handed down that nuns of the Annonciade received egg yolks left over from clarifying wine and flour spilled at the port, and baked pastries for the poor. Egg whites were indeed used in one method of clarifying wine. However, the story that the nuns devised today’s fluted canel\u00e9 is passed down as a legend.<\/p>\n Another pastry thought to be connected with the canel\u00e9 is the canaule<\/em>. In the 17th century, the canauliers<\/em>, who made unleavened bread-like pastries containing milk and sugar, grew in number, and in 1663 they formed a guild. In the 18th century they came into conflict with pastry cooks, and by the 19th century there were no longer any artisans who specialized in making canaules. Although the names are similar, the canaules of that time differed in ingredients and shape from today’s fluted, rum-flavored canel\u00e9, and no continuity in how they were made is known.<\/p>\n The name canel\u00e9 appears in a novel by Jean Balde published in 1937. In the 1980s, promotion by pastry shops and the city spread awareness of the pastry, and in 1985 a trade association chose canel\u00e9<\/em>, spelled with a single n, as its collective trademark. The original spelling, cannel\u00e9<\/em>, is also used.<\/p>\n The French word cannel\u00e9<\/em> means \u201cfluted\u201d or \u201chaving grooves or deep ridges,\u201d and the dictionary of the Acad\u00e9mie fran\u00e7aise also lists its use as a noun for the Bordeaux pastry baked in a fluted mold. The word aptly describes the fluted shape of today’s canel\u00e9.<\/p>\n In Japan, the canel\u00e9 became known in the late 1990s through Western-style pastry shops and bakeries, and food expert Tomoko Ogura has written that renewed attention spread from shops in the Kansai region from 2012 onward. In the renewed boom around 2022, the range of flavors and appearances also widened, with canel\u00e9s that add matcha or fruit to the batter and canel\u00e9s topped with cream or fruit in the hollow on top.<\/p>\n The reasons for making small canel\u00e9s also relate to the occasions on which they are eaten. Daniel, in Hyogo, told an interviewer that it originally served canel\u00e9s as small sweets at the end of a French restaurant’s course meal, and because the size found in France was too large, it ordered small molds from Europe. In response to requests to take them home, it later expanded into a baked-goods shop. This is one example of a small Bordeaux pastry growing from an after-meal bite into a gift chosen from a variety of flavors.<\/p>\n Jean Balde<\/strong>: The pen name of Jeanne Alleman, a writer from Bordeaux. She mentioned the canel\u00e9 by name in a novel published in 1937.<\/p> Clarification<\/strong>: The process of removing cloudiness from a liquid. In winemaking, one method uses egg whites.<\/p> Beeswax<\/strong>: Wax derived from honeybee combs. One method is to coat the inside of molds with food-grade beeswax to make baked goods easier to release.<\/p> Tomoko Ogura<\/strong>: A food expert who has written about the popularity and evolution of the canel\u00e9 in Japan.<\/p> Collective trademark<\/strong>: A trademark used by the members of a particular organization to identify goods or services.<\/p> Canauliers<\/strong>: Bordeaux artisans of the 17th century who made the old canaule containing milk and sugar. A connection in method with today’s canel\u00e9 has not been confirmed.<\/p> The Eur\u00eakoi answer from the Bordeaux Municipal Library records the 17th-century unleavened pastry containing milk and sugar and the 1663 guild. A separate claim about rights in the English-language Wikipedia, that milk and sugar were prohibited until 1755, is not supported by this answer, and an independent primary source that would confirm the period and the parties concerned was not read this time. The main text is limited to the records of the ingredients and the guild.<\/p>\n<\/li> According to the Bordeaux Municipal Library’s research answer, no characteristic molds were found in the 1995 excavation of the former convent site, and no descriptions of similar pastries or molds have been found in the departmental convent archives either. This note is limited to whether there is evidence for treating the legend as historical fact.<\/p>\n<\/li> R\u00e9gion Nouvelle-Aquitaine, \u201cLe cannel\u00e9 bordelais\u201d<\/a> \u2014 The limits of the sources for the convent theory and the egg-yolk theory, the 1937 novel, popularization in the 1980s, the 1985 spelling, molds and greasing.<\/p>\n<\/li> Norohy \/ Valrhona, \u201cCannel\u00e9s\u201d<\/a> \u2014 Whole eggs and egg yolks, infusing vanilla in milk, 24-hour refrigeration, copper and aluminum molds with spray oil, two-stage baking, unmolding while warm.<\/p>\n<\/li> Bordeaux Tourisme, \u201cCanel\u00e9s et autres gourmandises bordelaises\u201d<\/a> \u2014 Milk, eggs, flour, sugar and butter; rum and vanilla; the crust and the center.<\/p>\n<\/li> Bordeaux Municipal Library \/ Eur\u00eakoi, \u201cHistorical sources on the canel\u00e9\u201d<\/a> \u2014 Convent remains and archives, the 1663 canauliers guild, structural differences between the old pastry and the modern one, the 1985 trademark.<\/p>\n<\/li> Acad\u00e9mie fran\u00e7aise: cannel\u00e9, 9e \u00e9dition<\/a> \u2014 The adjectival meaning of cannel\u00e9 and its noun use for the pastry.<\/p>\n<\/li>Infusing the milk and resting the batter in the refrigerator<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nFilling fluted molds and baking at a high temperature, then lowering it<\/h2>\n
The legend of the nuns’ invention and the history of the canauliers<\/h2>\n
A Bordeaux symbol with two surviving spellings<\/h2>\n
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\nPopularity in Japan and the shift to small take-home gifts<\/h2>\n
Glossary<\/h2>\n
References<\/h2>\n
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