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Submitted by gcook17 on November 19, 2009 - 4:00pm Lunettes with Fig FillingThese pastries are made of croissant dough and filled with a fig filling. Apparently lunettes are, among other things, eyeglasses in French. You could use any croissant dough you liked, but the dough I used for these was whole wheat with a sponge from ABAP, by Suas. 2 lbs. of detrempe (dough before adding the roll-in butter) made 12 lunettes. I rolled out the dough to about 18" x 12". After spreading the filling on the whole surface I rolled the dough up from each end lengthwise. The resulting roll was 12" long and I cut it into 12 1" slices with a serrated knife. It was necessary to clean off the knife after every two cuts because the fig filling stuck to it.
This amount of filling is plenty (or maybe too much) for a dozen lunettes. Suas warns against using too much filling because it will make the makeup difficult. I used about 1/2 to 2/3 of the filling described below. The taste of the filling is subtle--next time I will try using a bit more. I used the almond meal from Trader Joe's which comes in 1 pound bags. It is made from unblanched almonds (peel and all) so it's not good for things that need a light colored almond paste. The fig filling formula in ABAP called for almond paste which I took to mean marzipan so I approximated it with the following. Fig filling Part 2 - Fig filling (somewhat based on ABAP) |
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