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Einkorn and spelt flours, cold butter and a sandy mixture, chocolate and hazelnuts on a wooden and linen-covered table in natural light

The blog of the House.

The flours, ingredients and techniques that give my biscuits their flavour and texture.

The taste of ingredients,
care in every gesture.

Here I share the choices and know-how behind my creations.

Le P’tit Doux shortbread on its original plate

Why I chose einkorn.

Carole’s story: a grain chosen for its taste, its identity and the place it gives the dough.

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Le Grand Doux chestnut and Madagascar vanilla shortbread on its plate

Einkorn and spelt, from flavour to texture.

Flavour, crumbliness, dough structure: understanding each flour’s role in cookies and shortbread.

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A bowl of sandy flour mixture, thin slices of butter, milk and cream on a pale wooden table

Charentes-Poitou PDO butter, a signature flavour.

Slow maturation, cream and hazelnut notes: good butter in a measured quantity, with milk and cream for a melting texture.

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Rêve Tonka shortbread on its original plate

Less sugar, more flavour.

Ground brown sugar and coconut sugar for shortbread, brown sugar and dark soft sugar for cookies: each dough has its balance.

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Néory dark chocolate and fleur de sel cookie on its plate

Chocolate in perfect harmony.

Dark chocolate intensity, milk chocolate roundness and Dulcey’s biscuit notes: chocolate complements the ancient grain dough.

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Nosetti hazelnut cookie, original photograph

Crunch and character.

Piedmont hazelnuts, Sicilian almonds and pistachios: chosen origins for sweetness, roundness and character.

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Authentic Opaléia Écrin Noir shortbread on its original plate

The know-how behind my sweet biscuits.

Rubbing in cold butter, milk and cream for a melting texture and less butter, then resting and slow baking.

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Le Nomade savoury sesame and gentle spice biscuits on their original plate

The know-how behind my savoury biscuits.

Sesame and gentle spices, onion and nigella, fennel and sunflower: exploring distinctive pairings around three einkorn and spelt flours.

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An assortment of five Opaléia cookies with their original plates on a pale wooden table

The know-how behind my cookies.

Rubbing in the dough, brown sugar and vergeoise, few eggs, chilling and baking at 170°C: my choices for flavour and a melting texture.

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Opaléia’s Néory cookie on its original plate

The story of the cookie, from little cake to chocolate chip.

From Dutch little cakes to Ruth Wakefield’s chocolate chip: the origins and spread of a now-familiar treat.

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Time for a melting texture.

For my sweet shortbread, I rub cold butter into the flour. Made without eggs, milk and cream bring a melting texture and also allow me to use less butter.

A balanced blend of sugars, 24 hours of rest and slow baking at 150°C complete the process, allowing the grain’s flavour and the delicate texture to come through.

Shaping biscuits by hand in the Opaléia workshop

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