"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
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> On Fri 12 Aug 2005 08:22:08p, Carrie Jacques wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> This is my first post to the group, and I'm hoping someone may be able
>> to help.
>>
>> My father used to be a manager at Le Biftheque
>> (http://www.lebiftheque.com) about ten years or so ago, when the
>> restaurant was in the states (I think they are only in Canada now). The
>> restaurant has the most wonderful dessert I've ever had, called
>> Millefeuille. My father cannot remember the recipe for the dessert, he
>> used to know it by heart but as he's gotten older he can no longer
>> remember it. His birthday is coming up and I would love to make it for
>> him, as it was a family favorite of ours when I was younger.
>>
>> I remember some things that were in this dessert: it had two layers of
>> graham crackers (one bottom layer and one on the top), two layers of a
>> cream or pudding (yellow and white), a top and on top of the graham
>> crackers on the top there was white icing drizzled with chocolate. It
>> looks a lot like a Napoleon but this dessert definitely tasted a lot
>> different and it was much better. I've tried to wing it, not follow a
>> specific recipe and make it from memory, but I always fail miserably.
>>
>> If anyone knows how to make this, I would love to have the recipe.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Carrie
>
> This seems to be almost exactly what you are looking for.
>
> "MILLE FEUILLE"
> 2 pkgs. vanilla pudding (cook and serve); 1 (6 oz.) and 1 (3.4 oz.)
> 1 box graham crackers
> 1 pt. heavy whipping cream
> 6-8 oz. chocolate chips
>
> Layer 9x13 Pyrex dish with graham crackers. Cook pudding according to box
> directions. Slowly pour pudding over crackers. Cover pudding with graham
> cracker layer. Beat whipping cream, then cover over graham cracker. Melt
> chocolate chips, then sprinkle melted chocolate over whipped cream. Chill
> 1-2 hours before serving.
>
>
>
> --
> Wayne Boatwright *¿*
>
What a horrible murder of a wonderful pastry! Mille-feuilles are made with
puff pastry.
Mille-feuilles are a type of pastry consisting of two thin sheets of pastry
laid on top of each other like a sandwich with jam and cream spread on the
inside and a thin layer of icing (usually lemon icing) on top.
The word mille-feuille means thousand leaves in French