{"id":611,"date":"2013-01-17T21:56:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T21:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/?p=611"},"modified":"2015-04-28T17:02:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T17:02:58","slug":"epiphany-feves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/epiphany-feves\/","title":{"rendered":"Epiphany &#8216;f\u00e8ves&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the Christian feast day of Epiphany it is a tradition in many countries to bake a festive &#8216;king cake&#8217;, which marks the visit of the three kings to the infant Jesus. Part of this tradition involves baking a token into the cake, with the recipient having particular privileges bestowed upon them for the coming year. In France, king cake &#8211; <em>galette du rois<\/em> &#8211; comes in two distinct types. In the north of the country, it is a tart with a frangipan filling, whereas in the south it is made with brioche dough and forms a ring, decorated with candied fruit.\u00a0 Whichever version it is, the token, which was originally a dried broad bean, is an essential feature.<\/p>\n<p>The French for bean is <em>f\u00e8ve<\/em>, and although they are now made of metal or porcelain and come in many different shapes, they are still known as f\u00e8ves. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lepetitatelierdeparis.com\/welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">Le Petit Atelier de Paris<\/a>, a design duo with a workshop and storefront in the Rue de Montmorency in Paris, made these beautiful porcelain f\u00e8ves for the famous Poil\u00e2ne bakery to use in their galettes, which appear to be of the northern persuasion.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/poilanefeve.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-616 size-full\" title=\"poilanefeve\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/poilanefeve.jpg\" alt=\"Poil\u00e2ne f\u00e8ves\" width=\"700\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/poilanefeve.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/poilanefeve-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/poilanefeve-158x105.jpg 158w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a> Presumably customers are reminded to exercise great care with their molars when enjoying their festive treat&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-611\" data-postid=\"611\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-611 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\n\t<\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the Christian feast day of Epiphany it is a tradition in many countries to bake a festive &#8216;king cake&#8217;, which marks the visit of the three kings to the infant Jesus. Part of this tradition involves baking a token into the cake, with the recipient having particular privileges bestowed upon them for the coming<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/epiphany-feves\/\"> read more&#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3141,"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}