before written exam

Didn’t show up for quite a while. Lazy is the reason, exam is the excuse.

I was not nervous or stressed, but some of my classmates really did. For the written exam, it’s like 40 multiple choice and true or false.
Haven’t been in an exam for almost 12 yrs., it’s so much fun to attend an exam, which is about patisserie.

To cope with such leisure topic, I better put myself in a leisure mood. So I headed to a park to study and made a visit at a nearby museum.

(These are the posters I saw in a metro, that they are actually juxtaposed in the same compartment.)

When I finished my study, under the sunshine and on the lawn, I visited Musee Nissim de Camondo. It was a living mansion at the turn of the 20th century, a part of the house was turned into a museum and remain a huge collection of painting and furniture.
Inside the house, seemed that every single piece of wood and bronze should be carved into some pattern or animals.


Typical French. but the most impressive is the kitchen. See the first time somebody has the same idea with me. The ceiling of the kitchen are cover with tiles so as greasy would be easily removed. And the cooking utensils are made of bronze, even the whisk! Oven and stove are beautifully made of iron…

Oh-la la, this is just the kitchen I want and it’s not fancy at all. And suddenly it seemed that what I did is related to the ‘exam’ i was prepare for, so, I’m still not too lazy~~

so back to the written exam, the MC Question about how many % of sugar in Chantilly cream? How much dry butter require in a croissant recipe for 1 kg of flour? What’s the temperature when sugar syrup heat to caramel?….. maybe the first time I’m interested in the content of the exam and try to find out the answer because I WANT to know.
For the recipe part, just fill in the blanks of some of the missing quantity or items within 6 recipes. It’s patisserie, other then flour, sugar, butter.. nothing is too difficult to memorize.( I got 100 for this part^o^)