Papillottes de Lyon
After the gala evening in Bourg-en-Bresse, I was given a packet of sweets when I collected my coat. These are traditional French Christmas treats - chocolates and fruit jellies wrapped in colourful shiny paper with twisted ends cut into fringes. Usually there is a message and sometimes a cracker (pétard) inside (like in English Christmas crackers) but mine didn't have anything but the wrapper. Legend goes that they were invented in 1790 by a confiseur M. Papillot, who caught his apprentice sending messages to a young lady hidden in sweet wrappers. The word papillote has now been extended to cover anything cooked in paper.
Papillottes de Lyon
After the gala evening in Bourg-en-Bresse, I was given a packet of sweets when I collected my coat. These are traditional French Christmas treats - chocolates and fruit jellies wrapped in colourful shiny paper with twisted ends cut into fringes. Usually there is a message and sometimes a cracker (pétard) inside (like in English Christmas crackers) but mine didn't have anything but the wrapper. Legend goes that they were invented in 1790 by a confiseur M. Papillot, who caught his apprentice sending messages to a young lady hidden in sweet wrappers. The word papillote has now been extended to cover anything cooked in paper.