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It’s probably very easy to sell me random rubbish when wondering around Tesco at 6.15am. I was hungry, there was no food in the house, and the Histon Tesco was happy to provide me with a selection of breakfast goods. However, I still pine for the breakfast experience from when we stayed in Maumont. There we discovered the optimal way to get breakfast was fresh croissants and cakes from the local boulangerie. More specifically though, the boulangerie in Hautforte did better cakes and the boulangerie in St Agnan did better croissants, and given both were just five minutes away, there was no point compromising :) Anyway, the Histon bakery seems to not produce fresh croissants of a morning, so now I have to do without.

Back to Tesco at 6.15 am this morning. I wanted something bready, for I failed to bake anything such yesterday, when I spotted in the fridge cabinate a tube of croissant dough ready to bake! You just know that this is not going to recreate St Agnan in my kitchen, but I was sufficiently tired to bypass my usual cynicism of such products and thought I’d give it a whirl, which is why I’m now sat here with a set of freshly baked croissants! They aren’t nearly as good as the real thing, but they are better than the sort you get in a shrink wrapped pack baked several days ago. They’re nicely warm, and next time I’ll try to be awake enough to glaze them, but it’s uber easy to produce. You open the tube, unroll the pasty (it’s already a rolled up strip with triangles marked out in it, so no rolling pins or geometry required) and put in oven. They’re a bit dry, but nothing that a bit of buttery applied to them can’t sort.

Goes well with my Wild Blueberry Conserve I got yesterday. It’s made by Wilkin & Sons Ltd, which a lot of places stock, but hardly anywhere stocks this flavour. Oh for a Peckhams in Cambridge!