{"id":741,"date":"2013-02-01T00:58:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T23:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/?p=741"},"modified":"2013-02-01T01:03:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T00:03:07","slug":"chandeleur-the-national-crepes-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/recipes\/crepes\/chandeleur-the-national-crepes-day","title":{"rendered":"Chandeleur – The national cr\u00eapes day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is February 2nd, and in France it is “la Chandeleur<\/strong>“, or the day of the candles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It is a celebration<\/strong> of pagan origin<\/strong>, and it takes its name from the tradition of lighting candles<\/strong> at midnight on that day, as a symbol of purification.<\/p>\n

Then the “light<\/strong>” became the “sun<\/strong>“, and the “sun” become a symbol of God.<\/p>\n

To celebrate this day, what’s better than a dessert whose shape of golden disc<\/strong> recalls that of the sun?<\/p>\n

Of course I’m talking about cr\u00eapes<\/strong>, a pastry classic<\/strong> that is very versatile<\/strong> (it can be filled with… just anything!) and that makes February 2nd the national cr\u00eapes day in France<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

For the occasion, I’ve created a page with the traditional basic recipe for cr\u00eapes<\/a>, happy Chandeleur to you all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is February 2nd, and in France it is “la Chandeleur“, or the day of the candles. It is a celebration of pagan origin, and it takes its name from the tradition of lighting candles at midnight on that day, as a symbol of purification. Then the “light” became the “sun“, and the “sun” become<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[171,688,155,670,143,107,127],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crepes","tag-chandeleur","tag-crepes","tag-france","tag-french","tag-milk-3","tag-pastry-fundamentals","tag-traditional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}