Where Do Those Ham & Cheese Filled Croissants You Get At The Doughnut Shop Come From? They Are All The Same!?
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I always order ham & cheese filled croissants whenever I end up in a doughnut shop and they are always the same EXACT no matter where you get them. SO… I’m guessing they must order them frozen from some wholesale doughnut supply vendor? Or is there some underground doughnut shop ham & cheese filled croissant secret recipe out there? And what kind of cheese is that?! It seems much too yummie to be American.
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They might just have the same food purveyor (like sysco or FSA), almost all of the restaurants in the town i live in go through FSA so there are a lot of similar products!
Chain bakeries have the same recipes (within the brand) so all the restaurants then have the same product for consistency. So they will order from the same supplier OR their own industrial kitchens will prepare the basic mixes and ship them with the additives (in this case cheese and ham)and deliver them to the individual store where they’re made on site.
Once at the store, the employees just add things like milk or water, do the kneading and all that, then spread out the dough, put in the cheese and ham and shape to the croissant shape and bake. This way, for example, the same menu item in Albany, NY at Dunkin’ Donuts is going to taste the same as in Barstow, CA at Dunkin Donuts.
Usually with large franchises, the parent company develops the recipes in their test kitchens and then does extensive product taste testing to find out whether it’s got cross country appeal. Your ham & cheese croissant may actually have 3 or 4 cheeses in it to give it that “yummie” taste.
Ham and Cheese croissants? I don’t know what they are, but they are definitely NOT croissants. Croissants do not have a filling, EVER, well perhaps in the USA but certainly not in the civilised world.