French Bakery Vocabulary
In today’s episode French bakery vocabulary, we’ll go beyond baguette while learning vocabulary, practice pronunciation and learn useful sentences! Remember in France bakeries and pastries are different stores. Pastries don’t sell any breads.
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#1 Bread = Pain
Inside a French bakery, you’ll find many kinds of bread = pain. ‘Pain’ isn’t pronounced like in English. When you see the cluster ‘ain’, like in ‘saint’, you make the sound [ɛ̃].
Une baguette
Une tradition (a baguette made with better flour and with slow raising)
Un pain = a larger baguette
Un pain complet = a loaf of whole wheat bread
Un pain de mie = Sandwich bread
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#2 Les Viennoiseries = Between bread and pastries
Viennoiseries = A really difficult word to say!
Un Croissant au beurre/nature
Un pain au chocolat/Chocolatine = Chocolate filled croissant
Une Brioche = Sweet Buttery Bread
Un pain au raisin = Round shaped, filled with raisins and custard
Un chausson au pommes = Flaky pastry filled with apple sauce.
Des chouquettes = French sugar puffs
#3 A la Boulangerie = At the bakery
La boulangère
Bonjour Madame, je voudrais une baguette bien cuite s’il vous plait = Hello, I’d like a well done baguette, please.
Bonjour je voudrais une baguette pas trop cuite s’il vous plait= Hello, I’d like a lightly baked baguette, please.
Et avec ceci ? = Anything else?” / “Will that be all?
Ce sera tout, merci = That’d be all, thank you!
Au revoir, madame, bonne journée = Goodbye, have a good day