Sylvain Claudius Goy was a
French chef who is sometimes said to have recorded the earliest recipe of the modern
croissant
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.
His 1915 book ''La Cuisine Anglo-Americaine'' contains a croissant recipe which
Frey Fine Books describe having "
iven
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Notable residents
*Georg Detlev von Flemming
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birth to the croissant of present day".
Goy's recipe uses a laminated yeast dough known in French as ''pâte feuilletée levée''.
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