What food item is the Kipferl a descendant of ?
By 1869 , the croissant was well established enough to be mentioned as a breakfast staple , and in 1872 , Charles Dickens wrote ( in his periodical " All the Year Round " ) of : the workman 's pain de ménage and the soldier 's pain de munition , to the dainty croissant on the boudoir tableThe puff pastry technique which now characterizes the croissant was already mentioned in the late 17th century , when La Varenne 's " Le Cuisinier françois " gave a recipe for it in the 1680 – and possibly earlier – editions .