To make a mille-feuille cake, you take puff pastry, make out of it five cakes of equal size, & of the thickness of two coins, in the last one you shall make a hole in the middle in the shape of a Knight's cross, regarding the size you will base yourself on the dish that you will use for service, bake them in the oven. In French, the first mention of the mille-feuille appears a little later, in 1749, in a cookbook by Menon: The 18th century mille-feuille was served stuffed with jam and marmalade instead of cream. The earliest mention of the name mille-feuille itself appears in 1733 in an English-language cookbook written by French chef Vincent La Chapelle. ( September 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īccording to the Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, mille-feuille recipes from 17th century French and 18th century English cookbooks are a precursor to layer cakes.

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