{"id":2456,"date":"2004-01-06T13:13:09","date_gmt":"2004-01-06T18:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2018-11-26T13:14:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T18:14:04","slug":"epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=2456","title":{"rendered":"Epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">In many french speaking countries today is &#8220;Le jour des Rois&#8221;, it refers to &#8220;les Rois Mages&#8221; (the three wise men who found baby Jesus). It is also known as Epiphany. Traditionally, on this day, a special cake is made: &#8220;la galette des rois&#8221; and inside the cake a bean (or coin) is hidden. The person who gets the bean is crowned king for the day.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Depending on the region of France the recipe varies, but the most widely used one is called a Pithyvier. It is a rather dry cake made out of flaky dough and filled with an almond mixture.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Over the years I have made many different cakes for this occasion, always with two beans, to have a king and a queen. But this year I decided to buy it ready made. I found a Pithyvier and was pleased to see they even included a pretty crown with it. I was disappointed to see they only had one &#8220;winner&#8221; but decided to be grown up about it, thinking I could insert an extra bean from underneath&#8230;I asked the baker if it was a bean or a coin&#8230;and was surprised to learn they use Disney figurines.!!! I am still trying to find a link between Minnie mouse and the magi&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-161.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2457\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-161.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-161.png 499w, https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-161-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In many french speaking countries today is &#8220;Le jour des Rois&#8221;, it refers to &#8220;les Rois Mages&#8221; (the three wise men who found baby Jesus). It is also known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions\/2458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}