At the Joinville market on Friday morning, Laetitia Thiebaut sells her biscuit production. Portrait of an enterprising young woman.
Laetitia Thiebaut fell into flour from her childhood. In fact, his dad was a baker and pastry chef. “I watched him do a lot. We lived through this activity,” remembers the Haut-Marnaise from Joinville. So, naturally, she turned to this profession. She obtained her CAP as a baker and pastry chef at the Saint-Exupéry high school in Saint-Dizier. Then, she took a professional hotel services baccalaureate in Nancy. For ten years, she worked as room manager at the Chantecoq inn in Giffaumont. Still in the service, she officiated at the Hôtel du Soleil d'Or and at the Grand-Pont restaurant in Joinville. Gold, “pastry was always my passion, so in these restaurants I helped a lot in the kitchen”, specifies the young woman. She even became a teacher at the Saint-Exupéry vocational high school for three years, teaching the art of service to students.
Taste Week
Last March, she launched her micro-enterprise called “Laetibiscuit”. Biscuit making is all the pastries that don't go in the refrigerator.” specifies the entrepreneur. “I like making cookies using old, sometimes forgotten recipes.” And then: “artisanal cookies are much less sweet.” So, at the beginning of October, during taste week, the pastry chef educates schoolchildren from Joinville, Eclaron and Dommartin-le-Franc about new flavors. The children made breakfast cookies and carrot cakes. “They loved it!”
“I like making biscuits using old recipes”
Candied oranges
The Haute-Marne Attractiveness Agency quickly spotted the gastronomic potential of the cooker. As a result, many tourist offices including that of the Château du Grand-Jardin in Joinville offer its local biscuits. Furthermore, for the end of the year, Laetitia Thiebaut has expanded her range with festive products. So, for examples, she offers cinnamon shortbread or gingerbread. These are made with honey from the Aulnée apiary in Villers-aux-Bois. One of his gingerbreads is decorated with oranges. Of course, the citrus fruits are candied at home by the pastry chef. The young entrepreneur would like to quickly develop her business to be able to buy a food truck. “In order to distribute my biscuits in the villages of Haute-Marne”.
Christmas market Laetitia Thiebaut and her biscuits will be at the Christmas market this November 23 and 24 at the village hall of the Scierie de Dommartin-le-Saint-Père.
