THE PISTOL

His history

If in Belgium everyone knows the gun and knows that it is this wonderful inflated roll, split in the middle with soft crumb and crunchy crust, it has not always had either this form or this crunchiness; he had to go through the centuries to become an adult and so greedy.
His name ?

It would come from the old coin; the pistole or the Latin word pistor meaning "the miller" who semantic shift in the Middle Ages would have come to designate the baker and diminutive gun would be the product of the baker ... the mystery remains ...!
Its history is not easy to trace but we found a text from the story "The pig market" dating from 1590, it is included in a collection of the Chronicles of the Streets of Brussels, corrected second edition, Brussels in the office of the Emancipation Mountain Court, 2 - edition dating from 1834.
"But you are quite mistaken, my good ladies," said a baker, who had listened until then.
The poor devils who are in trouble today are not brigands; they did not offend the smallest mitron; they did not even steal a coke, a pistol, or an ounce of Greek bread ... "
That being so, it is, for the elders and the younger generations, an essential element of the food heritage of our country.
In Belgium, the pistol has multiple cousins, often similar or a little more elongated and otherwise named: loaves, bread, faluche or "brotchen" in the East.
In Brussels and most often in Flanders, it is a Pistol or "een Pistol"!
The pistol is Belgian and will remain so!
Do not try to claim it abroad, the baker could think of a robbery ...

The secret of the gun
The secret of the Pistol, or rather the secrets of the Pistol!
The good Pistol is light, its crumb is airy, delicate, soft.
But before the crumb, there is the crust and the Pistol is itself only by this contrast.
The Pistol is an ephemeral pleasure and carnal before being tasteful.
Contrast between crispness and sweetness, delicate taste highlighting the gourmet pranks it hosts, the Pistol is demanding.
He had unfortunately become a shadow of himself, poorly realized, he had lost his quality faults to too fast working methods and using chemical yeasts and additives ... the general result: cardboard and air!
It was without waiting for his big comeback!
A wonderful meeting with our artisan baker, Yves Guns who delivers us every morning so that each Original Pistol is a perfect experience.

Our baker
Yves Guns, our artisan baker, after studying at UCL, Yves dared to embrace his passion, the bakery, the real, far from additives, flours without taste, industrial kneaders and furnaces without soul.
Yves collaborated with us to create an original recipe, at the source of
Gun.
We are proud to offer thanks to him, a real Pistol that makes its credentials to a product often abused!

A unique concept

Original Pistol, a concept of upscale snacks based on the
Powder filled (but not only!) That offers treats highlighting our terroir, Belgian quality products and their producers.
Pistolet Original, it is a pleasant place located in emblematic districts of Brussels.
It is a grocery store, a counter where you can eat on the spot, where you share a small catering in a friendly atmosphere, we carry suggestions and good products, that we can also choose to be delivered on his place of work or at home.
Pistols?
Yes ! Gun stuffed with an American house, an excellent chopped pickles, gray shrimps, a real crab salad or a real Ardennes ham ... More than 30 different proposals ...
Pistolet Original also aims to make you (re) discover forgotten specialties that some craftsmen still prepare: Bloempanch, Kipkap, pressed head, Cervelas, Pipe of Ardenne, Rollmops or a good potjesvlees according to the season ...
A resolutely terroir concept, craftsman and gourmand!
The products and recipes on our Pistols are part of our heritage and our 100% Belgian know-how.
Pistolet Original is a showcase, constantly evolving, the best of this heritage "Slow", "Locavore", and especially Gourmand!

SIX stars for a sponsorship!
Two prestigious sponsors, true legends of haute cuisine in Belgium, do us the honor and the friendship to sponsor Pistolet Original.

Pierre Wynants ***
For more than 40 years, Lionel Rigolet, chef for more than 40 years at Comme chez Soi, whose reins he passed on to his son-in-law, has for three years counted three Michelin stars.
Pierre Wynants, purebred Brussels, true encyclopedia of gourmet cuisine is a great defender of belgitude in the plate and a great lover of minced pistol ... with pickles!

Freddy Vandecasserie ***
Nearly 40 years at the controls of Villa Lorraine, has also been able to report 3 stars in the Red Guide for many years.
West Flanders, Freddy is a true "touch of everything" of gastronomy.
He could sell his soul for a pistol with hand-peeled gray shrimps, crustaceans that he likes to fish ... himself.
Today, he supports his son Patrick in his new restaurant De Mayeur in Ruisbroek.

A passionate
Original Pistol, a project carried by a passionate.
Valerie Lepla has a passion for gastronomy, cooking and good things peppered to the taste buds since childhood.
Passionate about cooking, when she is not in the kitchen, she travels Belgium and Europe to discover good restaurants and gourmet places.
Press officer in the field of culture and gastronomy for many years, Valérie imagined, wanted, designed and developed the concept
Original pistol.
She is not in her infancy in gastronomy, she has led various projects including the creation of a brewery and a caterer for a famous Brussels restaurant.

Belgian taste
Belgium, land country
Belgium is a land of gastronomy and greed, but our local products are often ignored by the Belgians themselves.
However, in Belgium we have real treasures that Pistolet Original's mission is to (re) discover to the Belgian and foreign public, specialties that are worth a detour.
Cervelas, Boudins, Ardennes ham, Plattekaas, Ghent mustard, Pickles, Mayonnaise and sauces, Gray shrimps, Farm butter, Beef meat of the breed "Flanders red", Kipkap (a kind of pressed head at the jelly but mixed), Potjesvlees, Pipe of Ardennes, Bloempanch, Le Herve cheeses with raw milk only PDO of Belgium, Salad of chicons, dumplings, generous pastry (Ball of Berlin and Eclairs) treats, our country abounds with specialties that Original Pistolet puts in the spotlight.

SEASIDE WISHES
In Original Pistol, what concerns us the most is the quality of the products and the principle of a generous and locavore diet.
It seems important to us to respect the seasons as well as
Belgium is a bit depending on the weather ...
So we adapt, we look for recipes and products to warm our hearts.
In winter, we wait for the game terrines, we prepare a suggestive and greedy suggestion ...
In addition to our menu, we adapt our beloved Belgian recipes to our gourmet culture, such as the famous Cannibale revisited in Pistol Cannibal (e) or a very hot Pistolet with white pudding and melting onions ... We cook our sauerkraut with Gueuze Cantillon and we associate it with Bloempanch in homage to Dirk Myny's "Zenne Pot" (Restaurant Les Brigittines Brussels).
In Belgium, we have an amazing reserve of traditions, recipes, products to share and value, and artisans and producers to celebrate ...

GROCERY
In addition to our tasting counter, our space offers a
groceries of gourmet and Belgian products!
You will find an assortment of different sweets, candies like babeluttes, cuberdons (the truths of Ghent!), Mice, sure, marshmallows, chocolate lard ... But also condiments of our home like the mustard of Ghent and pickles from Tierenteyn, flavored vinegars, oils, spice blends or good brown sugar, homemade jams, chocolate droppings, choco or Dandoy speculoos spread and many more things again ...
In short, enough to satisfy your greedy desires and think of making original gifts.
We can offer "gift assortments" for all occasions and budgets.
Pistol, if you allow me to tutor you, pistol my friend, it does not matter if your name evokes pistole or pistor, first, I want to tell you, stop!
Stop disappearing, wake up, good Lord, what is it to let go that made you very gently deserting the tables of the Sunday breakfast of our laughing countries in favor of pastries always fatter and sweet, surreptitiously sent by spies in addition to Quiévrain, in order to slowly lead our country towards decadence by the slowness of the digestion they imply?
Pistol, come back, come back in the morning, come back at noon, and even at night, look!
And it comes back very strong!
Yes, thanks to Valérie Lepla, designer, initiator, and pistol chef at Pistolet-Original and baker Yves Guns - it's not invented, a guy called Guns as in Gun's and Roses who makes pistols - the gun, the real gun is coming back!

Yes, this magic bun whose split form immediately evokes the most perfect pair of buttocks while its volume, which perfectly fills the hand of an honest man, is that of the ideal nurse breast - or playful, the breast is not not always nurturing, but I go astray - the gun is a promise of pleasure before giving pleasure.

At a time when the bread is more and more to be a nutritionally correct food, the gun is an iconoclast.
Its crumb must be light, it is there only to contrast its crust.
While a loaf should last three days, the gun plays the card of the ephemeral.
Blown, airy, crisp, his promises only last a few hours.
The gun is an excuse, I explain: the gun is certainly perfect when the craftsman who created it broke through his secret, and Yves Weapons, sorry, Yves Guns, he put his finger on it, but the gun begins to exist when it happens to him the best of the best, forgive me but the gun must be stuffed, and well stuffed still well!
And there, Valerie Lepla, you hit hard. You have recruited the best of the best, starting with Yves Guns, you have attacked these guns in the middle to offer them the substantive marrow of our local crafts.
Chopped, yes chopped raw pork, but no you're not going to die of the tapeworm constrictor; American dish based on good Flemish meat from Hendrik Dierendonck, white pudding, young gouda, bloempanch, hand-peeled shrimps, or even just salted butter.
The one who did not bite into a fresh pistol, stuffed with American cressonnette, drinking a real gueuze from us has only a very imperfect knowledge of happiness.
So?
If for many of us, especially you who are under twenty, if for you the gun does not mean much, if for some, the umbilical cord broke between our stomach, our imaginary brain and this miracle with two bumps that is the gun, it does not matter, it comes back, and very beautifully, and above all, it reveals us once again that there are at home men and women who do not have not finished making us want to eat well once.

DELIVERY / EVENT
For all occasions, Pistolet Original can propose you formulas adapted to your professional or private events.
Thanks to our trays, we prepare you assortments of magnificent pistols from our map.
We also offer an exclusive formula of mini pistols based on our map but do not hesitate to ask our suggestions for seasons or parties.
We deliver with pleasure and on request we can organize events / banquet with catering service all-in.
Quotation on request.
delivery@pistolet-original.be

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