Over four pastries were eaten by the winner of the 4th Polish Championships in Eating Saint Martin's Croissants on time in Jarocin (Greater Poland). Saint Martin has been the patron of this city for eleven years. Fifteen candidates entered the competition in front of the local town hall. Andrzej Chlebosz from Cerekwica Nowa turned out to be the best, which he ate in three minutes 718 I am playing this dough, traditional in Wielkopolska. Received for it 600 gold prizes from the owner of one of the local pastry shops and a local weekly, competition organizer – “Jarocińska newspaper”. Croissants are baked from semi-French dough, stuffed with white poppy seeds, vanilla, ground dates, sugar, cream, raisin, butter and orange peel. This recipe must be followed by Polish confectioners when baking this delicacy, that he may fulfill the honorable title “Martin's Croissant”. The championship was one of the events organized on the occasion of the Independence Day and the city's patron saint.
