Question: What food item is the Kipferl a descendant of?
About the article "Croissant", section "Origin".

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Makówki is also well known in Brandenburg and Berlin under the name "Mohnpielen" A similar dish, but with slices of Kifli (Kipferl) in Hungary is called "Mákos Guba". 
The Kipferl, ancestor of the croissant, has been documented in Austria going back at least as far as the 13th century, in various shapes.
The Kipferl can be made plain or with nut or other fillings (some consider the rugelach a form of Kipferl).
The "birth" of the croissant itself – that is, its adaptation from the plainer form of Kipferl, before the invention of Viennoiserie – can be dated with some precision to at latest 1839 (some say 1838), when an Austrian artillery officer, August Zang, founded a Viennese bakery ("Boulangerie Viennoise") at 92, rue de Richelieu in Paris.
This bakery, which served Viennese specialities including the Kipferl and the Vienna loaf, quickly became popular and inspired French imitators (and the concept, if not the term, viennoiserie, a 20th-century term for supposedly Vienna-style pastries).
The French version of the Kipferl was named for its crescent ("croissant") shape and has become a identifiable shape across the world.
Alan Davidson, editor of the "Oxford Companion to Food", found no printed recipe for the present-day croissant in any French recipe book before the early 20th century; the earliest French reference to a croissant he found was among the "fantasy or luxury breads" in Payen's "Des substances alimentaires", 1853.
However, early recipes for non-laminated croissants can be found in the nineteenth century and at least one reference to croissants as an established French bread appeared as early as 1850.
Zang himself returned to Austria in 1848 to become a press magnate, but the bakery remained popular for some time after, and was mentioned in several works of the time: "This same M. Zank ...founded around 1830 , in Paris, the famous Boulangerie viennoise".
Several sources praise this bakery's products: "Paris is of exquisite delicacy; and, in particular, the succulent products of the Boulangerie Viennoise"; "which seemed to us as fine as if it came from the Viennese bakery on the rue de Richelieu".
By 1869, the croissant was well established enough to be mentioned as a breakfast staple, and in 1872, Charles Dickens wrote (in his periodical "All the Year Round") of: the workman's pain de ménage and the soldier's pain de munition, to the dainty croissant on the boudoir tableThe puff pastry technique which now characterizes the croissant was already mentioned in the late 17th century, when La Varenne's "Le Cuisinier françois" gave a recipe for it in the 1680 – and possibly earlier – editions.
It was typically used, not on its own, but for shells holding other ingredients (as in a vol-au-vent).
But it does not appear to be mentioned in relation to the croissant until the twentieth century.
Kifli () is a traditional European yeast roll made into a crescent shape.
The pastry is called kifli in Hungarian, "Kipferl" in Austrian German, кифла/"kifla" in Serbian, "kifla" in Bosnian, "рогалик" in Ukrainian, "кифла" in Bulgarian.
In the West Slavic languages is called "rohlík" in Czech, "rožok" in Slovak and "rogal" in Polish. 
Food processing operations are involved with the amount of moisture content present in the food item which is going to be processed for a specific purpose. 
Pair of guest decides on who is eating and who is passing.
The one eating is blindfolded and the one passing must use an extra-long chopstick to transfer food from a in-circular motion table to the mouth of the blindfolded guest.
The passer can choose whichever food item to transfer.
Once a transfer is good, the blindfolded guest must guess correctly what the food item is in order to count as successful.
If wrong, guest will have to try again on next transfer.
Within a time limit, each team must transfer and guess correctly as many food item as possible.
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