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As we shall see, ''Larousee Larousse Gastronomique'' isn't any more reliable than ''Astérix'' as a source of knowledge about history. After all, why should have Stanislas taken an Alsatian ''kouglof'' and steeped it in Alsatian ''kirsch'' while staying in Lorraine? Was this recipe really developed by the king himself or rather by one of his pastrycooks, such as the aforementioned Stohrer? And most importantly, why would a Pole name a cake after some Ali Baba, if in his own language the word ''baba'' had been already used for yeast cakes for centuries?
It looks like we need to take a closer look at this King Stanislas and his relation to the baba. You could shoot a few action movies based on his biography, but I will do my best to recap his life and his times as succinctly as possible.
