Pain a la Grecque

Name: Pain a la Grecque
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Belgian
Ingredients: 3 cups flour; 200g butter; 1 cup sugar, plus extra for topping; 1 tsp cinnamon

Pain à la Grecque/pan ah lah GREK/

About this dish

A crisp, buttery sugar-crusted biscuit, despite the name, a Brussels specialty unrelated to Greece.

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Ingredients

🌾3 cups flour

🧈200g butter

🍬1 cup sugar, plus extra for topping

🌰1 tsp cinnamon

Method

Serves 4

Make a firm dough from flour, butter, and sugar and let it rest.

Roll out and cut into rectangular strips.

Sprinkle generously with sugar and cinnamon.

Bake at 180°C (350°F) until golden and crisp.

Cool before serving, as they crisp further while cooling.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Pain à la grecque is a traditional Brussels pastry, its name likely derived from a corruption of a Dutch word rather than any Greek connection.

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