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A crêpe or crepe (/ k r eɪ p / ⓘ KRAYP [3] or / k r ɛ p / KREP, French: ⓘ, Quebec French: ⓘ) is a dish made from unleavened batter or dough that is cooked on a frying pan or a griddle. Crêpes are usually one of two varieties: sweet crêpes ( crêpes sucrées ) or savoury galettes ( crêpes salées ).
Historians claim that the crepe has existed since 7000 BC. The crepe was quite thick, made with a batter mixing water and various crushed cereals. It was a simple porridge spread and dried out which was prepared on a hot stone then on a metal plate, "bilig" in Breton, then cooked in the hearth of the fireplace. Buckwheat is originally from Asia ...
The origin of the dish and its name is disputed. One claim is that it was created from a mistake made by a 14-year-old assistant waiter, Henri Charpentier, [2] in 1895 at the Maitre at Monte Carlo's Café de Paris.
The term "nouvelle cuisine" has been used many times in the history of French cuisine which emphasized the freshness, lightness and clarity of flavor and inspired by new movements in world cuisine. In the 1740s, Menon first used the term, but the cooking of Vincent La Chapelle and François Marin was also considered modern.
Chouquette – Petits fours originating in France; Coussin de Lyon – Sweet pastry specialty of Lyon, France; Croissant – Crescent-shaped viennoiserie pastry; Croquembouche – French dessert; Croustade – Culinary term for a crust or pie-crust of any type; Divorcé - A pastry consisting of two choux separated by vanilla cream
Ficelle picarde. Ficelle picarde ("Picardy string") is a dish of Picardy, northern France, consisting of a rolled savoury crêpe stuffed with a slice of ham and a creamed shallots duxelles, broiled in cream under a layer of cheese.
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Galette (from the Norman word gale, meaning 'flat cake') is a term used in French cuisine to designate various types of flat round or freeform crusty cakes, [1] or, in the case of a Breton galette (French: Galette bretonne [galɛt bʁətɔn]; Breton: Krampouezhenn gwinizh du), a pancake made with buckwheat flour usually with a savoury filling.