Galette

Quick meaning: Galette is a noun meaning A type of flat, round cake from France.

Meaning

A type of flat, round cake from France.

More Meanings

1. Clipping of Breton galette (“a crêpe or pancake made with buckwheat flour, and often with a savoury filling, originally from Upper Brittany in France”).

Example Sentences

We skipped dessert and walked down through the raindrops to a bake-shop to sample the flat Breton galette, made of sugar, eggs, butter, and flour […]

Apricot Galette. A galette is a rustic, free-form fruit tart, baked directly on a lined baking sheet rather than in a tart pan. Some galettes are made with puff pastry, others with yeast dough, and yet others with sweet tart or pastry dough.

Young Turnip Galette with Cardamom. A galette can be any manner of flat, round cake or tart. In this case, it is an exquisite arrangement of buttery-thin turnip slices, glazed and sealed together in an overlapping pattern like the surface of a fine apple tart.

You want a breton galette (cancalaise made up of scallops, smoked bacon and mushrooms cream is a real delight ...), pancakes like the delicious "Bzh" with homemade salted butter, homemade crumble and toasted almonds – note that the specialities are made from organic breton flour.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gateau, crepe, flatcake, cakelette, cake, cake-bread.

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