galette

galette englanniksi

1. A type of flat, round cake from France.

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3. (quote-book) Created to celebrate Epiphany, or Twelfth Night, the day the Three Kings visited the infant Jesus, the galette should probably appear only on Epiphany, January 6, but knowing something wonderful when they see (and taste) it, Parisians have made the ''galette des rois'' a month-long indulgence. The word galette can mean many things(nb..), among them a crêpe; a small savory pancake (think potato pancake); a cookie, usually a butter cookie from Brittany; or a round thick but not particularly high cake, like the kings' cake. The ''galette des rois'' is two rounds of puff pastry filled with a mixture of almond cream and pastry cream.

4. (clipping of): a crêpe or pancake made with buckwheat flour, and often with a savoury filling, originally from (w) in France.

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7. dough, dosh, bread

8. cookie

9. bannock, frybread

10. cookie, biscuit

11. thrashing

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