Pain à la grecque

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The pain à la grecque (literally "Greek bread") is a typical Brussels pastry consisting of a simple rectangle of milk bread, brown sugar, and cinnamon sprinkled with granulated sugar.

The name does not refer to Greece, but is derived from grecht, a word in the local dialect meaning ditch.

References

1. ^ Nicole Hanot et Charles-Xavier Ménage. Nos recettes anciennes et belges. CD-Rom des Bibliothèque et musée de la Gourmandise. ISBN 2-9600307-0-2.
2. ^ Belgium and Luxembourg, 1988. Fodor's Travel Publications. 1987. ISBN 978-0-679-01471-3.

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