Real Recipes From Real Home Cooks ®

galettes blanches de grand-mère

Recipe by
Vicki Butts (lazyme)
Grapeview, WA

Galettes Blanches De Grand-Mère (Grandmother's White Soft Cookies) Galettes were probably brought to Quebec with the first settlers from France. From Traditional Quebec Cooking by Micheline-Mongrain-Dontigny. No yield was given, so I'm guessing.

yield 24 serving(s)
prep time 15 Min
cook time 15 Min
method Bake

Ingredients For galettes blanches de grand-mère

  • 2/3 c
    shortening
  • 1
    egg
  • 1 c
    brown sugar
  • 1 c
    milk
  • 2 tsp
    baking powder
  • 3 c
    flour

How To Make galettes blanches de grand-mère

  • 1
    Cream shortening and sugar. Add egg.
  • 2
    Add dry ingredients alternating with milk. Dough will be soft and difficult to manipulate.
  • 3
    Generously flour working surface and roll out a third of the dough at a time to a thickness of 1/2 inch.
  • 4
    Generously dust top of dough before rolling out.
  • 5
    Cut 3 inch circles of dough, lift carefully with spatula, shake off excess flour by rapidly shifting galette between hands and place on a lightly greased cookie sheet leaving a 2 inch space between galettes.
  • 6
    Bake in middle of oven for 15 minutes at 350F.
  • 7
    Remove galettes from baking sheet with spatula and cool on wire rack.
  • 8
    Store in airtight container to prevent drying out and loosing their soft texture.

Categories & Tags for Galettes Blanches De Grand-Mère:

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT