opas Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 Tomorrow the school is having a Fripperie ,paella lunch and cake sale for funds for the annual ski trip for the students. having donated only a few items of clothing (as our eldests get handed down to the youngest) thought I would go mad at cake making...something I have always enjoyed and never had much time for. So I have made butterfly buns,chocolate truffles, bakewell tart and scones planned for the morning to be served with cream and jam....as there is a mainly English tea theme here i thought I would label the Items,stuck on how to describe a butterfly bun? mini gateau de papillon? the dictionary describes `bun` as a pain as in muffin which from the north of england is a tea bread. Also scone...from It having cream and jam in would suggest a cake but how to describe it? Mrs O off to sample some home bake! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 I've always called them butterfly cakes, and that is what I would call them petit gauteau en papillion or some such thing....... anyone more literaire than me may be able to come up with something more poetic. And scones, I call them galettes. As they have little fat or sugar in them, well mine don't, I think that they should be called galettes. They always go down well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letrangere Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 I remember being absolutely astonished to discover that my Parisienne friends much preferred "English cakes" to any of those gorgeous little offerings from Hediard and other smart patisseries. (The same wickedly delicious pastries that Saligo Bay had always looked at and thought, "who on earth buys these?". Until I came clean and admitted that I, for one, did!)Anyway, Parisienne friends were plunged into depths of despair (as so many of us were) when Marks & Spencers closed for it cut off their most reliable supply of - wait for it ..... CRUMPETS! I hadn't eaten a crumpet in 30 years until I moved to Paris and was served them by a FRENCH WOMAN! I'd previously always thought of them as nursery food but clearly not. Do you have a source in your part of the country? Is it possible to home bake them?M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 Believe it or not in Manche you can buy Mother's Pride crumpets from the fish and chip van... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted January 22, 2005 Author Share Posted January 22, 2005 Dick Smith ,you should be banned! writing about crumpets and fish and chips in the same sentence!! Love crumpets and have to rely on Quillanites to bring them on their visits ,as for fish and chip vans , only last night whilst watching late night TV, Mr O said he could murder for a chippy supper....but the `up north` version , Pie and chips,Hollands of course. the nearest thing to a pie down here is pizza or those calamarie tartlet things....they just do not hit the spot! Mrs O cream scone for breckie anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val_2 Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Hovis Crumpets and Muffins freely available in Carrefour inSt.Brieuc. For the scones and jam we use Mascapone chees cos it spreads nicely and tastes better than whipped cream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battypuss Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Well, I can't get to the F&C van in Mortai, not having a car. Now my mouth is watering for crumpets. I hate you lot!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceR Posted January 29, 2005 Share Posted January 29, 2005 I would imagine your English teas would go like hot cakes(sorry). In Le Touquet market there is what we call the Rnglish cultural mission. Its a cake stall started by an English woman years ago and sells treacle tarts, fruit cake, quiches etc. it is always surrounded 3 deep by French people in a feeding frenzy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted January 29, 2005 Share Posted January 29, 2005 crumpets, thats a sore point. Guests bought two packets and ended up eating all but 2.cant buy them in our area , muffins however are freely available Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cojo227 Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 Hello, new to this forum, just reading about English cakes and teas in France reminds that whilst visiting friends in the Ruffec area of the Charente we found a lovely little English tea shop and Art gallery called La Galerie Du Tournesol.It is situated on the road between mansle and St claud and they specialise in traditional English food and puddings, full english breakfast and also do clotted cream teas (of which I had the pleasure of partaking in).They also do a vegetarian option which is quite unheard of in most French restaurants.Fabulous little place, friendly proprieters, well worth the visit if you are down that way.I bought a flyer back to England with me, they have a web site... www.lagaleriedutournesol.com cojo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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