Galettes de Cherbourg de Mamine

Name: Galettes de Cherbourg de Mamine
Yield: about 4 dozen cookies
Ingredients: 1 1/4 sticks (10 tablespoons) unsalted butter or pareve margarine; 3/4 cup sugar; 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1 large egg; 2 scant cups all-purpose flour; 1 cup slivered almonds or whole pine nuts

December 9, 2011

This cookie was one that “Mamine”—an affectionate name for Maryse Weil, the matriarch of the Weil family from Besançon—baked as a young girl for family gatherings. Her granddaughter Martine Trèves makes it now in her kitchen. She showed me the recipe from a handwritten book that suggested adding a “grain of salt” to the batter.

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