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palets bretons
salt butter biscuits
Crunchy golden palets bretons, widely available in French supermarkets, are sweet biscuits made with salted butter.
They were invented in 1920 by Alexis Le Villain, a Pont-Aven baker, who named them Traou Mad (‘good things’), although they soon became better known as palets for their resemblance to a game popular in the day that involved throwing iron quoits (palets) onto a wooden plank.
Text © Dana Facaros
Image by tetue