Cooking

Batter: wheat or buckwheat

Froment for crêpes, blé noir for galettes.

Table
BatterMakesFrom
Froment (wheat)crêpeDay one
Blé noir (buckwheat)galetteSack of Buckwheat Flour, 45,00 € at the market

The ladle starts empty. Tap a bowl (or the ladle beside it) to dip it, then press and hold on the griddle to pour. The ticket shows which flour the order wants: a crêpe on wheat, a galette on buckwheat.

Buckwheat and galettes

Until the buckwheat flour is bought its bowl sits under a tied cloth, and nobody orders a galette. Once it is in the shop, guests can ask for galettes and, now and then, for a sweet crêpe on buckwheat. Every savoury filling needs the flour first: there are 12 of them, and 14 of the notebook's recipes are galettes.

A galette cooks a little slower than a crêpe.

The wrong bowl

Pour the other flour by mistake and the kitchen says so straight away. Hold the scraps pail to scrape it off and pour again: it only costs a little time. Serve it anyway and the guest will notice that it is not what they ordered.