Pies, Trépaïs, Madeleines and other delicacies

pies

Having traveled a lot, I can guarantee you one thing that is 100% sure, 100% genuine and 100% cheerful… We are a country of Bread. There is a culture and local emulation around the good country pie. Often made from flour from our mills, you should also know that even when bakers source their products elsewhere, they transcend the raw material to prepare baguettes, loaves that are both firm and soft, country breads and excellent pies. Sometimes, they even tend to cook them well, to obtain more crispiness... Enjoy them by spreading them with rillettes, jams, fresh cheeses or by sauce the juice of your meat to enjoy until the end of your meal…

Trépaïs

This cake is a relatively recent creation which brings together in one recipe, the pastry specialties of the departments making up the old Limousin region. : Corrèze with Galette Corrézienne, Creuse with Creusois and Haute Vienne with Bourgou. Trépaïs also means Three Countries in Limousin patois…
A triangular cake which points in the direction of the three departments, the Trépaïs is made up of a chestnut mousse, a dark chocolate mousse, a hazelnut dacquoise (a sort of meringue) and a crispy hazelnut praline. hazelnut.
The mousses are applied to the praline, set with the dacquoise, all topped with a chocolate icing.

This cake can be found all year round in Brive (Ernst pastry shop) and Objat (Chevreux pastry shop), among these artisan members of the Association of Pastry Chefs of Limousin.

Madeleines

We often travel in the company of authors in the wild lands... In parallel with the Brive Book Fair, if you want to take a little tour of Proust's work, we invite you to taste some gourmet gems produced by here, our madeleines. To be honest, there is no proven relationship between Combray, which is located near Swan, and Brive or Saint-Yrieix in Limousin... On the other hand, a good number of anonymous people experience the same feeling, the same pang in the heart. heart when they let a Bijou madeleine or a Golfier madeleine (Golfier Bakery in Brive) melt in the mouth… Because these houses have been cooking delicious pastries and cakes, for one of them, since the XNUMXth century… Moreover , who knows, Proust's madeleines perhaps came from our region?