This small dry cake was born in 1670 in the town of… Sablé (in Sarthe).
Madame de Sévigné relates that the Marquise de Sablé (Madeleine de Souvré, woman of letters who ran a delicacy school) would have brought there the hotel des Princes de Condé small, dry and round ones.
The king's brother who delights in it and asks Vatel (the butler) to prepare these little cookies for him every morning.
Biscuits that he calls “shortbread” in homage to the eponymous marquise.
The name petit sablé de Sablé was registered in 1923. Nevertheless, you can find very similar small cookies all over the world, such as English shortbread.
In France, the Breton galette is a shortbread with semi-salted butter.
Recipe:
- 125 g of sugar
- 125 g of softened butter
- 250 g of flour
- 1 egg
- 1 pinch of salt
Mix the sugar and the egg
add flour and salt
Add the butter and knead well between the fingers and shape a ball
Leave the dough to rest for 1 hour in the fridge
Make the cookies
Bake for 15 minutes at 180 °.