Last updated Apr 18, 2026
Brussels pastry
Technical
The pain à la grecque is a typical Brussels pastry consisting of a simple rectangle of milk bread, brown sugar, and cinnamon sprinkled with granulated sugar.
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Precision scale for modernist recipes, baking, hydrocolloids
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