buckwheat cake

Each region of France serves special dishes for this feast: raw oysters in Paris, foie gras in Alsace, buckwheat cakes and sour cream in Brittany.

The authors also have recommendations for breakfast on the big day: “grapes, oat flakes, broiled porterhouse steak, codfish balls, browned potatoes, buckwheat cakes, maple syrup, wheat bread and coffee.”

There were debates over whether commercial baking powder, new on the market, would hurt their buckwheat cakes.

Pancakes, sausage cakes, golden buckwheat cakes, gravy, oatmeal, thick cream, maple syrup, fried potatoes, preserves, jams, jellies, doughnuts, spicy apple pie: that was breakfast.

Hot and tender buckwheat cakes, with syrup made from maple sugar melted in a tin cup.