Pain à la grecque

Pain à la grecque is a pastry dish from Brussels consisting of flour, milk, butter, and cinnamon, topped with a generous sprinkling of granulated sugar. Although the name of the dish can be translated as Greek bread, it has nothing to do with Greece, but derives from the word grecht, denoting a ditch or canal.

It is believed that the pastry was invented by a French baker who rolled a stale baguette in sugar in order to make its taste more pleasant.