Pain à la grecque

Pain à la grecque is linked to the founding of the Augustijnenklooster (Augustinian monastery) in Brussels in 1589. It was a significant moment, as the Netherlands had gone through the Reformation, and the founding of this cloister was part of the revival of Catholicism in the region. The monks taught lessons in their cloister, acted as firefighters to the community and, according to legend, on feast days they also baked biscuits with leftover bread dough and sugar and handed