Savoie Cookies for Ice Cream or as Plain Dessert

There are not many fancy cookies in the Savoie; most of those prepared now come from the Classic French repertory. The most popular are, by all means, those huge meringues shaped with large spoons that, in the village of Grésy, are still given the traditional antique shape of women’s breasts. Otherwise, Marie Thérèse Hermann mentions some jembelles made with polenta that are amazingly identical to those cornmeal sables that my stepgrandmother used to make. Mique Grandchamp has a good recipe for what he spells brisselets. Here they are: