One year I bought a large galette de roi to take in to work. The person who got the charm was our only French member of staff. She got quite tearful, as she'd not had galette de roi in about a decade. She'd been in the UK about 20 years.
We often eat the galette des rois on the Sunday closest to December 6th, which is today because the whole family is there. It's a beautiful tradition for me. The cake is sold with two crowns. We cut the cake and the youngest child sits under the table and tells us who to give each slice to. The person who has the bean (porcelain charm) is a king or queen and has a crown. In turn, she chooses a king or queen and gives him or her the crown. Traditionally, the galette is filled either with a frangipane cream made from almond dough as in the video, or with applesauce. Other toppings can also be found. It's true that the galettes are much better in pastry shops than in supermarkets. This galette is expensive but you can find cheaper ones even in good pastry shops. The cakes are on sale throughout the month of January.
As you say, most of the time, it's the youngest child who goes under the table and blindly designates who will have the next piece of cake. In most families, it is also the one who will have the charm, because above the table, without him/her knowing it, the adults look for which piece the charm is in and give this piece to the one who is under the table. Going under the table has a double function, so. Note: The bakery's name "Dupont avec un Thé" (Dupont with a tea) is a play of words in ref. of the Tintin comics' characters, the twink policemen "DuponT" & "DuponD" because in French "T" and "thé" (tea, so) have exactly the same pronunciation. Dupont (or Dupond) is one of the most used names in France, a bit like "Doe" for Anglo-Saxon.
@@LetsChillPageSalut LCP ! Ton explication sur les Dupon(td) et le sens humoristique du nom de cette Pâtisserie est excellente ! Bien que je ne sois pas certain que Charlie connaisse Tintin, mais qui sait ? Par contre je n'ai jamais su d'où venait ce mythe du "Dupont" Français qui correspondrait au "Smith" Anglo-saxon, au "Da Silva" Portugais ou au "Müller" Allemand ! En effet, à 68 ans je n'ai jamais connu, croisé, ou même entendu parler d'un Français portant ce patronyme, excepté l'ancien danseur étoile Patrick Dupont, contrairement à des "Duval", des "Martin" ou des "Lefèvre". Mais Hergé avait certainement des raisons de le croire ! Désolé pour cette digression n'ayant rien à voir avec la Galette des Rois. Donc à ce propos cela dépend peut-être des régions, mais il y a des années qu'à Paris ou dans sa banlieue je n'ai vu de couronnes argentées de Reine lors de l'achat d'une Galette. Il est peut-être devenu trop machiste de désigner sa Reine une fois devenu Roi de la tablée ? (Surtout en cette époque de Wokisme exacerbé... 😉)
Je suis étonnée de voir que personne (mais bon, je n'ai pas lu tous les commentaires bien sûr !) ne parle des collections de fèves. C'est très courant et les industriels comme les😮 boulangers jouent là-dessus en proposant de nouvelles collections chaque année, un peu comme dans la mode, en donnant généralement un thème avec 5 ou 6 fèves déclinées sur ce thème ( par exemple j'ai mangé une galette cette année avec une fève sur le thème du sport, mais ça peut être très varié, comme par exemple des personnages de Disney, des signes du zodiaque, des animaux, des représentations de métiers ou de monuments, etc. Quand il y a des vide-greniers, généralement l'été, les gens en ont souvent à vendre pour environ 30 cents pièce.
il faut aussi dire une certaine perte de l'envie de collectionner , les collectionneur de timbres disparaissent , moi , j'ai une collection de timbre , valeur sur le tarif yver et Tellier de 2016 = plus de 4000 euros , en 2025 , à peine 1/10eme !! le placement dans les timbres est devenu ridicule ! les pin's ont eux aussi disparu , ceux des portes clés idem , etc ............ les jeunes d'aujourd'hui s'intéressent à pas grand chose d'intelligent : smartphone , ordinateur , console de jeux , alcool , tabac et pas grand chose d'autres , je suis sur qu'aucun n'a ouvert un livre , l'aura lu jusqu'au bout et pourra expliquer ce livre ! j'étais gosse , je lisais tout les livres sur la seconde guerre mondiale de la collection bleue " j'ai lu " , des écrivains comme A E VAN VOGT , H P LOVECRAFT ou ISAAC ASIMOV !! eux , à la rigueur , lisent des saloperies de manga's à la con !! bd nul à chier !
@@LOLOVAL-os3pq c'est vraie que les collection cité on pas mal disparu j'ai gardée celle de pins de mon grand père de mon côté j'ai garder toute les fèves depuis enfants mais les collection en question je ne les vois plus aussi souvent qu'avant dans les trocs
13:45 “Dorure” in pastry making refers to an egg wash-commonly a mixture of beaten egg (whole, yolk, or white) and sometimes milk or water. It is brushed onto the surface of pastries (such as pies, galettes, or breads) before baking. This egg wash creates a golden, glossy finish once the pastry is baked
VERY strong tradition. Almost every day of january, someone brings a galette des rois at work and share it with colleagues. In this case, the King is entitled to bring the next galette.
We have this tradition in the U.S., too. This is like the King's Cake eaten in New Orleans between Jan. 6 and Mardi Gras Day. The cake is traditionally decorated with purple yellow and green, the colors of Mardi Gras. Usually, a little plastic baby doll is baked into the cake. Not surprising since there is such a strong French influence there.
There are also different kinds of Galettes. In the South of France (Provence), where I grew up, we have the Gâteau de Rois. It's basically a brioche flavoured with orange blossom water and with candied fruits inside and on the top of it and granulated sugar. Personally, it's my favourite.
Around Besançon we have a local galette, galette comtoise, made out a choux pastry base with orange flower water. Flat, less fatty, it's better as we eat it all along January !
The normal proportion is 1/3 butter 2/3 dough. Inverted puff pastry is, well, inverted proportion: 2/3 butter 1/3 dough. It's quite rich, to be honest, but man it is delicious!
Galette des Rois is a nice thing to try when you visit France, but it's available only at this period of the year. If you buy one cold, just try to heat in hoven a little. You also need to try the "Kouign Aman" 😅 I go from Paris when I live in France to Saint- Malo near 500 km for Galettes Bretonnes and Kouign Aman, eve. If you can found excellent ones in Paris now... France have incredible pastery... I'll return in one month to visit my french house after near 2y, I'm hungry 😂
This tradition of "the winner pays next years' feast" still survives in the Eurovision contest where the winning has to organise the next years' contest. Which costs a fortune so some countries don't want to win at all (without wanting to admit it) and send absolute horrors as contestants. Sometimes their plan backfires.
You are the king for the day by having the fève (a porcelain figurine that many collect), and you wear a paper crown sold with the cake. There is also the tradition of giving the crown to someone to choose their queen in some regions.
At my old workplace the boss would bring the first galette right after the New Year, to share among the team. The one drawing the charm (nowadays usually a small porcelain figurine) would bring the next one, and so on until the end of January. A yummy team building tradition!
I'm French and we did eat the Galette des Rois every year during my childhood but it was much more simple than some family traditions I see in the comments here. My mom or dad simply cut the galette and everyone got a slice. The one who found the porcelain charm got to wear the golden paper crown for the day… Also my mom followed a different recipe for the filling and it included a bit of coconut flakes and a very thin layer of dark chocolate and it was soooo delicious ^^ In comparison, I never really liked the taste of the classic frangipane filling…
for you question about the pronounciation, roi used to be written and pronounced as roy (\ʁwa.j\), derived from royaume (kingdom), but the \.j\ got erased. And in french the R are pronounced with a dry sound from the back of the throat (\ʁ\ in phonetic alphabet), instead of rolling it like the spanish Also, we have 2 cakes for this celebration, the galette, which is puff pastry filled with frangipane (almond cream (almond powder, egg sugar and flour) and pastry cream, you can tell industrial galettes because they often only use almond cream) and the gateau, which is a round brioche with confied fruits and sugar rocks on top. The galette originates from Paris and is also used in belgium and the gateau is from the south and used in spain.
In Franche-Comté we have the specific galette des rois called the galette comtoise or Galette des rois franc comtoise It's my favorite version not too dry and throat strangling like the dry classic galette des rois! 😂
roi is pronounced "rwa" even in plural form "rois" is still "rwa" In french, we usually don't pronounce the last letter of words. "oi" is always pronounced "wa" in France
In Mexico, and other Latin American countries we have the same tradition called "Rosca de Reyes". Finding the plastic baby figurine in your piece of the cake is met with glee from the other guests as it means that you have to provide the tamales on Día de la Candelaria (Candlemas). It's celebrated in every family and also in offices with your co-workers.
@@BonjourCharlie It's celebrated in many many Europen countries, French people tend to be a bit francocentric. There are many different kinds of cakes in Europe and in Spain the kings day is almost bigger than Christmas.
You should watch a video about " Pâte feuilletée " to understand how they do the dough with layers and butter. It's very difficult to make. And you'll see why the dough is not flat anymore after being in the oven.
Ce n'est pas la fève que j'ai peur d'avaler mais la galette entière, c'est tellement bon ! Charlie, si tu veux ramener une galette aux US, écoute bien la recette de la pâtissière et fais en la démonstration à tes amis outre-Atlantique ... ça sera la meilleure pub que tu pourras nous faire ! Merci d'avance.
We do this in Belgium too. In Flemish it's called "3 koningen taart" (=3 king's cake). They either hide a little stone figure or charm in it or a dry bean. You would also get a paper crown when you find the charm and that makes you king or queen for the day. But the last years it has gone out of fashion a bit, in my region anyway. You used to see the king's cake in every bakery and in every bakery section in supermarkets but nowadays I see it less and less.
For the galette, she turns it around when doing her design. What she puts on top is eggs to make it shiny, possibly with a sugar syrup too. When I was a kid in France in the 80’s, there is a feve (charm) and a crown when you become the king or queen of the day and get to wear the cool cardboard made shiny crown. For the pronunciation, oi makes a wooa sound. It is also important to pronounce these T in galette. For meanings, in my family it is always about the arrival of the 3 wise men or kings (you know, it took them a while to arrive)😅
The galette is an excuse to unite familly and friends during the whole month of january. It is very pleasant. If there are kidds they hide under the table while the adults slice the cake. The kidd say the name of person to get the next part of cake....it makes january a very nice and cozy month...
I 've eaten in Capetown one "galette des rois" and one "gâteau des rois" with confied fruits topping (cake of the kings). Usually eaten in France with frozen temperatures and some cider with it. In Capetown the temperature was over 35 °C.... My south african friends son was a toddler and forcibly became the king . It means he found the charm inside the cake....
The tradition goes further in France, during the whole month of January there are "galettes" invitations, it's in companies, hospitals, administrations, politicians also invite people who can help them... There are also "snack" meetings for children. In general, the galette is served with champagne, clairette or cider.
The galette rises a little bit like a controlled soufflé. I'm not a huge fan of frangipane cream, so I usually take the apple sauce galettes. Fragipane quality is very important, sometimes it's just too heavy, when it's good, it can be delicious.
Collecting lucky charms is quite common in France and even if you don't collect them, it's always a pleasure to discover what the pastry chefs have in store for us each year regarding these little porcelain figurines.
Alors la tradition dans les familles françaises est de choisir le plus jeune pour le mettre sous la table et de lui demander pour qui est chaque part, c'est le symbole de la main innocente. Celui qui tombe sur la fève devient le roi, mais ce n'est pas fini, il doit par la suite Choisir sa reine, c'est pour cela que quand tu achètes une galette des rois, il y a deux couronnes. A l'origine, la fève était un haricot, car c'était ce qu'il y avait de moins cher. Hello, so the tradition in French families is to choose the youngest to put him under the table and ask him who each part is, it’s the symbol of the innocent hand. The one who falls on the bean becomes the king, but it is not finished, he must subsequently Choose your queen, that’s why when you buy a cake of kings, there are two crowns. Originally, the bean was a bean because it was the cheapest .
'oi' in French reads 'wa', 'ou' reads 'ew' or 'ue' like in duesday or 'wo' like in 'two'. The lady speaking at 5:47 has a purfect French procnounciation
The lady explained that everyone in France has got a galette with a charm in it nowadays, except in the Élysée's palace, where live the president of République française.
6:32 France’s history and political structure get very confusing after the Revolution. Between Republics, return to monarchy, then empires, constitutional monarchy to end on Republics. Today, France is led by an elected Président and the government by the Prime minister he puts in place (which can be replaced any time during the president’s term or ousted).
We usually didn't have the galette des rois in my family, mainly because we didn't really cared about the tradition, and it carried out in my adulthood. The rare times I got to eat one, I never got the charm, until this year... I had to wait 32 years and a dinner with the family of one of my best friends from mainland France (I live on La Réunion, a French island east of Madagascar) visiting the island for me to get the charm, it looks like what is supposedly the virgin Mary holding an ostrich egg or something, I can't quite see what it is X)
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Dude, make one it's easy and frankly it's delicious 😋 You buy some puff pastry, find a good recipe for the filling and follow the steps. Really it's super easy and much cheaper than the ones they sell in France, i promise you that (I'm French so i know😂) !
Hi Charlie, and thanks for your coms ! About the Galette, in this Pastry they are magnificent, but it's a pity that Rochelle didn't talk about the most important thing in this French tradition during all January : the one that "falls" on the porcelaine bean, (Rarely as huge as those in the video, otherwise the knife risks touching it when cutting...) becomes the King, and must then wear a shiny crown made of golden cardboard ! A few years ago, the one who had the bean and wore the golden crown had to designate his Queen, a girl around the table, and she then put a silver crown on her head. But the tradition has been lost and nowadays when you buy a galette, you only have a golden crown for the King. Charlie, you can look on Google what these beautiful cardboards crowns of "Galettes des Rois" look like ! (P.S : "ROI" is pronouced "RWHA", even in the plural with an "S' at the end... 🤗)
Hi, so it's a she "la galette" so pronouncing as a roman 'et' sound, and we have 2 types of galettes, really (frangipane mostly, and in some parts of france, it's more like a brioche with candied fruits). Today, we also don't wait the next year, we would do a new meal the next week or so, several times for up to a month or so ahah
@@Eldiran1 ahah nice, I had no idea :) But this one looks like plain dough, nothing in it apart from orange zest... I mean I was grouping everything almond based for the frangipane into one, and technically there isn't even frangipane in this one, so I'll give you that one, but I need to try it one day before I can say I'm convinced :p
@@maxxie84 Most french prefer the frangipane one, but for me it's childhood so i'm not objective. (and i feel franc-comtois before french ) I like the two but you generaly can find the the frangipane one and the comtoise one on every bakery here. Also the galette comtoise are cheaper, and it's something to take into consideration.
@@Eldiran1 ok I understand. I mean I live abroad for over 10 years now so I have been making my own galettes (it's also super easy and cheap, and better, wen you do it yourself eheh). But I totally agree with the notion that nostalgia makes the whole thing much better :)
The Galette des Rois is made with puff pastry, the same as for croissants. Raw it is flat, cooked it swells, browns and shows its multiple layers. Personally I don't know how to make it (and it takes a lot of time), I buy it ready-made. And you can also find frangipane already made in the supermarket, to make Galettes des rois all year round if you want.^^
One of the greatest delights of french pastry...I'm regretting the Chritmas Yule logs made of génoise and praliné butter cream, YUM, but I've got the galette des rois...I simply find the "King making" tradition a bit tedious, but it's OK. About "OI" been pronounced "WAH" in French...First it was pronounced correctly "O-EE", during the Roman Empire, but very quickly it became "OO-AY" or "W-AY" ("AY" isn't exactly the French sound, but you don't have the "é" in American English)...In Paris "WAY" became "WAH" and that's it Parisian dialect became the French language and you've got a "WAH" where you had a "O-EE" 20 centuries or so before.
Oh ye of little faith, lol. No, when things are this old, they rarely go that sinister. You're either the one to pay for something or the one who has tricks played on you. That's how far it goes as a norm. I don't know how hold this tradition is, but in Sweden, for the Christmas dinner, we usually have a rice pudding/ris a la Malta as dessert. We stick a peeled almond in there. (Scalded and peeled because then it's pale and blends in with the porridge. Much harder to spot.) The one who gets the almond wins. So it's similar to this.
We have this in Belgium to we call it 3 koningen taart from the kings whom visited Jezus. We eat it on the 6th of January and there is indeed a lucky charm in it. In the old days they put a hardened bean in it as lucky charm these days it are smal stone statues. There is a paper crown in the box around the pie and the one whom gets te lucky charm in his piece gets the crown and be king for the day. I have one standing in the kitchen for tomorrow ready to be eaten and to crown the king of our house tomorrow.
About galette des rois of Palais de l'Élysée, since us french are not under a monarchy, it has been decided that la galette should not have a charm since it represent monarchy so against the political system. As for us, citizens, we don't care. It's a family tradition, not politics especially with kids. They just want to enjoy food, charm, a shiny crown (depend of the kid, my 4 years old cousin is only interested about the charm to add to his collection 😅)
how to pronunce Galette des rois.... GA-leh-teu deh RRou-ahh time to brush also History classes ruclips.net/video/EYlqUOPMfUU/видео.html, but seriously thank you for sharing our historical customs et history. Nothing sinister about the beans on the contrary, in Antique Rome the slave was king for a day.... the only avoidance to get the bean was for not to host the banquet for all the next year.... After the French Revolution anything about monarchy was prohibited socially, it was a time when no beans are included in order for one not to be a King ou Queen of the day. It is such a wonderful pastry delight. Here in Quebec it is still celebrated by many, a link to our ancestral customs from New France and the old Continent. Yes the pastry is already laminated for the demonstration. It is an eggwash she brushes on the pastry before going in the oven. here,s a great recipe video on how to make it with subs in english ruclips.net/video/08pfhI4mGzY/видео.html
There are many illogical rules in French. Oi is pronounced « oua » (ou being pronounced u) but it is relatively recent (two centuries). The king, le roi or le roy (old French) was pronounced roué. It became roua, but the writing didn’t change. As you may see, I have four illogical pronounciation rules in my first name : François.
Il y a plusieurs origines a la galette des rois , pour certains c est religieux,pour certains c est Romain,et pour certains c est paîens la fête du solcice le renouveau,le retour jours plus longs qui annoncent le printemps.
This is a time you say the Ts in galette, lol, gotta love French, lol. And roi is closer to sounding like raw than roy. Galette des Roi is for ALL of January in my opinion, lol, since I'm not religious. Though I must admit I prefer a brioche de rois which is closer to the New Oleans kings cake, kinda
I made my galette des rois today and I'll be making one every sunday until the end of january. it's a french catholic tradition. in my galete des rois I put what is called a porcelain bean. And by family tradition, I put a little gold nugget in the galette when one of my children had his first child the year before ^^.
@HappyCulteurs he bien si,sous les romains,au moment des saturnales les maitres partageaient un galette avec leurs esclaves et si un es clave avait la fève il de venait roi pour la journée et pouvait faire ce qu'il voulait
The Galette des Rois is eaten on Epiphany Day. Epiphany (January 6) is a Christian holiday which marks the arrival of the Three Wise Men who came to see and honor Jesus. If you have a nativity scene under the tree, the Three Wise Men must only arrive on January 6 to Jesus. For the rest, the other comments have been complete, there are several varieties of galettes des rois depending on the region, I love the classic with frangipane or Comtoise which is lighter.It's expensive because almonds are expensive and frangipane is made from almonds.
Your confused by the pronunciation of "rois" in "galette des rois" and it's normal because you don't know French, and in French there is a huge nomber of digraphs (when two letters are used to represent a completely different sound) and even trigraphs. For exemple in English there is "oo" which isn't pronounced as if it was two "o" one after the other, or "ph" which is pronounced like "f". In french there is also "ph" which is pronounced like "f", and to come back at "rois", "oi" is also a digraph and is pronounced like "wa" in wagon (in the english pronounciation). The "s" of "rois" is the mark of the plural, so in the singular form it's "roi", and it isn"t pronouced. Some other digraphs in French, but not all, far from it are : "ch" which is pronounced like "sh" in sheep "ou" which is pronounced like "oo" in english "oui" (yes in French) witch is pronounced "wi" like in will "ai" and "ei" which are pronounced like the "e" in America. I must precise that sometimes "ai" is pronounced slightly differently, but if you not used to French I doubt you will hear the difference. "au" and "eau" which are pronounced like o. There is also slight differences between "o", "au" and "eau" but as above, I doubt you can hear the difference at the beginning. At the end of a word "et", "ez", "er" and "es" are pronounced like "e" in bed, like in "des" And to finish to explain how to read "galette des rois", the French "e" is pronounced by default like the "e" in "the word". And when there is two consonnants behind like the first "e" in "galette", it's pronnounced like the "e" of bed. It aslo the pronounciation of "è" and "ê". "é" is slightly different and I can't find a good example in english, but it's the sound /e/ in IPA code (number 302)
epiphanie is the day teh 3 kings reached new born jesus. therefore the cake of the kings (rois). nowadays you are the king again (no risk of getting your head choped away) we still do it with my work colleagues, the one that gets the charm has to make the next cake and wear his crown teh complete day at work even in front of the customer. 3 years ago got savage we stoped the cakes by mid march ...
Since you're into French food, Charlie, you might like to react on this: "France's Gourmet School Lunches" - CBS In the USA, you seem to be waging a permanent war on (good) food. Though in Europe and the rest of the world we're bombarded with the US junk "food" brands invading us more and more, I like to think that we are resisting as best as we can!
Mettez une fève dans votre porte monnaie et celui-ci ne sera jamais vide. (même si ce n'est que 1 cts !). Ce n'est que superstition mais le mien n'a jamais été à 0 depuis j'ai ma fève dedans !
R is silent in French the oi is pronounced like w as in wa. When you say the French alphabet R is pronounced as air. The letters look the same but some of the alphabet is pronounced differently. e is pronounced ew and i is pronounced e.
I am agreably surprise. I was thinking Americans were against everything french. When I did my road trip USA ( wich after I decided to never get back, not used to have religion pressure and guns pointed at me) so I was in Louisiana and a police officer stop me for nothing and asked my paper, He look at me and said WTF is Quebec and where it is? I said it's a french province up MAine. He answer that he never heard of that and he let me go after a few questions. In those situation I keep a very strong french accent. And I was surround by so many homeless every time I stop to walk or siting to eat I feel uncomfortable most of the time. I had to watch my maps in public toilet to not look like a tourist. The place where I feel OK were in some national parks and museums.
France is no longer a kingdom, even if there were attempts to bring back the monarchy after the revolution with Louis 18 and Charles 10 if I remember correctly. But with the different revolutions and constitutions, attempts at empire and attempts to return to the monarchy, we are at the 5th Republic with a President of the Republic and a Prime Minister to divide the executive power. Some political parties want to move to the 6th Republic and change the constitution which they find too old and no more adapted to today's needs.
like not knowing about the galette des rois is obviously totaly normal :) but not knowing france has a president and not a king or not "prime minister type thing" (i guess like germany ?) dude so american sorry for that one
That’s not true, it was written in 1787 while France was very much still a Kingdom. The first French Republic was founded in 1792. The Declaration of Independence (4th of July) was passed in 1776. It’s the Kingdom of France that helped americans secede. Donc, non.
This tradition is not (just) French, many European countries celebrate the 6th of January. If I'm not mistaken, people in Spain open their presents on the 6th and not Christmas. In Germany, a group of three kings visits every house and blesses it, in Switzerland there are also cakes (in the French speaking part it's also a Galette and in the German speaking part it's a brioche cake; both contain a small figurine and you get to wear acrown). They also celebrate it in Italy. In France they have two different cakes btw, the Galette and a orange infused cake in the south. It's very French thing to make things out to be just French, they are not very objective in these regards. "La grande nation" is very francocentric still.
You are a french hater ? It's about the french tradition in France. Not about the tradition in general. French people do not pretend it's only a french thing.
@ You know very well that the way they talk about it makes it seem like it was a French tradition and only just that when in reality many cultures and countries have this exact tradition. It did not even originate in France. An American wouldn’t know this and watching this video, clearly now he thinks that this is just French and done in France. I have no problem with France it French people but this documentary is just a little miss-leading in that regard.
And? It's just a documentary from a French broadcaster, talking about the French version of this tradition, and the way it's celebrated here, that's all. At no point do they say that it's only French or that it wouldn't exist in other countries. If a German broadcaster made the same documentary, they would also focus on their own culture, they wouldn't waste 5 minutes talking about the galette in France...
Epiphany is Greek word for demonstration to the whole world. The angels gave testimony to the Jews by leading the shepherds to the Baby Jesus in his manger. Later, three wisemen, Balthazar, Gaspard and Melchior came from the East to Bethlehem to adore the newborn Child. Those kings represented the Gentiles and Epiphany is this recognition of the Saviour by the non Jews. Before the revolution, January 6th was a public holiday for the Catholics to celebrate this manifestation of the Christ. And there is no celebration without something good to eat 😁 According to tradition each family had to make one extra slice « for the poor ».
All the Catholic Countries innEurope( and Québec Canada, I don’t know if US ( maybe the Spanish speaking) celebrate Epiphany by celebrating the three Kings🤴🤴🏾🤴🏿, the Orthodox Church celebrating Epiphany, by emphasizing the Baptism of Jesus Christ,
Do you never get, as many americans it seems, an epiphany ? Never heard the expression spoken by someone else around you ? And consequently never connected the dots ? 🙄
I am French but I did not know that the Epiphanies and the Galette des Rois were only a French tradition. On the other hand, I buy my galette in the supermarket because at a baker's, in the countryside it costs 40 euros for four people
Les galettes de chez Picard sont une alternative moins chère et très bonne : elles sont congelées crues donc on les fait cuire chez soi et on peut les déguster tout droit sorties du four. Elles coûtent dans les 7 ou 8 euros.
Effectivement 40 euros c'est trés cher, ici la galette chez le boulanger pâtissier 28€ pour 6 personnes je trouvais le prix élevé. Ça m'a empêché d'en acheter.
40 euros ? Where ? Impossible ! Even In Paris 40 euros for four people is impossible. Even in the more prestigious boulangerie of Paris 40 euros is for a 6 people galette des Rois. It's the most expensive you can find. In good parisian boulangerie a galette des rois for 4 people is beetween 20 and 30 euros.
@@danguid2753 C'est du pipeau ! Les galettes de grand pâtissier à Paris c'est max 40 euros pour une galette de 6 personnes. Le mec n'a même pas vérifié, il a donné un prix au pif. Dans une bonne boulangerie parisienne et je ne parle même pas des boulangeries les moins chères, une galette de 4 personnes c'est moins de 30 euros sûr et probablement qu'on en trouve entre 20 et 25 euros max
No there isn't king anymore in our coutry, today we have a gay man as president with a trans man ( Macron and his "wife " Brigitte or Jean michel some would called her but that is another story) 🤣
I was in a boarding school in Amiens with Brigitte Trogneux/Macron so stop this stupid gossip . There was a trial and the people diffusing this crap were condemned.
Please don't spread stupid conspiracy theories here. This trend of claiming that every famous woman is trans is ridiculous. You don't even know what the words you use mean. "Trans man" means someone born female who live as a man.
If you want a very good galette des rois, make it yourself... it's simple to make and it's as good as in a bakery. The only difference will be the puff pastry which the bakers do a little better. But inside the pancake the "frangipane" will be as good as in a bakery, and above all: much less expensive! In a bakery 35 euros for 5 or 6 people, at home less than 10 euros...
révolution Française = 1789 , le roi et la reine ont été guillotinés en 1793 ! pourquoi la révolution , parce que le peuple mourrait de faim , pendant ce temps , le roi et sa reine , et le reste de la noblesse festoyer , manger à leur faim !! il faut préciser que les récoltes en 1788 ont été catastrophiques , et une météo épouvantable ! la noblesse et l'église catholique vivaient dans l'oppulence alors que le peuple n'avait pas assez d'argent pour se nourrir , les prix des productions agricoles ayant en plus augmentés , beaucoup de personne ne travaillait pas , donc un niveau de vie très faible , d'où le mécontentement général de la population !
One year I bought a large galette de roi to take in to work. The person who got the charm was our only French member of staff. She got quite tearful, as she'd not had galette de roi in about a decade. She'd been in the UK about 20 years.
En France tout est une excellente occasion de bien manger et profiter de la vie.
on va se priver tiens ! 😄
We often eat the galette des rois on the Sunday closest to December 6th, which is today because the whole family is there. It's a beautiful tradition for me. The cake is sold with two crowns. We cut the cake and the youngest child sits under the table and tells us who to give each slice to. The person who has the bean (porcelain charm) is a king or queen and has a crown. In turn, she chooses a king or queen and gives him or her the crown. Traditionally, the galette is filled either with a frangipane cream made from almond dough as in the video, or with applesauce. Other toppings can also be found. It's true that the galettes are much better in pastry shops than in supermarkets. This galette is expensive but you can find cheaper ones even in good pastry shops. The cakes are on sale throughout the month of January.
It is eaten warm. If it is cold, it is put in the oven before eating it.
sounds yummy!
@@BonjourCharlie yes but it's also the whole ritual that I like
As you say, most of the time, it's the youngest child who goes under the table and blindly designates who will have the next piece of cake.
In most families, it is also the one who will have the charm, because above the table, without him/her knowing it, the adults look for which piece the charm is in and give this piece to the one who is under the table.
Going under the table has a double function, so.
Note: The bakery's name "Dupont avec un Thé" (Dupont with a tea) is a play of words in ref. of the Tintin comics' characters, the twink policemen "DuponT" & "DuponD" because in French "T" and "thé" (tea, so) have exactly the same pronunciation.
Dupont (or Dupond) is one of the most used names in France, a bit like "Doe" for Anglo-Saxon.
@@LetsChillPageSalut LCP ! Ton explication sur les Dupon(td) et le sens humoristique du nom de cette Pâtisserie est excellente ! Bien que je ne sois pas certain que Charlie connaisse Tintin, mais qui sait ? Par contre je n'ai jamais su d'où venait ce mythe du "Dupont" Français qui correspondrait au "Smith" Anglo-saxon, au "Da Silva" Portugais ou au "Müller" Allemand ! En effet, à 68 ans je n'ai jamais connu, croisé, ou même entendu parler d'un Français portant ce patronyme, excepté l'ancien danseur étoile Patrick Dupont, contrairement à des "Duval", des "Martin" ou des "Lefèvre". Mais Hergé avait certainement des raisons de le croire ! Désolé pour cette digression n'ayant rien à voir avec la Galette des Rois. Donc à ce propos cela dépend peut-être des régions, mais il y a des années qu'à Paris ou dans sa banlieue je n'ai vu de couronnes argentées de Reine lors de l'achat d'une Galette. Il est peut-être devenu trop machiste de désigner sa Reine une fois devenu Roi de la tablée ? (Surtout en cette époque de Wokisme exacerbé... 😉)
Je suis étonnée de voir que personne (mais bon, je n'ai pas lu tous les commentaires bien sûr !) ne parle des collections de fèves. C'est très courant et les industriels comme les😮 boulangers jouent là-dessus en proposant de nouvelles collections chaque année, un peu comme dans la mode, en donnant généralement un thème avec 5 ou 6 fèves déclinées sur ce thème ( par exemple j'ai mangé une galette cette année avec une fève sur le thème du sport, mais ça peut être très varié, comme par exemple des personnages de Disney, des signes du zodiaque, des animaux, des représentations de métiers ou de monuments, etc. Quand il y a des vide-greniers, généralement l'été, les gens en ont souvent à vendre pour environ 30 cents pièce.
Le terme pour désignier la collection de fève de galette des rois est la fabophilie. Le collectionneur est donc un fabophile.
il faut aussi dire une certaine perte de l'envie de collectionner , les collectionneur de timbres disparaissent , moi , j'ai une collection de timbre , valeur sur le tarif yver et Tellier de 2016 = plus de 4000 euros , en 2025 , à peine 1/10eme !! le placement dans les timbres est devenu ridicule ! les pin's ont eux aussi disparu , ceux des portes clés idem , etc ............ les jeunes d'aujourd'hui s'intéressent à pas grand chose d'intelligent : smartphone , ordinateur , console de jeux , alcool , tabac et pas grand chose d'autres , je suis sur qu'aucun n'a ouvert un livre , l'aura lu jusqu'au bout et pourra expliquer ce livre ! j'étais gosse , je lisais tout les livres sur la seconde guerre mondiale de la collection bleue " j'ai lu " , des écrivains comme A E VAN VOGT , H P LOVECRAFT ou ISAAC ASIMOV !! eux , à la rigueur , lisent des saloperies de manga's à la con !! bd nul à chier !
@@LOLOVAL-os3pq c'est vraie que les collection cité on pas mal disparu j'ai gardée celle de pins de mon grand père de mon côté j'ai garder toute les fèves depuis enfants mais les collection en question je ne les vois plus aussi souvent qu'avant dans les trocs
13:45 “Dorure” in pastry making refers to an egg wash-commonly a mixture of beaten egg (whole, yolk, or white) and sometimes milk or water. It is brushed onto the surface of pastries (such as pies, galettes, or breads) before baking. This egg wash creates a golden, glossy finish once the pastry is baked
VERY strong tradition.
Almost every day of january, someone brings a galette des rois at work and share it with colleagues.
In this case, the King is entitled to bring the next galette.
On est le 9 janvier et j'en suis déjà à ma 3 ème galette des rois...j'en peux plus 😂😅
Gourmand
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moi après 9 heures , j'en suis à ma 3eme pastéque , j'en peux plus !!
et dire qu'il y a un abruti qui à dit qu'il fallait manger 5 fruits ou légumes par jour , moi , je cale à ma 3eme pastéque , c'est trop dur !!
@@LOLOVAL-os3pq Ça doit surtout être très mou du coup...
We have this tradition in the U.S., too. This is like the King's Cake eaten in New Orleans between Jan. 6 and Mardi Gras Day. The cake is traditionally decorated with purple yellow and green, the colors of Mardi Gras. Usually, a little plastic baby doll is baked into the cake. Not surprising since there is such a strong French influence there.
French tradition imported from the 17th century and the french occupation of Louisiana until early the XIXth century...
Indeed ! It's good to see that lovely traditions like this have persisted over time in your country too!
Funny, because the Québécois on the other end of the continent don't have this tradition anymore...
Nouvelle Orléans c est la france😊
There are also different kinds of Galettes. In the South of France (Provence), where I grew up, we have the Gâteau de Rois. It's basically a brioche flavoured with orange blossom water and with candied fruits inside and on the top of it and granulated sugar. Personally, it's my favourite.
la couronne is the best, team fruits confis here
I'm from Provence too, I've always hated this. I can eventually eat it if I remove all fruits confis and deep it it chocolate milk
Around Besançon we have a local galette, galette comtoise, made out a choux pastry base with orange flower water. Flat, less fatty, it's better as we eat it all along January !
I was waiting for someone to comment about this! I am from the southeast near Nice and it's my favourite!!
Je préfère le gâteau des rois pour ma part. Je n’aime pas la frangipane (mais je le regrette) car je trouve ça écœurant
The normal proportion is 1/3 butter 2/3 dough. Inverted puff pastry is, well, inverted proportion: 2/3 butter 1/3 dough. It's quite rich, to be honest, but man it is delicious!
the "oi" sound in French is like saying "wua" in English, hope it helps.
Galette des Rois is a nice thing to try when you visit France, but it's available only at this period of the year. If you buy one cold, just try to heat in hoven a little. You also need to try the "Kouign Aman" 😅 I go from Paris when I live in France to Saint- Malo near 500 km for Galettes Bretonnes and Kouign Aman, eve. If you can found excellent ones in Paris now... France have incredible pastery... I'll return in one month to visit my french house after near 2y, I'm hungry 😂
This tradition of "the winner pays next years' feast" still survives in the Eurovision contest where the winning has to organise the next years' contest. Which costs a fortune so some countries don't want to win at all (without wanting to admit it) and send absolute horrors as contestants. Sometimes their plan backfires.
You are the king for the day by having the fève (a porcelain figurine that many collect), and you wear a paper crown sold with the cake. There is also the tradition of giving the crown to someone to choose their queen in some regions.
At my old workplace the boss would bring the first galette right after the New Year, to share among the team. The one drawing the charm (nowadays usually a small porcelain figurine) would bring the next one, and so on until the end of January. A yummy team building tradition!
I'm French and we did eat the Galette des Rois every year during my childhood but it was much more simple than some family traditions I see in the comments here. My mom or dad simply cut the galette and everyone got a slice. The one who found the porcelain charm got to wear the golden paper crown for the day…
Also my mom followed a different recipe for the filling and it included a bit of coconut flakes and a very thin layer of dark chocolate and it was soooo delicious ^^
In comparison, I never really liked the taste of the classic frangipane filling…
for you question about the pronounciation, roi used to be written and pronounced as roy (\ʁwa.j\), derived from royaume (kingdom), but the \.j\ got erased.
And in french the R are pronounced with a dry sound from the back of the throat (\ʁ\ in phonetic alphabet), instead of rolling it like the spanish
Also, we have 2 cakes for this celebration, the galette, which is puff pastry filled with frangipane (almond cream (almond powder, egg sugar and flour) and pastry cream, you can tell industrial galettes because they often only use almond cream) and the gateau, which is a round brioche with confied fruits and sugar rocks on top.
The galette originates from Paris and is also used in belgium and the gateau is from the south and used in spain.
In Franche-Comté we have the specific galette des rois called the galette comtoise or Galette des rois franc comtoise It's my favorite version not too dry and throat strangling like the dry classic galette des rois! 😂
I agree, it's excellent too!
roi is pronounced "rwa" even in plural form "rois" is still "rwa"
In french, we usually don't pronounce the last letter of words.
"oi" is always pronounced "wa" in France
In Mexico, and other Latin American countries we have the same tradition called "Rosca de Reyes". Finding the plastic baby figurine in your piece of the cake is met with glee from the other guests as it means that you have to provide the tamales on Día de la Candelaria (Candlemas). It's celebrated in every family and also in offices with your co-workers.
i wonder if it came over from Spain being next to France
@@BonjourCharlie It's celebrated in many many Europen countries, French people tend to be a bit francocentric. There are many different kinds of cakes in Europe and in Spain the kings day is almost bigger than Christmas.
But our cake is better😊
@@BonjourCharlienon non non
You should watch a video about " Pâte feuilletée " to understand how they do the dough with layers and butter. It's very difficult to make. And you'll see why the dough is not flat anymore after being in the oven.
Ce n'est pas la fève que j'ai peur d'avaler mais la galette entière, c'est tellement bon !
Charlie, si tu veux ramener une galette aux US, écoute bien la recette de la pâtissière et fais en la démonstration à tes amis outre-Atlantique ... ça sera la meilleure pub que tu pourras nous faire !
Merci d'avance.
We do this in Belgium too. In Flemish it's called "3 koningen taart" (=3 king's cake). They either hide a little stone figure or charm in it or a dry bean. You would also get a paper crown when you find the charm and that makes you king or queen for the day.
But the last years it has gone out of fashion a bit, in my region anyway. You used to see the king's cake in every bakery and in every bakery section in supermarkets but nowadays I see it less and less.
For the galette, she turns it around when doing her design. What she puts on top is eggs to make it shiny, possibly with a sugar syrup too.
When I was a kid in France in the 80’s, there is a feve (charm) and a crown when you become the king or queen of the day and get to wear the cool cardboard made shiny crown.
For the pronunciation, oi makes a wooa sound. It is also important to pronounce these T in galette.
For meanings, in my family it is always about the arrival of the 3 wise men or kings (you know, it took them a while to arrive)😅
The galette is an excuse to unite familly and friends during the whole month of january. It is very pleasant. If there are kidds they hide under the table while the adults slice the cake. The kidd say the name of person to get the next part of cake....it makes january a very nice and cozy month...
I 've eaten in Capetown one "galette des rois" and one "gâteau des rois" with confied fruits topping (cake of the kings).
Usually eaten in France with frozen temperatures and some cider with it. In Capetown the temperature was over 35 °C....
My south african friends son was a toddler and forcibly became the king . It means he found the charm inside the cake....
The tradition goes further in France, during the whole month of January there are "galettes" invitations, it's in companies, hospitals, administrations, politicians also invite people who can help them... There are also "snack" meetings for children. In general, the galette is served with champagne, clairette or cider.
The galette rises a little bit like a controlled soufflé.
I'm not a huge fan of frangipane cream, so I usually take the apple sauce galettes. Fragipane quality is very important, sometimes it's just too heavy, when it's good, it can be delicious.
Hi, I'm French, it's really excellent. I have a slight preference for the version with apple compote inside, "lighter"; I can eat more 🙂
Collecting lucky charms is quite common in France and even if you don't collect them, it's always a pleasure to discover what the pastry chefs have in store for us each year regarding these little porcelain figurines.
I haven't read all the comments but in Belgium we also have the galette des rois and as Belgium is a royalty, each galette comes with a crown.
Alors la tradition dans les familles françaises est de choisir le plus jeune pour le mettre sous la table et de lui demander pour qui est chaque part, c'est le symbole de la main innocente. Celui qui tombe sur la fève devient le roi, mais ce n'est pas fini, il doit par la suite Choisir sa reine, c'est pour cela que quand tu achètes une galette des rois, il y a deux couronnes. A l'origine, la fève était un haricot, car c'était ce qu'il y avait de moins cher.
Hello, so the tradition in French families is to choose the youngest to put him under the table and ask him who each part is, it’s the symbol of the innocent hand. The one who falls on the bean becomes the king, but it is not finished, he must subsequently Choose your queen, that’s why when you buy a cake of kings, there are two crowns. Originally, the bean was a bean because it was the cheapest .
'oi' in French reads 'wa', 'ou' reads 'ew' or 'ue' like in duesday or 'wo' like in 'two'. The lady speaking at 5:47 has a purfect French procnounciation
The lady explained that everyone in France has got a galette with a charm in it nowadays, except in the Élysée's palace, where live the president of République française.
6:32 France’s history and political structure get very confusing after the Revolution.
Between Republics, return to monarchy, then empires, constitutional monarchy to end on Republics. Today, France is led by an elected Président and the government by the Prime minister he puts in place (which can be replaced any time during the president’s term or ousted).
We usually didn't have the galette des rois in my family, mainly because we didn't really cared about the tradition, and it carried out in my adulthood. The rare times I got to eat one, I never got the charm, until this year... I had to wait 32 years and a dinner with the family of one of my best friends from mainland France (I live on La Réunion, a French island east of Madagascar) visiting the island for me to get the charm, it looks like what is supposedly the virgin Mary holding an ostrich egg or something, I can't quite see what it is X)
it's said that the "charm" is not present at the President palace (Elysée) galette. every where else, we have usually one (on big cakes).
Vous m'avez donné envie d'en acheter une autre😋!
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Dude, make one it's easy and frankly it's delicious 😋
You buy some puff pastry, find a good recipe for the filling and follow the steps.
Really it's super easy and much cheaper than the ones they sell in France, i promise you that (I'm French so i know😂) !
Hi Charlie, and thanks for your coms ! About the Galette, in this Pastry they are magnificent, but it's a pity that Rochelle didn't talk about the most important thing in this French tradition during all January : the one that "falls" on the porcelaine bean, (Rarely as huge as those in the video, otherwise the knife risks touching it when cutting...) becomes the King, and must then wear a shiny crown made of golden cardboard ! A few years ago, the one who had the bean and wore the golden crown had to designate his Queen, a girl around the table, and she then put a silver crown on her head. But the tradition has been lost and nowadays when you buy a galette, you only have a golden crown for the King. Charlie, you can look on Google what these beautiful cardboards crowns of "Galettes des Rois" look like ! (P.S : "ROI" is pronouced "RWHA", even in the plural with an "S' at the end... 🤗)
Hi, so it's a she "la galette" so pronouncing as a roman 'et' sound, and we have 2 types of galettes, really (frangipane mostly, and in some parts of france, it's more like a brioche with candied fruits). Today, we also don't wait the next year, we would do a new meal the next week or so, several times for up to a month or so ahah
To be fair, they are a third one, from franche-comté, called "galette comtoise". Check it out if you don't know about.
Comtois rend toi!...
@@Eldiran1 ahah nice, I had no idea :) But this one looks like plain dough, nothing in it apart from orange zest... I mean I was grouping everything almond based for the frangipane into one, and technically there isn't even frangipane in this one, so I'll give you that one, but I need to try it one day before I can say I'm convinced :p
@@maxxie84 Most french prefer the frangipane one, but for me it's childhood so i'm not objective. (and i feel franc-comtois before french )
I like the two but you generaly can find the the frangipane one and the comtoise one on every bakery here. Also the galette comtoise are cheaper, and it's something to take into consideration.
@@Eldiran1 ok I understand. I mean I live abroad for over 10 years now so I have been making my own galettes (it's also super easy and cheap, and better, wen you do it yourself eheh). But I totally agree with the notion that nostalgia makes the whole thing much better :)
The Galette des Rois is made with puff pastry, the same as for croissants. Raw it is flat, cooked it swells, browns and shows its multiple layers. Personally I don't know how to make it (and it takes a lot of time), I buy it ready-made. And you can also find frangipane already made in the supermarket, to make Galettes des rois all year round if you want.^^
We don't have Kings anymore but Princes, Ducs etc... are still exist ! I am from France, Savoie and we have a Prince Emmanuel-Philibert de Savoie.
One of the greatest delights of french pastry...I'm regretting the Chritmas Yule logs made of génoise and praliné butter cream, YUM, but I've got the galette des rois...I simply find the "King making" tradition a bit tedious, but it's OK.
About "OI" been pronounced "WAH" in French...First it was pronounced correctly "O-EE", during the Roman Empire, but very quickly it became "OO-AY" or "W-AY" ("AY" isn't exactly the French sound, but you don't have the "é" in American English)...In Paris "WAY" became "WAH" and that's it Parisian dialect became the French language and you've got a "WAH" where you had a "O-EE" 20 centuries or so before.
Oh ye of little faith, lol. No, when things are this old, they rarely go that sinister. You're either the one to pay for something or the one who has tricks played on you. That's how far it goes as a norm.
I don't know how hold this tradition is, but in Sweden, for the Christmas dinner, we usually have a rice pudding/ris a la Malta as dessert. We stick a peeled almond in there. (Scalded and peeled because then it's pale and blends in with the porridge. Much harder to spot.) The one who gets the almond wins. So it's similar to this.
We have this in Belgium to we call it 3 koningen taart from the kings whom visited Jezus. We eat it on the 6th of January and there is indeed a lucky charm in it. In the old days they put a hardened bean in it as lucky charm these days it are smal stone statues. There is a paper crown in the box around the pie and the one whom gets te lucky charm in his piece gets the crown and be king for the day. I have one standing in the kitchen for tomorrow ready to be eaten and to crown the king of our house tomorrow.
About galette des rois of Palais de l'Élysée, since us french are not under a monarchy, it has been decided that la galette should not have a charm since it represent monarchy so against the political system. As for us, citizens, we don't care. It's a family tradition, not politics especially with kids. They just want to enjoy food, charm, a shiny crown (depend of the kid, my 4 years old cousin is only interested about the charm to add to his collection 😅)
She glazed it with egg yolk, not butter , I think
Hundreds years ago , the word "king" was writen like that : Roy
But now, we write it like that : Roi
Merci beaucoup pour votre video.
how to pronunce Galette des rois.... GA-leh-teu deh RRou-ahh time to brush also History classes ruclips.net/video/EYlqUOPMfUU/видео.html, but seriously thank you for sharing our historical customs et history. Nothing sinister about the beans on the contrary, in Antique Rome the slave was king for a day.... the only avoidance to get the bean was for not to host the banquet for all the next year.... After the French Revolution anything about monarchy was prohibited socially, it was a time when no beans are included in order for one not to be a King ou Queen of the day. It is such a wonderful pastry delight. Here in Quebec it is still celebrated by many, a link to our ancestral customs from New France and the old Continent. Yes the pastry is already laminated for the demonstration. It is an eggwash she brushes on the pastry before going in the oven. here,s a great recipe video on how to make it with subs in english ruclips.net/video/08pfhI4mGzY/видео.html
There are many illogical rules in French.
Oi is pronounced « oua » (ou being pronounced u) but it is relatively recent (two centuries). The king, le roi or le roy (old French) was pronounced roué. It became roua, but the writing didn’t change.
As you may see, I have four illogical pronounciation rules in my first name : François.
Il y a plusieurs origines a la galette des rois , pour certains c est religieux,pour certains c est Romain,et pour certains c est paîens la fête du solcice le renouveau,le retour jours plus longs qui annoncent le printemps.
This is a time you say the Ts in galette, lol, gotta love French, lol. And roi is closer to sounding like raw than roy. Galette des Roi is for ALL of January in my opinion, lol, since I'm not religious. Though I must admit I prefer a brioche de rois which is closer to the New Oleans kings cake, kinda
I made my galette des rois today and I'll be making one every sunday until the end of january. it's a french catholic tradition. in my galete des rois I put what is called a porcelain bean. And by family tradition, I put a little gold nugget in the galette when one of my children had his first child the year before ^^.
lucky gold nugget!
@@BonjourCharlie it's the arrival of the first child and then the other children who are and make our wealth ^^.
Galette des rois comes from the romans before christianity
@@victoriajane9687 non
@HappyCulteurs he bien si,sous les romains,au moment des saturnales les maitres partageaient un galette avec leurs esclaves et si un es clave avait la fève il de venait roi pour la journée et pouvait faire ce qu'il voulait
Bonjour de France 🇨🇵
Tous les ans j'en fais une à la maison très bonne avec la fève. Et couronne
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The Galette des Rois is eaten on Epiphany Day. Epiphany (January 6) is a Christian holiday which marks the arrival of the Three Wise Men who came to see and honor Jesus. If you have a nativity scene under the tree, the Three Wise Men must only arrive on January 6 to Jesus. For the rest, the other comments have been complete, there are several varieties of galettes des rois depending on the region, I love the classic with frangipane or Comtoise which is lighter.It's expensive because almonds are expensive and frangipane is made from almonds.
I heard there's a law in the US that forbids putting anything like a fève in food.
King's cake ! King was written "roy" before! The "y" still exists in "royal"...
Your confused by the pronunciation of "rois" in "galette des rois" and it's normal because you don't know French, and in French there is a huge nomber of digraphs (when two letters are used to represent a completely different sound) and even trigraphs.
For exemple in English there is "oo" which isn't pronounced as if it was two "o" one after the other, or "ph" which is pronounced like "f".
In french there is also "ph" which is pronounced like "f", and to come back at "rois", "oi" is also a digraph and is pronounced like "wa" in wagon (in the english pronounciation). The "s" of "rois" is the mark of the plural, so in the singular form it's "roi", and it isn"t pronouced.
Some other digraphs in French, but not all, far from it are :
"ch" which is pronounced like "sh" in sheep
"ou" which is pronounced like "oo" in english
"oui" (yes in French) witch is pronounced "wi" like in will
"ai" and "ei" which are pronounced like the "e" in America. I must precise that sometimes "ai" is pronounced slightly differently, but if you not used to French I doubt you will hear the difference.
"au" and "eau" which are pronounced like o. There is also slight differences between "o", "au" and "eau" but as above, I doubt you can hear the difference at the beginning.
At the end of a word "et", "ez", "er" and "es" are pronounced like "e" in bed, like in "des"
And to finish to explain how to read "galette des rois", the French "e" is pronounced by default like the "e" in "the word". And when there is two consonnants behind like the first "e" in "galette", it's pronnounced like the "e" of bed. It aslo the pronounciation of "è" and "ê".
"é" is slightly different and I can't find a good example in english, but it's the sound /e/ in IPA code (number 302)
epiphanie is the day teh 3 kings reached new born jesus. therefore the cake of the kings (rois).
nowadays you are the king again (no risk of getting your head choped away)
we still do it with my work colleagues, the one that gets the charm has to make the next cake and wear his crown teh complete day at work even in front of the customer. 3 years ago got savage we stoped the cakes by mid march ...
Since you're into French food, Charlie, you might like to react on this: "France's Gourmet School Lunches" - CBS
In the USA, you seem to be waging a permanent war on (good) food. Though in Europe and the rest of the world we're bombarded with the US junk "food" brands invading us more and more, I like to think that we are resisting as best as we can!
galettttttte ! pronounce the t ! thank you so much les rois : the kings
you could prononce it this way " Galette des Roaa"🙏
Mettez une fève dans votre porte monnaie et celui-ci ne sera jamais vide. (même si ce n'est que 1 cts !). Ce n'est que superstition mais le mien n'a jamais été à 0 depuis j'ai ma fève dedans !
"oi" is pronounced like "wa" in french
R is silent in French the oi is pronounced like w as in wa. When you say the French alphabet R is pronounced as air. The letters look the same but some of the alphabet is pronounced differently. e is pronounced ew and i is pronounced e.
Bonjour Charlie ! C'est Charly ! ;)
Ha! My kids are Charles et Arthur… Funny.
Galette ou Gâteaux des rois c'est selon son goût.
I am agreably surprise. I was thinking Americans were against everything french. When I did my road trip USA ( wich after I decided to never get back, not used to have religion pressure and guns pointed at me) so I was in Louisiana and a police officer stop me for nothing and asked my paper, He look at me and said WTF is Quebec and where it is? I said it's a french province up MAine. He answer that he never heard of that and he let me go after a few questions. In those situation I keep a very strong french accent. And I was surround by so many homeless every time I stop to walk or siting to eat I feel uncomfortable most of the time. I had to watch my maps in public toilet to not look like a tourist. The place where I feel OK were in some national parks and museums.
"How do you get wah from oi?" Well, because it's french, and not english? ^^" Haha more seriously -oi is always pronounced -wah.
France is no longer a kingdom, even if there were attempts to bring back the monarchy after the revolution with Louis 18 and Charles 10 if I remember correctly. But with the different revolutions and constitutions, attempts at empire and attempts to return to the monarchy, we are at the 5th Republic with a President of the Republic and a Prime Minister to divide the executive power. Some political parties want to move to the 6th Republic and change the constitution which they find too old and no more adapted to today's needs.
The north and south have a different galette des rois, people collect the charms.
Cela n"existe pas aux USA ???
For the fact: "la galette des rois" maybe everyday of january.
my favorite cake !!
like not knowing about the galette des rois is obviously totaly normal :) but not knowing france has a president and not a king or not "prime minister type thing" (i guess like germany ?) dude so american sorry for that one
by the way, France is a Republic (we helped american to write their consitution after the 4th of july).
That’s not true, it was written in 1787 while France was very much still a Kingdom.
The first French Republic was founded in 1792.
The Declaration of Independence (4th of July) was passed in 1776. It’s the Kingdom of France that helped americans secede.
Donc, non.
This tradition is not (just) French, many European countries celebrate the 6th of January. If I'm not mistaken, people in Spain open their presents on the 6th and not Christmas.
In Germany, a group of three kings visits every house and blesses it, in Switzerland there are also cakes (in the French speaking part it's also a Galette and in the German speaking part it's a brioche cake; both contain a small figurine and you get to wear acrown). They also celebrate it in Italy. In France they have two different cakes btw, the Galette and a orange infused cake in the south.
It's very French thing to make things out to be just French, they are not very objective in these regards. "La grande nation" is very francocentric still.
You are a french hater ? It's about the french tradition in France. Not about the tradition in general. French people do not pretend it's only a french thing.
@ You know very well that the way they talk about it makes it seem like it was a French tradition and only just that when in reality many cultures and countries have this exact tradition. It did not even originate in France.
An American wouldn’t know this and watching this video, clearly now he thinks that this is just French and done in France. I have no problem with France it French people but this documentary is just a little miss-leading in that regard.
And? It's just a documentary from a French broadcaster, talking about the French version of this tradition, and the way it's celebrated here, that's all. At no point do they say that it's only French or that it wouldn't exist in other countries. If a German broadcaster made the same documentary, they would also focus on their own culture, they wouldn't waste 5 minutes talking about the galette in France...
In french : OI = "WA"
Roi used to be Roy in old french so your prononciation wasn't that bad ;-)
we clearly taste the difference between supermaket and bakery, only americans could not but supermaket is so dry and tasteless
Epiphany is Greek word for demonstration to the whole world.
The angels gave testimony to the Jews by leading the shepherds to the Baby Jesus in his manger. Later, three wisemen, Balthazar, Gaspard and Melchior came from the East to Bethlehem to adore the newborn Child. Those kings represented the Gentiles and Epiphany is this recognition of the Saviour by the non Jews.
Before the revolution, January 6th was a public holiday for the Catholics to celebrate this manifestation of the Christ. And there is no celebration without something good to eat 😁
According to tradition each family had to make one extra slice « for the poor ».
Roi is rwa in french because it's so, period .
Bonjour !
All the Catholic Countries innEurope( and Québec Canada, I don’t know if US ( maybe the Spanish speaking) celebrate Epiphany by celebrating the three Kings🤴🤴🏾🤴🏿, the Orthodox Church celebrating Epiphany, by emphasizing the Baptism of Jesus Christ,
Do you never get, as many americans it seems, an epiphany ? Never heard the expression spoken by someone else around you ? And consequently never connected the dots ?
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Pas étonnant que ses gâteaux soient si chers si elle les cuit un a un
Pronounce "Galett day Roa"
I love these cakes.
bonjour mon chou
THE FRANCE is a democraty not at monarchy
lol
A kings' pie is an odd tradition for a country that once beheaded its king and queen.
@@flitsertheo We love kings (in other countries...)
La France est une république
@@flitsertheo it's a reference to the king-mage of Epiphany... don't be dumb
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I am French but I did not know that the Epiphanies and the Galette des Rois were only a French tradition. On the other hand, I buy my galette in the supermarket because at a baker's, in the countryside it costs 40 euros for four people
Les galettes de chez Picard sont une alternative moins chère et très bonne : elles sont congelées crues donc on les fait cuire chez soi et on peut les déguster tout droit sorties du four. Elles coûtent dans les 7 ou 8 euros.
Effectivement 40 euros c'est trés cher, ici la galette chez le boulanger pâtissier 28€ pour 6 personnes je trouvais le prix élevé. Ça m'a empêché d'en acheter.
40 euros ? Where ? Impossible ! Even In Paris 40 euros for four people is impossible. Even in the more prestigious boulangerie of Paris 40 euros is for a 6 people galette des Rois. It's the most expensive you can find. In good parisian boulangerie a galette des rois for 4 people is beetween 20 and 30 euros.
@@danguid2753 C'est du pipeau ! Les galettes de grand pâtissier à Paris c'est max 40 euros pour une galette de 6 personnes. Le mec n'a même pas vérifié, il a donné un prix au pif. Dans une bonne boulangerie parisienne et je ne parle même pas des boulangeries les moins chères, une galette de 4 personnes c'est moins de 30 euros sûr et probablement qu'on en trouve entre 20 et 25 euros max
I take a galette comtoise, they are cheaper and it's regional. The frangipane one is great too of course but a bit pricy.
Please improve your french prononciation
No there isn't king anymore in our coutry, today we have a gay man as president with a trans man ( Macron and his "wife " Brigitte or Jean michel some would called her but that is another story) 🤣
I was in a boarding school in Amiens with Brigitte Trogneux/Macron so stop this stupid gossip . There was a trial and the people diffusing this crap were condemned.
Please don't spread stupid conspiracy theories here. This trend of claiming that every famous woman is trans is ridiculous.
You don't even know what the words you use mean. "Trans man" means someone born female who live as a man.
If you want a very good galette des rois, make it yourself... it's simple to make and it's as good as in a bakery.
The only difference will be the puff pastry which the bakers do a little better.
But inside the pancake the "frangipane" will be as good as in a bakery, and above all: much less expensive! In a bakery 35 euros for 5 or 6 people, at home less than 10 euros...
Didn't knew that France has a culture and traditions, they are kind of bland and a boring people. Thanks for the video.
Charming.
How stupid !!!
révolution Française = 1789 , le roi et la reine ont été guillotinés en 1793 ! pourquoi la révolution , parce que le peuple mourrait de faim , pendant ce temps , le roi et sa reine , et le reste de la noblesse festoyer , manger à leur faim !! il faut préciser que les récoltes en 1788 ont été catastrophiques , et une météo épouvantable ! la noblesse et l'église catholique vivaient dans l'oppulence alors que le peuple n'avait pas assez d'argent pour se nourrir , les prix des productions agricoles ayant en plus augmentés , beaucoup de personne ne travaillait pas , donc un niveau de vie très faible , d'où le mécontentement général de la population !