Bakery Street Snack · Pork Cracklings Pastry
Taillé aux greubons
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The 'greubons' folded through the dough are crispy leftover pork cracklings from rendering lard — a savory pastry built entirely around a butchery byproduct.
A rich, buttery pastry dough is studded with greubons — crisp bits of rendered pork fat — rolled and baked into a flat, flaky square. Bakeries in Vaud and across French-speaking Switzerland sell it as a savory grab-and-go snack, often still warm from the oven.
Why it's made this way: A specialty of the canton of Vaud, it is a classic example of nose-to-tail thrift, turning a rendering byproduct into a bakery staple.
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