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The pain à la grecque (literally "Greek bread") is a typical Brussels pastry consisting of a simple rectangle of milk bread, brown sugar, and cinnamon sprinkled with granulated sugar. [1]
The name does not refer to Greece, but is derived from grecht, a word in the local dialect meaning ditch. [2]