{{Short description|French shortbread cookie}} {{refimprove|date=June 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox prepared food | name = Sablé | image = Sablés au parmesan et au poivre vert.jpg | caption = Sablé with Parmesan cheese and green pepper | alternate_name = | country = France | region = Caen, Normandy | creator = | course = | type = Biscuit | served = | main_ingredient = Shortbread | variations = | calories = | other = }}
'''Sablé''' (also known as '''Breton shortbread''') is a French round shortbread biscuit that might have originated in Sablé-sur-Sarthe in Sarthe.<ref name=b>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s4IlDwAAQBAJ&q=sable+biscuit+marquise+de+sevigne&pg=PT24|title=French Impressions The Loire Valley|last=East|first=George|date=3 January 2012|publisher=la Puce Publications|isbn=9780956269171|language=en}}</ref>
==History== According to the letters of the Marquise de Sévigné, the biscuit was maybe created for the first time in Sablé-sur-Sarthe in 1670.<ref name=b/>
The French word ''sablé'' means "sandy",<ref>{{cite book | last=Herbst | first=S.T. | title=The Joy of Cookies | publisher=Barron's | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-8120-5839-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tDD45GLxWMAC&pg=PA51 | access-date=20 June 2017 | page=51}}</ref> a rough equivalent of English "breadcrumbs". Generally, the baker begins the process by rubbing cold butter into flour and sugar to form particles of dough until the texture resembles that of breadcrumbs or sand.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/magazine/cookie-master.html?mtrref=www.google.com.au&gwh=0BB30D35EBE2F0A6C86112C66F8F1A3A&gwt=pay|title=Cookie Master|last=Moskin|first=Julia|work=The New York Times |date=7 November 2004 |access-date=30 August 2018|language=en}}</ref>
==Recipe== Among the most well-known sablé recipes are those of La Mère Poulard, and the biscuits of Saint-Michel and Pont-Aven.
Sablés can be flavoured with almonds, lemon, parmesan, green pepper, or orange zest.
==See also== * List of shortbread biscuits and cookies * Sandies
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==External links== * {{commonscat-inline|Sablés}}
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