SC - Oublies

[Philip & Susan Troy]

> In the beginning, these wafers, made out of any pastry
> remenants, were lft to bakery boys-it was their profit. On
> winter evenings they would offer them to passers-by and sell
> them from door to door; they sold 7 or 8 of these wafers at
> a time and this was called 'une main d'oublies'[a handfull
> of wafers].
> 
	Interesting to hear the source of the wafers - 'oublier' is the
modern french verb to forget (probably spelt wrong however ) - so 'une main
d'oublies' would be 'a handful of forgotten bits' - a poetic way of
describing scraps : ) 

	karin

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