Course: Dessert
Tags: 2025-12, Paul's
Pets de Sœur
According to Anne Godin, there was a nun who made pies, and she’d flatten the leftover dough, spread it with butter and cinnamon, and roll it up like cinnamon rolls.
Version 1: the Acadian word for e.g. “teacher’s pet” is the same - pets.
Version 2: they ate the cinnamon rolls every day for five days and there was a concert of flatulence! The French word for “fart” = “pet.”
Margarine or lard is just fine for mixing into the dough. Save the real butter for spreading on top the dough.
Source
transcribed from Anne Godin's video by Paul Pitre
Ingredients
| ½ c | butter |
| 3 c | flour |
| 6 tsp | baking powder |
| 1 tsp | salt |
| 1 tsp | sugar |
| ½ c | cold butter, margarine or lard |
| 1 c | milk |
| 1 c | brown sugar |
| 1 heaping tsp | cinnamon |
| 1 c | hot water |
Bust Out
| large bowl | |
| wooden spoon | |
| 10"x10" dish |
Steps
- Preheat oven to 375°
- Soften butter to very soft but not melted, maybe in the microwave.
- Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar into a large bowl.
- Grate cold butter, margarine or lard into bowl and crumble everything together with your hands.
- Add milk, stir with a wooden spoon until it's a sticky ball. If it's not sticky, add more milk a tablespoon or two at a time.
- Sprinkle flour on the counter and turn dough out onto it.
- Knead maybe 4 times until everything is combined. More kneading is not better.
- Roll out the dough, about ⅓ inch thick, a little thicker than pie crust.
- Spread the soft butter with your hands, distribute brown sugar on that, sprinkle with cinnamon.
- Roll up into a log.
- Pour hot water into 10"x10" dish
- Cut log into 12 equal pieces and place in dish.
- Bake for about 30 minutes
