Crêpe Suzette Recipe 

In true French style, the famous Crêpe Suzette dessert with the delicious orange sauce is surrounded by legends and mystic as to how it was created and how it acquired its now famous name.

Legend goes that in 1896 the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII) was dining with a young lady named Suzette at Café de Paris in sunny Monte Carlo and he ordered hot pancakes. As fortune would have it the young pastry chef Henri Charpentier, who was in charge of preparing the dessert, accidentally spilt alcohol on his crêpe.

The department of Côtes d'Armor is well known for its abundance of exquisite gardens and elegant châteaux that are still owned and lived in by their ancestral families. Recently I toured Château et Domaine de Quintin (Quintin Château) in the ancient town of Quintin which has been a family home for the last 800 years. 

Château et Domaine de Quintin - Quintin Château

Nestled between Pontivy and Guingamp, and halfway between Rennes (110 kilometres) and Quimper (120 kilometres), Quintin is a centrally located town in the Côtes d'Armor department. Only 20 minutes drive from Saint-Brieuc, this vibrant beautiful Breton town holds lots of festivals and is a petite cité de Caractère that happily welcomes tourists.

I've wanted to see the château and have been visiting Quintin for years, but on occasions I’ve had somewhere else to be after visiting the town, or it has been winter, and the opening hours haven’t coordinated with my town visits.