Navette, french pastry

In the region of Provence, it replaces pancakes at Candlemas. The name "navette", a french word for shuttle, comes from the boat that landed two saints, Mary Magdalene and Martha, in Provence in place now called Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. This city of Camargue is a pilgrimage site for gypsies who arrive en masse in May.
Candlemas is the second day of February.
The Abbey of Saint Victor (saintvictor.net) in the 7th arrondissement of Marseille, cook shuttles since 200 years to celebrate the mysterious appearance of a statue of the Virgin of wood washed up on the shore of Lacydon, the former name of port of Marseille.
The recipe for the shuttle is close to that of pancakes cooked in the oven but not in frying pan.

Ingredients

• Flour: 50g
• Sugar: 25g
• Butter: 7g
• Egg: 40g
• Orange flower: 5g
• Water: 5g
• Salt:

Ustensiles

Oven.

Preparation

Combine flour, sugar, and add salt.
Add 3/4 of the eggs. Keep a yellow to brown.
Add the orange flower water, softened butter.
Mix while gradually adding water.
The dough should be firm, unlike pancakes.
Let stand one hour.
Make balls of dough and roll.
With a knife, open it in the length to give the shape of a boat.
Let stand two hours.
Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
Brush with egg yolk mixed with milk or water.
Place on a baking sheet and bake.
Remove from the shuttles when they are golden.

Serve

Warm or cold.