When the top of the pancake is dry, it is ready to eat. Ployes are served rolled or folded as a substitute for bread, and make a good addition to any meal. For breakfast, serve ployes with cretons , a spicy pork meat spread. For the noon meal, serve with butter instead of bread and, after supper, serve with molasses or maple syrup, as a dessert. The origin of the word ploye , eludes us.
Some sources claim that it comes from the word plier , meaning to bend or fold.
Buckwheat requires a short growing season, usually ten to twelve weeks, making it a highly desirable crop for our ancestors, given the brief St. John Valley summer. A grain of buckwheat, does resemble a tiny beechnut. Perhaps the word is simply a phonetic spelling of the down-river Anglo word, as pronounced by Acadian tongues. In France, a ploye is called 'galette de sarrasin' . Our Canadian cousins call them 'plogues au sarrasin' and flip them over once, while cooking a thinner version.