#bugnes

Ça va bien avec le café.

Boeuf Gras, or, Fat Bull = Fat Tuesday

The day before Lent descends. With a litany of names. Mardi Gras. Fat Tuesday. Boeuf Gras. Shrove Tuesday.* Boeuf Gras? Symbol of the fattened ox, the last meat devoured before Lenten stringency took hold. With roots in the Minotaur and Labyrinth myth. What really drove the Lenten fast? And how did Boeuf Gras begin? During the Middle Ages, and later, the Lenten dietary restrictions of the Roman…

Hey 😊

Yeah I'm a little obsessed by bugnes ! 😅

But it's only sold in february, so I have to make the most of it !

I think it's mostly a donut dough but with a little of orange blossom essence ? And then a little a icing sugar on it. But it's aery ? (I don't know how to say it, but the dough is quite ligh.)

It's delicious !!! (When you find a good backery, as for anything there is different qualities.)

I you find some, I hope you will enjoy !!! 🥰

En février, les odeurs de l'enfance, ce sont aussi les bugnes. Lyonnaises ou stéphanoises, oreillettes ou merveilles... On pourra chercher longtemps les vraies, les seules, les uniques! On en mangeait déjà durant la Rome antique, à l'époque du carnaval... et de la Pologne à l'Espagne, du Danemark à la Roumanie, le beignet de Carnaval ravit tous les enfants. Sans doute comptons-nous autant de recettes que de pays, de villes, de villages et de familles. Et c'est tant mieux!