The custom dates back to Roman festivals donuts the Kalends of March. They were celebrating the awakening of nature by agrarian rites. On this occasion, the prohibitions were violated and costumes allowed.
Before the period of deprivation, called the fasting period and lasted 40 days, it was customary to celebrate and Eating "fat". Where Mardi Gras is the day before Lent. As
Day brought together a large number of people required to make pastries cheap and quickly prepared. It was also to use the reserves of butter, oil, eggs, before the 40 days of fasting that would follow. Hence the tradition of donuts and also waffles, pancakes ...
In France, the donuts are prevalent throughout, but not necessarily the same name. By region, they are called: donuts, bugnes, wonders, atria, fried carnival bottereaux, tourtisseaux, corvechets, loops, Nouet, is (fruit fritters) ... Similarly, depending on the region, the recipe varies slightly and the donuts are not exactly the same but they all have the same origin. Source
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Some time ago, I've posted the recipe Legs Ladies, by
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Today I am sharing more recipes donut: Doughnuts
balls Berlin -500g flour -50g yeast -100g butter -60g sugar -3 yolks -1 pinch of salt -100g sugar 10 g cinnamon powder -1 glass of milk -jam Prepare a dough with flour and yeast diluted in milk tiédi.Laisser up. Meanwhile, work the butter, sugar, egg yolks and salt. Mix the two preparations and add the amount of milk needed to make a paste souple.Laisser enough dough to rise 1 / 2 hour covered with a cloth. Beat the batter again. Take small portions, roll into a ball and let rise about 45 minutes. Cook in hot frying. After cooking, put the jam with a pastry bag. Roll in cinnamon-sugar mixture. Source: Pastry Alsatian " I confess that I love eating, but we regard the preparation, too long for my taste with all these steps, I prefer to leave my grandmother and then I 'bought donuts at the bakery (which happens rarely). However, I have a little recipe that I picked on a forum last year, and I never tire of faire.Ce are fritters cheese, quickly executed, excellent, and make small, to the delight of my hungry kids. Moreover, they are more digestible, so you can eat more hi, hi, hi ...
Fried cheesecake , picked up at supertoinette
Place in a bowl: -500g cottage cheese -3 eggs-150g sugar -1 pq vanilla sugar -500g flour -1 pq baking powder
Mix tout.Former small balls with 2 teaspoons . Leave them in oil on a paper towel minutes.Egoutter 5 and roll in cinnamon + sugar mixture. I made a batch earlier, and of course I could not resist, yum, yum. My son will take part tomorrow in school, they will celebrate carnival.