Key Lime Crullers

These cream-puff-pastry-based donuts are what would today be known as French crullers or what America’s antebellum domestic goddess Eliza Leslie called “soft crullers.” In Paris, they wouldn’t have any idea what you’re talking about. The crullers only became “French” in the late eighteen hundreds, roughly around the same time that fried potatoes received the same honorific. This citrusy rendition is especially