Beignets à la Royale

Beignet means ‘doughnut’ in French, but these are far from the pastry-based, deep-fried confection we associate with the word today. This was one of the recipes that took a great deal of development work and experimentation; the original text acts as a reminder that Avis wrote her recipes down very much for herself, as an aide-memoire, not as a book intended to be used by or cooked from by other people. These beignets are essentially savoury