Bugnes

Bugnes are delicious knots of crunchy doughnut pastry, dredged in icing sugar and eaten warm. Traditionally they’re eaten during Mardi Gras, a Christian festival held in February that celebrates the end of winter, preceding Ash Wednesday and the long period of abstinence of Lent. People would eat gras or fat to bolster their defences before forty days of eating very lightly. During this period, not only was it usual to feast on beignets or bugnes, but people would also