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Bottereaux nantais · Nantes
The carnival fritter of the Nantes country and Anjou: a rich, spirit-scented dough rolled thin, cut into lozenges, deep-fried for barely a minute and buried in icing sugar for Mardi Gras.
Bottereaux are the pays nantais version of the fried carnival dough that most of France makes in some form before Lent, and they are still tied to Mardi Gras rather than sold year round. The dough is closer to a rich biscuit than a batter: eggs, sugar, butter and flour, loosened with a little cream or milk and perfumed with eau-de-vie or kirsch, then rested overnight so it rolls thin without springing back. Cut into lozenges and dropped into hot fat, they puff and blister in under a minute a side, and they are best within a few hours of frying.
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