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Pet de Soeur French Canadians find “nun’s farts” addictively delicious
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Posted on 06/15/2021 5:11:08 AM PDT by mylife

Some pastries are so scrumptious that nothing will deter fans from tearing into one—not even giving it an off-putting name. The French-Canadian pet de soeur (“sister’s fart”) is no exception.

Québécois often bake the flaky spirals of dough during holidays. The pastry, glazed in butter, brown sugar, and occasionally cinnamon, pays crass homage to the nuns who first made it, and it’s significantly tastier than the title implies.

Regarding its name, explanations abound. Some say it stems from the sound the dough makes as it’s being fried in oil. Others tell tales of one nun’s fart causing such hysterical laughter that another sister accidentally dropped some dough in oil.

To further complicate pet de soeur’s identity, French bakers deep-fry dough puffs—akin to beignets—that go by the same name. Regardless, should you try your hand at preparing either version of this simple delight at home, be sure to yell, “It’s fart time!” when they’re ready.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: canada; food
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To: Clutch Martin

Ah, the fabled Betty Crocker Codex.


21 posted on 06/15/2021 7:04:15 AM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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To: mylife

IOW, what every little kid has done with leftover pie crust but this is intentional and rolled.


22 posted on 06/15/2021 8:17:22 AM PDT by bgill
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To: mylife

My mother used to make those but called them cinnamon rolls. No other mother in our hometown made them like my mother did. She was from the Grand Forks, ND area and must have picked it up from some canooks.


23 posted on 06/15/2021 10:55:43 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
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To: rlmorel

I dunno turquoise and red is some kinda 60s chic.

That would work in with knotty pine paneling...


24 posted on 06/20/2021 6:04:40 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distribBluted right.)
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To: Clutch Martin

It was hilarious for years...all the houses in the neighborhood had the same bizarre combination of colors. Over the years, we would get to go inside another house, this one had lime green shag carpet, that one had orange...another might have blue...all with some kind of coordinated oven and range of another wild color.

My wife and I would glance at each other when we walk in, and as our eyes met, you could easily read “These poor people! Thank God we got the red!”


25 posted on 06/21/2021 4:42:14 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Don’t you mean...

Pew!

🤣🤣🤣


26 posted on 06/21/2021 4:51:23 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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