Breton People - Breton Cuisine

Breton Cuisine

Breton cuisine contains many elements from the wider French culinary tradition. Local specialities include:

• Chouchenn – a type of Breton mead
• Chistr – cider
• Fars forn – a kind of sweet suet pudding with prune far breton
• Kouign-amann – mean butter pastry
• Krampouezh – thin pancakes made either from wheat or buckwheat flour; usually eaten as a main course (crêpes)
• Lambig – apple eau de vie