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
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