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 "id": "beignet",
 "type": "donut",
 "names": {
  "name": "Beignet",
  "aliases": [
   "French-style beignet",
   "New Orleans beignet"
  ],
  "said": "Square, no hole, and the sugar is not optional."
 },
 "region": [
  "louisiana"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "dough": "choux",
  "finish": "powdered",
  "state": "LA"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A deep-fried pastry of French origin, in New Orleans a square of dough fried until it puffs hollow and buried in confectioner's sugar. Beignet means bump.",
  "story": "The pâte à choux method — butter, eggs, milk or water, sugar, flour, salt, cooked and beaten — is the style French immigrants brought to New Orleans in the 1700s. Beignets are also made from yeast-leavened batters and from rice flour, and the word covers all of them. In Canadian French, beigne or beignet simply means doughnut. In the former French colonies of West Africa a beignet is a ball of fried dough, sometimes millet flour in Senegal.\n\nThe New Orleans beignet arrives at a table three to an order with a snowbank of powdered sugar and coffee cut with chicory beside it.",
  "how": "Roll the dough thin, cut squares, fry hot so they inflate and stay hollow, then sugar them heavily while they steam.",
  "today": "A donut shop in Louisiana may sell beignets, donuts and king cake off the same counter without anyone treating that as a mixed menu."
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "cafe-du-monde",
   "as": "The stand that made the square one famous.",
   "rel": "place"
  },
  {
   "to": "louisiana-beignet",
   "as": "The style it anchors.",
   "rel": "style"
  },
  {
   "to": "french-cruller",
   "as": "The other American donut lifted by steam alone.",
   "rel": "donut"
  },
  {
   "to": "powdered-sugar",
   "as": "What it is buried in.",
   "rel": "term"
  }
 ],
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  },
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   "names.said": {
    "tier": "tradition"
   },
   "text.today": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "the mixed counter is this project's reading of Louisiana menus"
   }
  }
 },
 "schema": 1,
 "confidence": "high",
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
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   "alt": "Beignets - Cafe du Monde, Metairie, Louisiana 2015",
   "date": "2015-04-10 08:07:56",
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 "blurb": "A deep-fried pastry of French origin, in New Orleans a square of dough fried until it puffs hollow and buried in confectioner's sugar. Beignet means bump.",
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   "key": "louisiana",
   "name": "Louisiana",
   "state": "LA",
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  }
 ],
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   "to": "cafe-du-monde",
   "type": "place",
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   "as": "What it is buried in.",
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   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
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   "id": "s:wp-doughnut",
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   "title": "Doughnut — Wikipedia",
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   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
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   "name": "The beignet stand",
   "as": "The item.",
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