[Sca-cooks] Celtic origin...?

[Olwen the Odd]

>         beignet
>         SYLLABICATION: bei·gnet
>         VARIANT FORMS: also bei·gné
>         NOUN: (Southern Louisiana) 1. A square doughnut with no
>hole: "a New
>Orleans coffeehouse selling beignets, an insidious Louisianian
>cousin of the
>doughnut that exists to get powdered sugar on your face" (Los
>Angeles
>Times). 2. A fritter.
>         ETYMOLOGY: French, fritter, of Celtic origin
>

So are there any Celtic scholars who can share what the original root
that later became beignets?

This is a topic of discussion on the Merry Rose.  I too was interested as I
cann't figure out the connection between the french and the celts busides
kissing cousins.
Olwen

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