Frau Homais liebte diese kleinen schweren Brote sehr, die in der Normandie seit uralten Zeiten in Form eines Turbans gebacken und in der Fastenzeit mit gesalzner Butter gegessen werden. Man buk sie bereits zur Zeit der Kreuzzüge.
Madame Homais was very fond of these small, heavy turban-shaped loaves, that are eaten in Lent with salt butter; a last vestige of Gothic food that goes back, perhaps, to the time of the Crusades, and with which the robust Normans gorged themselves of yore, fancying they saw on the table, in the light of the yellow torches, between tankards of hippocras and huge boars' heads, the heads of Saracens to be devoured.