Doughnuts

[Miche]

In article <19970511000...@ladder01.news.aol.com>
joy...@aol.com (Joylana) writes:

> Where did the name, doughnut, come from? that is still and probably
> always will be a mystery.

It's a nut (round thing with a hole in the middle, cf nuts and bolts)
made of dough.

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[Joylana]

Have just read the thread regarding the making of doughnuts.
Maybe this little bit of knowledge will help.

The origins are lost in time also the name but....

Fryed cakes were made in Medeival times...the recipe is very similar to
one I use now....also fritters which were almost the same! Do have recipes
from ca. 1400's England. The "cakes" did not have a hole in them at that
time.

I did like the reasoning re: how the hole started, concerning the New
Englanders starting it. I have original recipes from ancestors which are
back to Cape Cod 1600's which have the makings for "fried cakes" and also
later, putting holes in the middle... The holes, as one said before,
were chiefly to aid in cooking the "cake" all the way through.

There have been many stories concerning the origin of the hole that are
amuzing. Some say that a fellow got tired of the uncooked middle or maybe
he just wanted to target shoot..but he threw it in the air and fired dead
center a couple of times!!

Where did the name, doughnut, come from? that is still and probably

always will be a mystery. We can only think that it could refer to what
people called the 'cake' during the fixing...i.e. dough; or maybe a weird
form of do not..... Happy eating.

[Barry Shein]

>> Where did the name, doughnut, come from? that is still and probably
>> always will be a mystery.
>

>It's a nut (round thing with a hole in the middle, cf nuts and bolts)
>made of dough.

Ok, I'll play too...

Howsabout from dough-naught, "naught" is a word for "zero", as in this
puzzle from Ripley's Believe It or Not!

1004180

What sentence does that represent?



I owe naught for I ate naught.
1 0 0 4 1 8 0

(ok, Ripley's was never that satisfying to the obsessive stickler.)

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[Mary Elizabeth]

Joylana wrote:
>
> Have just read the thread regarding the making of doughnuts.
> Maybe this little bit of knowledge will help.
>
> The origins are lost in time also the name but....
>
> Fryed cakes were made in Medeival times...the recipe is very similar to
> one I use now....also fritters which were almost the same! Do have recipes
> from ca. 1400's England. The "cakes" did not have a hole in them at that
> time.
>
> I did like the reasoning re: how the hole started, concerning the New
> Englanders starting it. I have original recipes from ancestors which are
> back to Cape Cod 1600's which have the makings for "fried cakes" and also
> later, putting holes in the middle... The holes, as one said before,
> were chiefly to aid in cooking the "cake" all the way through.
>
> There have been many stories concerning the origin of the hole that are
> amuzing. Some say that a fellow got tired of the uncooked middle or maybe
> he just wanted to target shoot..but he threw it in the air and fired dead
> center a couple of times!!
>

> Where did the name, doughnut, come from? that is still and probably

> always will be a mystery. We can only think that it could refer to what
> people called the 'cake' during the fixing...i.e. dough; or maybe a weird
> form of do not..... Happy eating.

About the name, I wonder whether it's from the same source as gingernut,
which I've seen in 19th-c. English novels apparently referring to a
ginger cookie or what we in the U.S. would call a gingersnap.

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