In 1847, Elizabeth Gregory sent her son, Capt. Hanson Gregory on a voyage with her dough recipe, an olykoek, which is Dutch for oily cake, a dough ball cooked in pork fat. According to legend, Captain Gregory had difficulty steering his ship and eating the oily cake at the same time, so he stuck it on one of the spokes of his steering wheel. The shape of the oily cake changed once he informed his cook of its practicality. Elizabeth Gregory thought the new confection looked like a nut of some sort, and coined the term "doughnut" From then on, the oily cake became the doughnut.
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doughnut hole :)
A filled doughnut is a "Berliner" but may be called a Pfannkuchen (elsewhere, pancake) or Krapfen.The type of doughnut common in the US is usually called a Donut.Yeast-raised potato donuts are called Fastnachts.
I believe it's a torus
A fried doughnut has a lot of calories in it without being fried so if a doughnut was to be fried it would have to depend on what type of doughnut it is.
Yes
I ate a delicious doughnut today.
it is all one word "doughnut".
Voodoo Doughnut was created in 2003.
Arnie the Doughnut was created in 2003.
No, the noun 'doughnut' is a count noun; the plural form is doughnuts (one doughnut or a dozen doughnuts).
The english term is doughnut, but, the 'lazy' way, is donut. Either way is correct (: