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because its made of dough

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14y ago

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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11y ago

The glaze used is not really cream, it is a mixture of sugar, butter and spices. The high amount of sugar causes the glaze to have a crispy consistency (just like Hostess cream and buttercream icing)

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15y ago

because one guy asked another guy what to call it and he said "i dunno" then they added nuts.

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12y ago

donuts are made out of dough and they probably have a thing with nuts in them

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11y ago

its called a doughnut because its made of fried dough and its shaped like a nut

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12y ago

because its made of dough

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