This article is about frozen chocolate dunkin donuts food. For the shape, see Solid torus. Doughnut hole” and “Donut hole” redirect here.
For other uses, see Donut Hole. It is popular in many countries and is prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty vendors. Doughnuts are usually deep fried from a flour dough, but other types of batters can also be used. Small pieces of dough are sometimes cooked as doughnut holes. Clockwise from upper left: Doughnuts in two shapes, Tim Hortons “Timbits” doughnut holes, glazed doughnuts from Five Daughters Bakery, and a pink Christmas doughnut. This smaller piece of dough can be cooked and served as a “doughnut hole” or added back to the batch to make more doughnuts.
There are two types of ring doughnuts, those made from a yeast-based dough for raised doughnuts, or those made from a special type of cake batter. After frying, ring doughnuts are often topped. Cake doughnuts can also be glazed, powdered with confectioner’s sugar, or covered with cinnamon and granulated sugar. Doughnut holes are small, bite-sized doughnuts that were traditionally made from the dough taken from the center of ring doughnuts. Traditionally, doughnut holes are made by frying the dough removed from the center portion of the doughnut. Consequently, they are considerably smaller than a standard doughnut and tend to be spherical.
Similar to standard doughnuts, doughnut holes may be topped with confections, such as glaze or powdered sugar. However, doughnut holes can also be made by dropping a small ball of dough into hot oil from a specially shaped nozzle or cutter. Filled doughnuts are flattened spheres injected with fruit preserves, cream, custard, or other sweet fillings, and often dipped into powdered sugar or topped off with frosting. Others include the fritter and the Dutchie, which are usually glazed. In the northeast United States, bars and twists are usually referred to as crullers.
These doughnuts closely resembled later ones but did not yet have their current ring shape. The Country Housewife’s Family Companion by William Ellis. A recipe labelled “dow nuts”, again from Hertfordshire, was found in a book of recipes and domestic tips written around 1800, by the wife of Baron Thomas Dimsdale, the recipe being given to the dowager Baroness by an acquaintance who transcribed for her the cooking instructions for a “dow nut”. The first cookbook, using the near conventional “dough nuts” spelling, was possibly the 1803, New York, edition, of “The Frugal Housewife: or, Complete Woman Cook”, which included dough nuts in an appendix of American recipes. The name oly koeks was almost certainly related to the oliekoek: a Dutch delicacy of “sweetened cake fried in fat. Daniela Galarza, for Eater, wrote that “the now-standard doughnut’s hole is still up for debate. Hanson Gregory, an American, claimed to have invented the ring-shaped doughnut in 1847 aboard a lime-trading ship when he was 16 years old.
Gregory was dissatisfied with the greasiness of doughnuts twisted into various shapes and with the raw center of regular doughnuts. He claimed to have punched a hole in the center of dough with the ship’s tin pepper box, and to have later taught the technique to his mother. Look up doughnut or donut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. One of the earliest known literary usages of the term dates to an 1808 short story describing a spread of “fire-cakes and dough-nuts”. The first known printed use of donut was in Peck’s Bad Boy and his Pa by George W.
Peck, published in 1900, in which a character is quoted as saying, “Pa said he guessed he hadn’t got much appetite, and he would just drink a cup of coffee and eat a donut. The interchangeability of the two spellings can be found in a series of “National Donut Week” articles in The New York Times that covered the 1939 World’s Fair. In four articles beginning October 9, two mention the donut spelling. National Doughnut Day, also known as National Donut Day, celebrated in the United States of America, is on the first Friday of June each year, succeeding the Doughnut Day event created by The Salvation Army in 1938 to honor those of their members who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War I. In the US, especially in Southern California, fresh doughnuts sold by the dozen at local doughnut shops are typically packaged in generic pink boxes. This phenomenon can be attributed to Ted Ngoy and Ning Yen, refugees of the Cambodian genocide who transformed the local doughnut shop industry.