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Post by plocket on May 3, 2007 19:22:24 GMT 1
Two questions really:
LP asked me today why doughnuts are called doughnuts when there aren't any nuts in them. Well I'm stumped - can anyone else enlighten me? I've also asked on The AnswerBank so will report if no one knows!
And secondly, what is the correct spelling: doughnut or donut?
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Post by Sleepy on May 3, 2007 19:52:33 GMT 1
Two questions really: LP asked me today why doughnuts are called doughnuts when there aren't any nuts in them. Well I'm stumped - can anyone else enlighten me? I've also asked on The AnswerBank so will report if no one knows! And secondly, what is the correct spelling: doughnut or donut? The doughnut supposedly came to us from the eighteenth century Dutch of New Amsterdam and were referred to as olykoeks, meaning oily cakes. In the nineteenth century, Elizabeth Gregory fried flavored dough with walnuts for her son Hanson Gregory, hence the name doughnut. By the late nineteenth century, the doughnut had a hole. And the correct spelling is doughnut |
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Post by The witch on May 3, 2007 21:18:29 GMT 1
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Post by plocket on May 4, 2007 8:28:19 GMT 1
I found some stuff on Wikipedia too - but it didn't tell me why they are called nuts!!! :  |
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Post by The witch on May 5, 2007 10:19:08 GMT 1
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