Where Did Donuts Come From?
- from Alexandra Chilson
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- Wellsboro Area High School
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Have you ever thought, while you were eating a delightful donuts, why does it have a hole right in the middle?
Sometimes, the donuts we know and love are also spelled doughnuts. They are made from deep-fried dough. As most people know, the sky is the limit with donuts, and not one place makes them the same as another. Some don’t even have holes. But, the most classic donut is in the shape of a circle with a zero-shaped hovel in the middle, with clear, sugar glazing on the top. It’s very intriguing to think about what caused the hole's presence. It's not always just small children, adults do too.
There isn’t just one said-and-done answer on where this original came from. One of the notions credits and American sailor named Hanson Gregory for inventing the donut while aboard his lime-trading ship in 1847, and was only the tender age of sixteen at the time. It’s said that on his time on the ship, he did not appreciate the texture of the fried loaves given out. This was because the outside was nice and crisp, but the interior was lubricious and squishy. So, he thought of the perfect solution. Why not just stab a hole in the center, to let the whole cake fry evenly. This is the perfect solution because of the way the cakes were fried. When the dough for the cake was put in the fryer, the outer boundaries would be the most open to the hot cooking oil. If the cake stayed in just long enough to make the edges nice and cooked, it could be doughy in the middle, but if they made the inside well cooked, the outside would get burnt. So, putting a hole in the cakes resulted the great-great grandfather of the donuts we know today. It opened a huge door for likelihoods of "scrumptiousness"
Donuts like the ones we always see policemen eating with coffee in America gained attention next to the time bagels started to become known. Street vendors commonly would retail bagels piled on lengthy sticks or extensive ropes. It is said that the hole in the center aided them in being vended in a very analogous manner.
With this beautiful discovery of the usefulness of holes of donuts comes an equally appealing treat... Donut holes! When the holes are cut out of donuts they are usually used to make little balls of fried dough. Well… This actually isn’t true in most cases. Most donuts are made straight into circle shapes. The donut holes most people get now are really just pieces of fried dough.