2006-10-04 04:37:05 · 7 answers · asked by hoehoe 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
Originally doughnuts were baked without holes in the middle and their shape reminded nuts.
"A doughnut, or donut, is a deep-fried piece of dough or batter. The two most common shapes are the flattened sphere, which is injected with jam/jelly or another sweet filling; and the torus-shaped ring doughnut, which has the center cut out, leaving a small piece which is separately cooked as a doughnut hole. "
"Washington Irving's reference to "doughnuts" in 1809 in his History of New York is an early printed use of the word. Irving described "balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks."[2] These "nuts" of fried dough might now be called doughnut holes. "Doughnut" is the more traditional spelling, and still dominates outside the US."
2006-10-04 04:51:49 · answer #1 · answered by Magnetic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why are they called peanuts when they have no pea? Anyway
some doughnuts do have nuts on top.
2006-10-04 11:45:30 · answer #2 · answered by Mailman Bob 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because they are shaped like a nut (lug nut, nuts & bolts) and they are made of dough...doughnut!!
2006-10-04 12:14:22 · answer #3 · answered by chickadee_ajm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they are made from dough that's why they called doughnuts eventhough they don't have nuts.
2006-10-04 12:47:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prolley cuz they are like the nuts you use to fix things with. Some got nuts...mmmm the persian rolls.
2006-10-04 11:39:10 · answer #5 · answered by Mystie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mine have nuts.
2006-10-04 11:44:53 · answer #6 · answered by GP 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some have nuts! =)
2006-10-04 14:24:42 · answer #7 · answered by ♥ mars♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋