Two Donuts?!
Answers: I have two questions. The first one is why do they call donuts, donuts when they don't have any nuts on them. My second question is how do they get the jam inside them?
Okay. They make two layers of dough (don't bake yet!) Then they put the jam in the middle. Then they put the second layer on top. Then they mold the donut so it stays together and looks like it should. 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.
I don't know the first question. Neither the second. Try to figure yourself. Buy a donut with jam inside. And try to observe every corners and sides of the donut.
no nuts nope, but it is made of dough. Fried dough! Picture a big canister full of jelly w/ a long nozzle, just push the donut on and fill it. Making sure to not over fill so the donut does not explode. I used to work in a Donut shop many years ago!
The Partially True History of the Doughnut
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In early colonial times, Dutch settlers arrived on US soil seeking freedom from the strictly enforced Writs of Pastry. These laws were created after a freak accident in which a cow kicked over a giant fryer causing much of Strudeldorf to be drenched in hot oil and fried to a golden brown. The new arrivals, careful not to mention the Strudeldorf incident back in Holland, were allowed to resume the making of their one true passion: fried cakes.
In the days when fried cakes ruled the earth, life was harsh. The cakes were difficult to fry all the way through which often left a gooey doughy center. The doughy unfried cake center often carried deadly diseases such as the bubonic plague and anthrax. Thousands of people and twelve bakers (the baker's dozen) died from eating unfried cakes. Still, people ate and ate not knowing if their next fried cake would be the last.
It was then a young lad by the name of Hanson Gregory stepped onto the scene. The year was 1847. Seventy years had passed since the United Stated fought Britain for independence.
The American Civil War was still several years away. Without any local wars to fight, Americans had little to do. Hanson's mother was a dedicated cake maker living on the cutting edge of pastry technology. Day in and day out she fried cakes with relentless passion. Sometimes though, even her fried cakes were doughy in the center. To conceal this, she began placing walnuts and hazelnuts in the center of the fried cakes, but this left little Hanson feeling very sad because the only thing he hated more than a doughy center were walnuts and hazelnuts on doughy centers.
One night while Hanson was sleeping, an angel appeared to him. The angel was holding a giant plate of fried cakes still dripping with hot oil. "Hanson," said the angel, "You must end the suffering of your people. Reveal the true nature of these fried cakes. Also, try one of the glazed.. they're quite tasty." The angel left, but the plate of fried cakes remained. Upon closer inspection, Hanson was shocked to discover that the fried cakes were hole-y. He ran into the streets shouting about his experience with the angel and giving these glorious pastries to the townspeople. Everyone agreed they were the best fried cakes ever. The people sang and danced for many days then had Hanson burned at the stake for being a witch.
Captain Hanson Crockett Gregory was the inventor of the donut with a hole in the middle.
William Rosenberg, the food-franchising pioneer founded the Dunkin' Donuts chain. Rosenberg opened his first coffee and doughnut shop, called the Open Kettle, in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1948. The name was changed to Dunkin' Donuts in 1950.
According to "Donuts and the Salvation Army" - While The Army may not have invented the first donut, it can certainly take credit for [helping] the popularity of donuts today. June 4-5 marks the 61st anniversary of Salvation Army 'Donut Day" In Chicago. The tag day was established in 1938 to honor the work of World War I Salvation Army ·'lassies' who prepared donuts for thousands of soldiers in World War I.
They are really "doughnuts" but we have changed the spelling over the years. (they are made from a dough).
I think I heard the "nut" is because they look like a nut from "nuts and bolts", but I am not 100% sure on that.
Don't know for certain, but the dough is usually portioned into nuggets about the size of a walnut... (just made that up people, kidding!)
There was a machine that I use to use years ago with two three-inch nozzles coming out the front and a big hopper at the top which is filled with jam. Two donuts at a time are impaled on the nozzles, there was a push bar fitted just below the nozzles that when pressed would open a feeder window and squirt a pre-measured amount of jam into the donuts through the nozzles inside of them.
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Here ya go complete history compliments of the foodnetwork's encyclopedia.
http://web.foodnetwork.com/food/web/ency...
*Quick extra tip if you are looking to make your own version try this suggestion of Grands biscuits cut out the hole or leave as is. Deep fry & after cooling a bit use a ziplok bag filled w/jelly w/tip on it to fill it up.
Enjoy!!! :)
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I don't know why they're called donuts (doughnuts) ... why is a computer mouse called a mouse? or a blackberry called a blackberry? ...... They make puffy yeast donuts and inject the filling into it. You can sometimes see a hole on the side (look at the bottom of a Twinkie, and you'll see the holes)