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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:11:40 -0500
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Why do doughnuts have holes?
The question as to why doughnuts have holes has been raised by dozens
of bakers over the years, but most agree that the answer to this
sticky question lies in the fact that the interior of these fried
cakes would not cook fully without a hole in the center. In short, the
consistency of a doughnut lacking a hole would be, quite simply,
doughy.
Another riveting theory as to the origin of the bulls eye in the
doughnut holds that a sea captain named Hanson Gregory, while manning
his post one stormy night, found it impossible both to steer his
vessel and to eat his fried cake. Out of sheer frustration, and
probably out of hunger, he impaled his cake over one of the spokes of
the ship's wheel, thereby creating a finger hold with which to grip
the cake. Quite pleased with his ingenuity, Mr. Gregory ordered the
galley's cook to fry the cakes in that manner henceforth.
Whatever the reason for the hole in the doughnut, this fried cake,
with or without a hole, has been incorporated into the diets of people
throughout the world for centuries. In fact, archaeologists found
petrified fried cakes with holes amongst the artifacts of a primitive
Indian tribe.
Many credit Dutch settlers to America with introducing the non-holed
olykoeks, or "oily cakes," to this continent, and with their
subsequent popularity.
There is no disputing the fact that the fried cake became the rage in
New York and in New England, and that before long, it became the
specialty of coffee shops. Fried cakes came into their own in 1673,
when a self-made New York marketing guru, Anna Joralemon, made their
purchase at the market possible.
To this day, doughnuts, in any shape or form, remain married in our
minds to coffee and police officers, and are here to stay.
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