564. Baked Doughnuts
Doughnuts or Donuts? Which of the above two spellings is correct? Doughnut appears as the official spelling in the dictionaries but donuts is the contracted word of the original mostly used by Americans.What is a doughnut? A doughnut is a small fried cake made from a sweet dough. Its either in the shape of a ball or a ring. The ball shaped doughnuts are usually filled with fresh cream, jam or custard. The ring ones are glazed with icing, chocolate or fresh cream. If they are not glazed then the warm doughnuts are coated with sugar and cinnamon or other flavourings or spices. It is believed that during the mid 19th Century the Dutch were making olykoeks or oil cakes. These were fried in pork fat till they were golden brown. The Dutch settlers in America continued to make these oily cakes and since then have evolved into what we know as present day doughnuts. Whatever the history, it seems that many parts o...