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HOLE'S HISTORY IS HALF-BAKED.


Byline: -- Julia M. Scott

Bakers have been satisfying sweet tooths with doughnuts for centuries. But the history of the doughnut -- and how it lost its middle -- has plenty of holes.

Most agree that the Dutch brought the food to the Americas A·mer·i·cas   , the

See America.
 in the 1600s. Back then they called them olykoek, or oily cakes.

But experts differ on why the treats were called doughnut. Some believe the name comes from their early, ball-like shape that made fully cooking the center difficult. Others say a prominent baker stuffed nuts into the middle to disguise Disguise
Dishonesty (See DECEIT.)

Abigail

enters nunnery as convert to retrieve money. [Br. Lit.: The Jew of Malta]

Achilles

disguised as a woman to avoid conscription. [Gk.
 the undercooked dough.

Capt. Hanson Gregory from New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt.  is widely credited with putting the hole in doughnuts. But how he did it is disputed.

One legend has it that the quick-thinking sea captain speared a doughnut on a spoke in his ship's steering The process whereby builders, brokers, and rental property managers induce purchasers or lessees of real property to buy land or rent premises in neighborhoods composed of persons of the same race.  wheel when he needed both hands during a storm.

Another tale has it that an angel told him in a dream to remove the doughy center. Yet another version has it that Gregory didn't like the nuts often stuffed into the middle and poked them out.

Without the gooey See GUI.  center, the doughnuts cooked evenly and became a hit.
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