They didn't start off with holes but were little fried balls of dough so they would have looked like nuts. The dough can only be so thick so putting the hole in them allows you to make a bigger doughnut and still have it cook properly.
Or at least that is the answer I found when I ask the same question.
Or at least that is the answer I found when I ask the same question.
Why are doughnuts called doughnuts?
- 03/06/2010 10:40:56 PM
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I thought they were American?
- 03/06/2010 10:46:44 PM
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Your imagination isn't stretchy enough.
- 03/06/2010 10:56:29 PM
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That is a nut?
- 03/06/2010 10:57:30 PM
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Looks like there's a gap in the market. Let's invent doughbolts. *NM*
- 03/06/2010 10:58:48 PM
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*NM*
How does no one else know this? And why is Camilla the only ignorant one who wondered? *NM*
- 03/06/2010 11:22:53 PM
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Because my brain is a strange, strange place. *NM*
- 03/06/2010 11:45:39 PM
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Or you just have more curiosity than dull minds like Cannoli's? 
*NM*
- 03/06/2010 11:52:06 PM
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*NM*
- 03/06/2010 11:52:06 PM
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I think Alton Brown said it was the size of the dough....
- 04/06/2010 02:35:48 AM
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Please, every girl knows: It's not the size of the dough, it's...
- 04/06/2010 02:55:02 PM
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the boring answer
- 04/06/2010 04:20:47 PM
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