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The terms below constitute either names for different doughnut types created using local recipes, or for the local language translation of the term for an imported doughnut product.
Doughnuts in a display case at a coffee shop. A doughnut (sometimes spelt donut in American English; both / ˈ d oʊ n ə t /) is a type of pastry made from leavened fried dough. [1] [2]: 275 It is popular in many countries and is prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty vendors.
The old-fashioned doughnut is a term used for a variety of cake doughnut prepared in the shape of a ring with a cracked surface and tapered edges. [1] While many early cookbooks included recipes for "old-fashioned donuts" that were made with yeast, [2] the distinctive cake doughnuts sold in doughnut shops are made with chemical leavener and may have crisper texture compared to other styles of ...
The yeast dough contains a good deal of eggs, milk and butter. For the classical Pfannkuchen made in Berlin the dough is rolled into a ball, deep-fried in lard, whereby the distinctive bright bulge occurs, and then filled with jam.
Potato doughnuts share similar ingredients to normal doughnuts, but have all or most of the flour replaced with either mashed potatoes [14] or potato starch. [15]Potato doughnuts tend to be a light, fluffy variety of doughnut [16] and are usually topped with the same variety of frosting or toppings as other doughnuts. [16]
Mister Donut is an international chain of doughnut stores, operating mostly in Asia. It was founded in the United States in 1956 by Harry Winokur.Primary offerings include doughnuts, coffee, muffins and pastries.
In July 2000, the DONUT collaboration announced the first observation of tau neutrino interactions. This result was based on only four events, but the signal was far in excess of the expected background (0.34±0.05 events), and has a p-value of 4×10 −4, around 3.5 sigma.
There are several purported origins for donut holes and the "ring" shaped donut. The concept of forming donuts with a hole in the center is commonly attributed to Captain Hanson Gregory, [1] [2] who claimed to have invented the first ring donut after cutting the center of his mother's donut out in 1847.