The doughnut didn't always have a hole! These round, flat, fried cakes were once filled, with soggy centers. At least, that's the way they were eaten when early Dutch settlers brought them to Colonial America.
Then in 1847, a 15-year-old boy, Hanson Crockett Gregory, was in the kitchen of his Rockport, Maine, home watching his mother make these fried cakes. When he asked her why the centers were so soggy and uncooked that they gave him indigestion, she didn't have the answer for him.
So Hanson took some of the uncooked cakes and poked out the centers with a fork. This time when his mother fried them, they were delicious, for the hole let the dough cook more thoroughly, making the cakes much easier to digest.
Today, doughnut makers put their dough into special machines that punch out the centers. The dough is then cooked in a vat of boiling oil until it is a puffy, crisp doughnut.
And the house in Rockport, Maine, where Hanson Crockett Gregory was born, bears a plaque commemorating the day that a boy invented a hole!
So they can be plucked from the hot oil with a rod. Another reason is that the heat can be distributed evenly.
They are easier to make this way.
In the Victorian era, a sailor was eating a donut while steering his ship. He accidently stuck his donut into the wheel, leaving a hole through the middle of the donut. He brought it back to England, where everyone liked it, and patented it as hid own.
Bakers figured out that the dough would be cooked all the way through in a shorter period of time. And the outside wouldn't be over cooked while the center was still raw.
Donut Holes - 2012 was released on: USA: 25 August 2012 (Channel 101 Film Festival)
Donut Holes - 2012 1-1 was released on: USA: 25 August 2012
Donut Holes - 2012 1-2 was released on: USA: 10 October 2012
Yes, donut holes are the cut out center of the dough before they are cooked.
Donut Holes - 2002 was released on: USA: February 2002 USA: October 2002 (Los Angeles International Short Film Festival) (premiere)
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The cast of Donut Holes - 2012 includes: LeJon as James Kasmir as Sandal Wood Davyd McCoy as Beuford David Mikalson as The John Kat Palardy as Hickory
There's a recipe on the related link for donuts that are 100 calories. or try just eating the donut hole instead of whole donuts. Donut holes are cheaper, and about 52 calories each.
Leon Kossover was the inventor of the donut hole. While working in a bakery in the 1950's, he was making donuts one day. When asked to take all of the holes that were punched out of the donut's roll them out to make more donuts, he had the idea to leave them the way they were, cook them and put toppings on them. His boss liked this idea. He packaged them in groups of 12 and sold them in the bakery. They were such a huge hit in the bakery they began to sell them in the local stores where they were flying off of the shelves. From that point on, donut holes became the hit that they are today. originally it was invented by a woman named Amy Diep
The donut holes are made automatically when the circle is cut from the rolled dough: there is a large outer circle and a small inner circle on the cutter. The holes are either rolled back out or deep fried separately in a basket, as they cannot be "turned" to cook on both sides. Jelly donuts and other "filled" donuts are cut with a plain, large circle cutter, providing the inflated full round shapes. The reason for holes in donuts is that it keeps them thinner when they fry, and the donut is more evenly cooked throughout.