[guide.chat] Fact Of The Day
- From: "clare moulds" <clare@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Guide Chat" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 20:07:27 +0100
On This Day:
Friday May 18, 2012
This is the 139th day of the year, with 227 days remaining in 2012.
Fact of the Day: doughnuts
Doughnuts were first made in the US around the beginning of the 19th
century, when they were also called oly-cooks (the word coming from Dutch
oliekoek "oilcake", a clue to the Dutch origins of the doughnut). Then
they
were simply small dumplings. The development of the ring-shaped doughnut
came much later in that century. The word is an allusion to the small,
rounded shape of the original doughnuts; the element -nut is used
similarly
in "gingernut" and its now obsolete synonym "spicenut".
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