 The question as to why doughnuts have holes has been
raised by dozens of bakers over the years, but most agree that the
answer to this sticky question lies in the fact that the interior of
these fried cakes would not cook fully without a hole in the center.
In short, the consistency of a doughnut lacking a hole would be,
quite simply, doughy.
Another riveting theory as to the
origin of the bulls eye in the doughnut holds that a sea captain
named Hanson Gregory, while manning his post one stormy night, found
it impossible both to steer his vessel and to eat his fried cake.
Out of sheer frustration, and probably out of hunger, he impaled his cake over one of the spokes of the ship's wheel, thereby creating
a finger hold with which to grip the cake. Quite pleased with
his ingenuity, Mr. Gregory ordered the
galley's cook to fry the cakes in that manner henceforth.
Whatever the reason for the hole in the doughnut, this fried
cake, with or without a hole, has been incorporated into the diets
of people throughout the world for centuries. In fact, archaeologists found petrified fried cakes with holes amongst the
artifacts of a primitive Indian
tribe.
Many credit Dutch settlers to America with introducing the
non-holed olykoeks, or "oily cakes," to this continent, and with
their subsequent popularity.
There is no disputing the fact that the fried cake became the
rage in New York and in New England, and that before long, it became
the specialty of coffee shops. Fried cakes came into their own in
1673, when a self-made New York marketing guru, Anna Joralemon, made their purchase at
the market possible.
To this day, doughnuts, in any shape or form, remain married in
our minds to coffee and police officers, and are here to stay.
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doughy: 半熟的
riveting: 吸引人的
impale:
刺穿
spoke: 輪輻
ingenuity: 獨出心裁
henceforth: 自此以后
archaeologist:
考古學家
petrified:
石化的
artifact: 史前古器物
guru: 權威人士
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