![]() ![]() Over time, and into English, “knot” evolved into “nut.” Another more likely theory is that the treats were tied together at the end, in a knot. The dough part is obvious, but what’s with the nut? In his 1809 book A History of New York, Washington Irving says that nuts were sometimes added to the dough for flavor, or that the nut was placed in the middle to help the pastry maintain its shape. A man named Hanson Gregory claims to have turned olykoeks into that more familiar shape when he was working on a lime-trading ship in 1849. ![]() ![]() When Dutch settlers arrived in what’s now New York in the 17 th century, they brought with them something called olykoek, or “oily cake.” They were much like today’s doughnuts in that they were fried balls or discs of sweetened dough…but they weren’t ring-shaped with a hole in the middle. Doughnuts (or donuts) have been around for ages.
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