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In the UK these are called doughnuts.
The presence of a hole isnt a pre-requisite to being deemed a doughnut here.
Calling something that has zero holes a 'donut hole', will absolutely have a local refer to you as a doughnut tho...
It's called a doughnut hole because it's implied to be the piece of dough that was punched out to make a regular circular doughnut that has a hole in it.
Oh I understand that. I was just being facetious; my point was more to do with the definition of a hole, and how it's used here to describe something that definitely is not a hole.
If we're pedantic, then the doughnut hole is the middle bit of the original doughnut, now that this part has been punched out.
Doughnuts are typically made from a straight piece of dough shaped into a circle, not a hole punched.
Doughnut holes are usually just bits of the dough, prior to forming into a circle, that's cut up and fried
Typically, but not always.
Though if you bake donuts then you're a heretic
Roller if you're fancy, smaller operations just use a ring cutter. (Source, me, I was baker and hand-cut a couple thousand circles most nights) We didn't actually fry the holes though, more for process efficiency than anything. They got re-formed into a slightly firmer dough for cinnamon rolls and fritters. "Donut holes" were cut with a small roller with a hexagon pattern.
Cake donuts are indeed different because they're made from a liquid batter. Fancy hopper on an arm over the fryer, drops perfect rings of batter into the oil when you turn a crank.
WHAT.
You mean they don't have a donut hole puncher that punches out the hole??
I have only ever rolled doughnuts, but it seems some people practice darker arts...
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But how do you differentiate between a doughnut ( o ) and a doughnut o. I'd be so pissed if I asked for a doughnut and someone handed me this tiny shit.
One without a hole is a doughnut. One with is a doughnut ring.
The nut in the word is to already show that it is in a nut shape. So it would be doughball and doughnut.
What part of the UK are they called doughballs? ive never heard them called that.
Only reference I can think of is Pizza express' dough balls, but they're a savoury dough ball rather than sweet like a doughnut.