See first quotation.
1809. An enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog’s fat, and called dough nuts, or oly koeks—a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, excepting in genuine Dutch families.—W. Irving, ‘A History of New-York,’ i. 157 (1812). (N.E.D.)
1809. Every love sick maiden fondly crammed the pockets of her hero with ginger-bread and dough nuts.—Id., ii. 109 (1812).
1813. The cakes and the creams, the doughnuts and the sugar plums.—The Stranger, Albany, N.Y., Oct. 9, p. 135.
1826. On one corner of the table stood an article that would have staggered Heliogabulus, namely, a comical [sic] turret of dough-nuts—emphatically called dough-nuts. This detestable esculent sometimes resembles one of your inflexible little soup dumplins; at others it appears to be a kind of mongrel pancake.—Boston Monthly Magazine, July.
1835. A ragged little urchin jumping into the rear of his vehicle, whose appetite, not often appeased, was excited by the view of the “yankee notion, yclept doughnuts,” and the fragrant odor which they emitted.—‘Harvardiana,’ i. 127.
1847. Other dainties awaited us as the result of killing hogs. They were “dough-nuts” and “wonders.” [For fuller quotation see WONDERS.]—Dr. D. Drake, ‘Pioneer Life in Kentucky,’ p. 97.
1847. Out dropped the half of a chicken and two doughnuts, which he had stowed away for a lunch.—Robb, ‘Streaks of Squatter Life,’ &c., p. 27 (Phila.). (Italics in the original.)
1850. Again Bebby began to cry for Memmy’s dough-nut. “The children shall never have another dough-nut in the world!” threatened their mother.—S. Judd, ‘Richard Edney,’ p. 246–7.
1857. Cider and dough-nuts were served out to us in large quantities.—Knick. Mag., l. 239 (Sept.).
