A provincial name for “crullers.” Mr. Bartlett says, “In Nantucket, a kind of cake.”
1847. Other dainties awaited us as the result of killing hogs. They were “dough-nuts” and “wonders,” the latter being known to you under the name of crullers. I can find neither word in Webster, and from early association prefer the former…. At the proper season, “wonders” made our supper, and although I never made the dough, I was quite au fait in lifting them, at the proper time, out of the boiling fat, and equally adroit in managing them at the table.—Dr. D. Drake, ‘Pioneer Life in Kentucky,’ pp. 97, 108.
