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09 Jun 10 - 05:21 PM (#2924166) Subject: BS: Best Doughnuts From: SPB-Cooperator What supermarket sells the best doughnuts? My nomination (UK) is Morrisons. Nice size, well filled, and good value. |
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09 Jun 10 - 05:32 PM (#2924175) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: GUEST,mg I can't eat them but I have recently heard other places do not have maple bars...is this an urban legend or is it really true...they are so good. mg |
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09 Jun 10 - 07:25 PM (#2924269) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: kendall Hannaford's has molasses and chocolate donuts. Almost as good as home made. |
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09 Jun 10 - 09:59 PM (#2924330) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Rapparee Fred Meyer carries them, mg -- at least around here. But the best doughnuts were those my mother made. Unfortunately, she took the recipe with her so I got to be good so I can go heaven when I leave this world so I can have more of her doughnuts. |
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09 Jun 10 - 10:06 PM (#2924334) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Amergin Voodoo Donuts! |
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10 Jun 10 - 12:02 AM (#2924363) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: open mike http://www.secretdonutrecipe.com/ http://www.secretdonutrecipe.com/page1/page1.html here is a you tube donut video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bITguiRnA-c i am getting hungry!! we used to have a krispy kreme donut shop near here but it closed down |
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10 Jun 10 - 01:11 AM (#2924378) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Amergin Krispy Kremes are very mediocre.....I never could understand their popularity. |
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10 Jun 10 - 02:39 AM (#2924388) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: VirginiaTam Always loved Krispy Kreme... think it is the sugar glaze. They are ludicrously expensive in the UK compared to US. This is a good thing! |
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10 Jun 10 - 06:30 AM (#2924471) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Allan C. I was a professional donut baker for a few years and baked in a number of bakeries. I can say with some authority that virtually all of the pre-packaged donuts found in groceries are crap. Some groceries that have their own bake shops can produce decent donuts, but the very best, IMHO, come from Mr. Donut shops. For me, the very best donut is a plain, cake donut fresh from the frier - any older than that and I don't want it. |
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10 Jun 10 - 07:12 AM (#2924489) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: GUEST,Kendall Raparie, would you settle for my formula? |
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10 Jun 10 - 06:48 PM (#2925041) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: lefthanded guitar Krispy Kreme is the best donut, but they definitely taste better down south. I don't know why. Same reason Nathan's hot dogs are best in Coney Island, I guess. |
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10 Jun 10 - 09:09 PM (#2925124) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Little Hawk I don't think anyone makes real donuts anymore...except for the few people who still make them at home. All the grocery donuts are pathetic, and the same goes for all the donuts sold in fast food outlets. I remember having REAL donuts way back in the 60s! They were the last real donuts I ever had. My mother made them. |
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10 Jun 10 - 09:18 PM (#2925132) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Joe_F My information may be out of date, but I believe that in New York City the meanest subway-station vendor has access to better raised doughnuts than can be found in any other city. Krispy Creme did a fair imitation, and it was available in Boston for a while, but there seems to be no market for real doughnuts here; for the native barbarians, a doughnut means a toy truck tire, anchor ring, lifesaver, or boiled sphincter with sugar on it. |
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10 Jun 10 - 10:05 PM (#2925155) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Rapparee Kendall, if you make 'em I'll try to gulp them down. If they're not any good I'll gulp them back up. And let's not forget crullers. |
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10 Jun 10 - 10:09 PM (#2925158) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: number 6 Kendall mentioned those molasses doughnuts found at Hannaford's (a supermarket chain in the state of Maine). They must be the same ones I've seen at Hannaford's ... a brand called Mrs. Dunster's. Mrs. Dunster's Doughnuts are made in Sussex, New Brunswick. Crazy thing is they don't sell those molasses doughnuts here in New Brunswick. Mrs. Dunster's biLL |
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10 Jun 10 - 10:29 PM (#2925162) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Q (Frank Staplin) Most are edible, if they don't have jelly fillings. Cinnamon buns are trumps! |
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10 Jun 10 - 11:11 PM (#2925170) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Bobert Was 'round 1:30 in the mornin' back in '69 and my band had just finished a gig somewhere in or around Richomnd and that meant... ...Krispy Kreme... Yeah, it was out Broad Street just past Staples Mill Rd. on the right and seems that all the bands would end up there after their gigs... I don't know if it was the doughnuts, which I thought were great, or the funkiness of the joint but yeah... Krispy Kreme... BTW, it's still there... B~ |
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10 Jun 10 - 11:19 PM (#2925176) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: open mike darn it all, anyway!! after reading this thread, then cruising you tube for recipes and how to videos, (some which advocated using refridgerated biscuit dough...yuck) when i got to town today i had a hankering for grease and sugar and went to the donut shop for a maple donut. (embarassing...as it is right across the street from the health food store, where I "should" have been shopping)....yumm for 75 cents i had a taste treat! the shop is called, Helen's Donut Nook, and brings back memories of making donuts with my mother, HELEN! I seem to recall a recipe that uses potatoes in the dough/batter...see: http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,potato_donut,FF.html Speaking of round things with holes in the middle -- perhaps bagels are better for you because they are boiled, (and baked) not fried in grease-- http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/homemade-bagels-recipe/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagel http://www.dacodoc.net/video.php?video=bagels (in french...) |
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10 Jun 10 - 11:34 PM (#2925179) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: LadyJean Absolutely, positively the best donuts in the world are the ones you make at home, yourself, fresh out of the deep fryer, and just shaken in a paper bag full of powdered sugar. Of course it makes a horrendous mess. I haven't made donuts in years. Next best, go to Prantl's bakery on Walnut Street in Pittsburgh. Their donuts should not even be spoken of on the same day as Krispy Kreme's |
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11 Jun 10 - 02:06 AM (#2925226) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: mousethief Raised donuts are only donuts by analogy. Real donuts are made from batter. There used to be a donut shop in the U District in Seattle back when I was in college ("university" if you're a Brit). It was tucked in a tiny space in between two storefronts, maybe 8 feet wide at most -- the back counter, where the equipment and stuff was, then the bar, then the stools, then the walkway. Maybe 2' wide tops, each. I would go in there in the mornings and buy two still-warm donuts, and a little carton of milk. The stools were all full of old men in working clothes. I got the donuts in a bag, and ate them on my way to my first class. By the time I ate the first one, the grease from the second one had made the bag transparent where it touched. No powdered sugar, no cinnamon, no glaze, no jelly, no artificial maple frosting. Just donuts as God intended them. (or as Darwin intended them, if you're an atheist) |
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11 Jun 10 - 06:27 AM (#2925314) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Wolfhound person This thread was started by a UK poster, I think. Any recommendations from this side of the pond? Greggs used to be good before they went national and mass-produced..... Best ones I ever had were in Copenhagen, in a park. Yum Paws |
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11 Jun 10 - 06:37 AM (#2925317) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Stu Jammy doughnuts from Brassingtons in Macclesfield. |
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11 Jun 10 - 06:50 AM (#2925326) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Penny S. Real doughnuts are made from bread dough. Hence the word dough. They are subspherical with no hole, hence the element nut. They have jam in the middle and sugar in the outside. Unless they are Geo. Ort's Dunstable doughnuts, which are smaller and sold in bakers' dozens. I think it is not wise to throw around the word real when discussing food with well accepted variants. A Krispy Creme outlet opened near me, and I was going to try them, but watching through the window I was not impressed with aspects of their hygiene. Penny |
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11 Jun 10 - 12:30 PM (#2925485) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: olddude tim hortons , tim hortons, tim hortons, tim hortons !! |
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11 Jun 10 - 01:25 PM (#2925519) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: PoppaGator Beignets, a French variant of the humble donut, are available in the US only in New Orleans, and only from a very few outlets even here; they're unique and don't really bear comparison to "regular" donuts. They MUST be consumed very shortly after they are produced ~ otherwise, they assume the density and texture of hockey pucks. This infinitesimal shelf life dictates that beignets are available only on-the-spot where they are produced. Krispy Kreme opened a couple of stores here a few years ago. One ~ located in the French Quarter less than a block from beignet vendor Cafe du Monde ~ quickly went out of business, but several suburban KK outlets continue to thrive. I like the KK "original glazed" when purchased immediately off the automated assembly line. Their various other flavors do not seem particularly special to me, and I never buy them when packaged for sale at supermarkets, etc. |
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11 Jun 10 - 01:38 PM (#2925537) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: mousethief Real doughnuts are made from bread dough. Hence the word dough. They are subspherical with no hole, hence the element nut. Faugh. Yet another victim of the confusion between etymology and meaning. |
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11 Jun 10 - 02:03 PM (#2925567) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Rapparee Beignets with chicory coffee at the Cafe du Monde, watching the folks in Jackson Square or better, watching The River flow by.... Ah, bliss. |
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11 Jun 10 - 04:03 PM (#2925690) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: open mike here's another fried treat (no rising required...batter instead of dough..)funnel cake - often found at fairs and festivals... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Lv3vgmfRw&feature=fvw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szeQihDGXZ4&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xyplVdOGoI can you imagine being in a booth in the hot hot summer time witha vat of frying oil making these??!! yikes! |
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11 Jun 10 - 06:56 PM (#2925821) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: GUEST,Russ I'm a Krispy Kreme guy. I love the Original glazed, hot out of the grease. If you're with a friend or 2 buy 2 dozen. Eat the first dozen while walking to the car. It is unusual for me to have day old Krispy Kremes. They are a pale reflection of the hot fresh originals. But they still taste better than anything else I can buy in my area. Russ (Permanent GUEST) |
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12 Jun 10 - 12:06 AM (#2926011) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: GUEST,Sandy (lost cookie) Tim Horton's glazed sour cream are my pick from doughnut shops but Mrs. Dunster's are my pick at the supermarkets. My wife can beat either with her home fryer but she knows that if she cooks them I will sit down and eat them until all are gone, and that is not a good thing for me! |
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12 Jun 10 - 12:25 AM (#2926013) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: LadyJean Legend has it that a pilgrim woman was making fried cakes during an Indian raid. As she was pulling one out of the fat, an arrow went through the middle of the cake, and the donut was born. It is, of course, only legend. |
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12 Jun 10 - 08:10 PM (#2926472) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: kendall Actually the donut was invented right here in Camden Maine by a sea captain who didn't like the solid gob of fried dough. He made a hole in it so the fat would reach to the interior and it would be fried all over the thing. Look, you guys can have all the Krispy Cremes you want, just don't call them donuts. OK? |
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13 Jun 10 - 05:08 PM (#2927007) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: GUEST,Russ Kendall, What is the source of your definition of "donut"? Russ (Permanent GUEST) |
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13 Jun 10 - 06:12 PM (#2927046) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Alan Day Well it is traditional that if ever I walk on Brighton Palace Pier I have a couple of freshly made American Doughnuts. As for the taste I do not think I can recommend them, but it's TRADITION !! Al |
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13 Jun 10 - 08:35 PM (#2927124) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: frogprince "Beignets with chicory coffee at the Cafe du Monde, watching the folks in Jackson Square or better, watching The River flow by.... Ah, bliss." Believe it; just once so far for me, but maybe again one of these years. |
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13 Jun 10 - 08:43 PM (#2927129) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: kendall Russ, Maine history. |
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13 Jun 10 - 08:49 PM (#2927133) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: kendall Check out wikipedia. The origin of the donut is sorta like Paul Bunyan. Maine lore says he was born in Maine, but Minnesota also claims him. Considering that there was a Maine long before there was a Minnesota, well, go figure. |
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13 Jun 10 - 08:50 PM (#2927135) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: bobad "Beignets with chicory coffee at the Cafe du Monde, watching the folks in Jackson Square or better, watching The River flow by.... Ah, bliss." I, too have had the pleasure a couple of times and hope to have it again before shuffling off. It's one of those experiences that is so site specific that it can be imitated but never duplicated. |
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13 Jun 10 - 09:47 PM (#2927176) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: GUEST,homegroan It does not matter the batter of the blather of this thread. What ever the weather... Or...whether....you call them Buck Balls Ginger Nuts Or ... donuts Homegrown, and home-fried... Are the only sort that should keep a folk-forum satisfied. |
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13 Jun 10 - 09:58 PM (#2927185) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: GUEST,Russ Kendall, Thanks, but since I am not from Maine my knowledge of Maine history is limited. I've never been to Maine so I have never eaten a donut in that state. All the definitions of "donut" and "doughnut" I have looked at include no essential characteristics that rule out Krispy Kremes. Russ (Permanent GUEST) |
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13 Jun 10 - 11:03 PM (#2927218) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: number 6 "I took up all of my winnings, and I gave my little Bessie half And she tore it up and threw it in my face, just for a laugh Now there's one thing in the whole wide world, I sure do like to see That's how that little sweet thing of mine, dips her doughnut in my tea" .......excerpt from "Up on Cripple Creek" by Robbie Robertson Back in my senior year in high school my friend Greg and I knew this older woman (all of the age of 25) who ...... oh never mind biLL |
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14 Jun 10 - 01:18 AM (#2927249) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Desert Dancer Well you guys were just a bit late for Doughnut Day. See also Wikipedia on Natinoal Doughnut Day, wherein the item is defined as "an edible, torus-shaped piece of dough which is deep-fried and sweetened", FWIW. ~ Becky in Tucson |
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14 Jun 10 - 01:47 AM (#2927255) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Alice Beignets with chicory coffee at the Cafe du Monde ...yes, something that everyone should experience at least once! Let the good times roll. |
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14 Jun 10 - 01:51 AM (#2927257) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Alice I experienced this in 1986. Memories.... Cafe du Monde, New Orleans, beignet, French Quarter |
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14 Jun 10 - 06:38 AM (#2927357) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: kendall Russ, everything evolves including the original donut. Those great gobs of sugary stuff are examples. Hell, even Rock and roll is now called music by some! |
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14 Jun 10 - 07:03 PM (#2927897) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Jerry Rasmussen A Krispy Kreme opened near here about a year ago to great fanfare. It went out of business a couple of weeks ago. Couldn't compete with Dunkin' Donuts. Nothing touches home made doughnuts, although there's a restaurant near here that makes them fresh, every day... just lightly dipped in sugar. They're all weird shaped, just like home made. I could eat 100. |
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14 Jun 10 - 08:52 PM (#2927932) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Ed T The wide world of doughnuts, from thinkquest: http://library.thinkquest.org/J003336/ |
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13 Jul 24 - 06:35 AM (#4205396) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler I'm refreshing this thread as I was wondering about how doughnut shaped came to be a description of a toroid. I presume that this was an invention from the USA. I never saw a toroidal doughnut in the UK until the mid 1960s, they were always a spherical shape with sugar coating and jam injected into the middle of the ball. When I was just at starting school age I remember crossing the road with my father to the bakery where he needed to discuss something with the baker, my godfather. We went into the works at the back, once upon a time an ironfoundry, and there was the machine that mixed the dough and produced the balls of dough which came out down a sort of helter-skelter spiral on the outside ready to be deep fried. I was given one to eat, almost too hot to hold. A memmory for life! Robin |
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13 Jul 24 - 02:21 PM (#4205419) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Backwoodsman As a Limey whose experience of doughnuts is pretty limited (mostly, but not limited to, Morrisons, and fresh ones bought from doughnut stands at Lincoln Christmas Markets over several years), the best I’ve ever tasted were Tim Horton’s Boston Doughnuts during our trips to Canada (ON, AB, BC). IMHO, but YMMV and I’m cool with that… |
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13 Jul 24 - 03:12 PM (#4205424) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: robomatic With great affection I recall several children's books called "Homer Price" stories. In one of them Homer agrees to watch a donut shop but does something to the automatic donut machine to turn it on, and then he can't or doesen't know how to turn it off, sort of a 'sorcerer's apprentice' situation. He is stacking donuts all over the shop. In another story he learns a rhyming reframe that can't be stoppeuntil he teaches it to someone else. There may be fractured neurons involved. Mine. Biden my time I guess. I also recall with great affection hanging out at Dunkin' Donuts, which was an east coast and also interstate highway chain which in my memory sold good donuts and coffee. I even have one of their original coffee cups which weighs damn near a pound and is suitable for home defense. I haven't been in one for many years as I do not need medical professionals to tell me those things are way off limits to me now. |
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14 Jul 24 - 08:10 AM (#4205454) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Neil D olddude had it right 14 years ago when he posted: tim hortons , tim hortons, tim hortons, tim hortons ! Back then you had to go to Canada to get them, but there are now a few franchises scattered around the US. The closest one to where I live is 50 miles away but any time we weekend in Pittsburgh we stop on the way home and grab a couple boxes of assorted Timbits. |
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14 Jul 24 - 11:23 AM (#4205463) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Charmion Tim Horton’s old-fashioned plain is — IMNSOHO — the world’s best widely available commercial doughnut. Flavoured with nutmeg, it has a slightly crisp crust and is not sickeningly sweet. But the very best doughnuts I have ever eaten were made at an Ottawa diner (the Mirror Grill) and sold for a dime. A plate of them sat on the counter under a big glass dome. Also flavoured with nutmeg, those doughnuts were yeast-raised and deep-fried. The Mirror Grill disappeared in the early 1970s, about the time I joined the Forces — I came back from Cornwallis for Christmas, and there it was: gone. And its wonderful doughnuts with it. *Sob* |
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14 Jul 24 - 11:28 AM (#4205464) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: gillymor The best ones I've had around SWFL are Duck Donuts. They make a wide variety of flavors and do custom ones but I like their plain cake donuts, best I've had since my Mom's. |
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14 Jul 24 - 06:01 PM (#4205482) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Charmion's brother Andrew Charmion, do you not recall the excellent lightly-glazed doughnuts of Glebe's cafeteria? They were also a dime. I could not resist them. |
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14 Jul 24 - 07:55 PM (#4205487) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Charmion Oh, yes; Glebe did a good doughnut, but they didn’t have nutmeg in them. Silver medal. |
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15 Jul 24 - 04:27 AM (#4205495) Subject: RE: BS: Best Doughnuts From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler I tried googling for a picture of the dough rolling machine but can't find one anywhere, lots of machines to make torroidal doughnuts though. Robin |
