Doughnuts Grade5.PDF READING
Doughnuts Grade5.PDF READING
Doughnuts Grade5.PDF READING
Fried dough has been made all around the world. Dutch settlers who brought apple and cream pies, cookies, and
cobbler to the New World also introduced doughnuts. Their doughnuts were called olykoeks, or oily cakes
sweet dough balls fried in pork fat. Early doughnuts were often filled with apples, prunes, or raisins. The name
doughnut may refer to the nuts put in the middle of the dough ball to prevent an uncooked center or possibly
to dough knotsanother popular shape for the olykoeks. Today, doughnut and donut are used
interchangeably.
There are three stories about why doughnuts have holes in the center. In 1847, Elizabeth Gregory was known
for making a very fine olykoek with a hint of nutmeg and a filling of hazelnuts or walnuts. Her son, Hanson
Crockett Gregory, was a 16-year-old sailor who invented the doughnut hole.
One story says that on June 22, 1847, Captain Gregorys ship hit a sudden storm. He impaled the doughnut as a
spoke on the steering wheel to keep his hands free. The spoke drove a hole through the raw center of the
doughnut. Captain Gregory liked the doughnuts better that way, and the doughnut hole was born.
In the second story, he didn't like nuts, so he poked them out and ordered the ship's cook to remove the centers
from doughnuts.
The third version comes from an interview with Captain Gregory in the Washington Post. Gregory didn't like
the greasiness of doughnuts twisted into various shapes, or the raw center of regular doughnuts. He suddenly
had the idea to punch a hole with the ship's tin pepper box. When he got home, he taught this new doughnut
trick to his mother.
Making a hole increased the surface area exposed to the hot oil and eliminated the uncooked center.
"Now in them days we used to cut the doughnuts into diamond shapes, and also into long strips, bent in half,
and then twisted. I don't think we called them doughnuts thenthey was just 'fried cakes' and 'twisters.'
Well, sir, they used to fry all right around the edges, but when you had the edges done the insides was all raw
dough. And the twisters used to sop up all the grease just where they bent, and they were tough on the digestion.
Well, I says to myself, 'Why wouldn't a space inside solve the difficulty?' I thought at first I'd take one of the
strips and roll it around, then I got an inspiration, a great inspiration. I took the cover off the ship's tin pepper
box, andI cut into the middle of that doughnut the first hole ever seen by mortal eyes!
Well, sir, them doughnuts was the finest I ever tasted. No more indigestionno more greasy sinkersbut just
well-done, fried-through doughnuts.
1.) What could be a title for this passage?
a.) Donuts Around the World
b.) How the Donut Changed Over Time
c.) Nicknames for Donuts
d.) The First Bakery
2.) Why do you think the Washington Post interviewed Captain Gregory?
a.) They wanted to know the places he had sailed to.
b.) They believed someone else invented the doughnut hole.
c.) They wanted to know how the doughnut hole came into being.
d.) They were interested in why doughnuts were so greasy.
6.) Which of the following items was not introduced by the Dutch?
a.) cream pies
b.) ice cream
c.) cookies
d.) cobbler
9.) What does the word "introduced" mean in the following sentence:
Fried dough has been made all around the world. Dutch settlers who brought apple and cream pies,
cookies, and cobbler to the New World also introduced doughnuts.
a.) made
b.) discovered
c.) brought to a new place
d.) fought