Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
DOn'ts For
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DOu@hnutS

tionaI pastime Even dgnifed George Washing
ton was So stepped in tradition is the
sponging up coffee with crers that weighty books
etiquette been turned out the subject And now
nutronss coming along with some new rules Tor the
game.
These food experts have quarrel with doughnut-
dunIng On the contrary, they urge that you splash
around in coffee providing you can get III all you
want-but not TO the exclusion OF your heafth require
Too many people, they confne their break
and lunches to nothing but dunking
At recent annual convention of the National AS
sociaton of Dunkers in City Edward Dougherty
member of this java-dppng society called attention
the fact that one in every three fails TO OBTAIN
adequate proportion Of fats protens vita
Minis minerals and the other ingredients of weiiba-
ancod meal they limit their morning midday meal
o a dunk of a doughnut"
The Committee Nutrition for Industry of the Ma
Research Council recently conducted survey OF
5000 workers who reported for duty before a. m OF
this number they found that only small proportion had
had home breakfast The majority popped into cor
restaurant grabbed doughnut and coffee and hur-
red to work
Dr r. f. Dublin the well-known bochemst reported
efficiency doughnutdunters fell below
par after two hours work They had failed to have
rounded breakfast, they tired easily result
do his best days work, the happy bunker
should eat addition his sinker cereal with
cream orange grapefruit juice bacon and eggs
rolls II not necessary TO have these every
ybu the sinker far should eat at least one of the
other foods with his meal in order to give his body the
nutrition IL needs
If he adheres to these health rules the bunker
gage favore sport all he wants to- Emily Post to
the contrary Despite the fowns of equettemakers the
Dunng Association and kindred societies. have
turned out their weghty tones the art of fine
dunkng The basic principle Of the compeat bunker is
summed up this
Dunk yes dunk please take
To keep your fingers in the air!
The doughnut only must get wet
else it's not good etiquettel
Although doughnuts know them did not
exist in George Washingtons day the presi
dent lent his approval to dunking In a little booklet
penned entitled Rules OF Cvty and Decent Behavior in
Company and Conversation" Washington okayed dunking
warned that wasn't cricket soak than you
put your mouth at time"
Researches into the origin development the
doughnut show that credit putting the hole
Captain Hanson Gregory of Thoma
son Maine The resourcefu skipper has been dead these
many years, but his memory-and his contribution to
American gastronomicsis honored annually at banquet
a old Thorndke Hotel in Rockland Maine
There, the Captains birthday gather 20 dunk
doughnuts and how, back S47 Gregory had the
inspiration to do something about the heavy and goocy
cakes of his day In the late shippers words
this is the story of how he came to put the hole in the
douehnut
"TNyisters las fried cakes were known then, used to
fry all right around the edges but when the edges
the middle stn
4 though, opening the things up the middle might
do the trick took the tin off the ships pepper
box and cut small round hole in the middle of circle OF
dough
Then put the cake in the fat and watched it cook
lect that pulled out Of the pan sizzling
FIRST douehnut most people understand the word
Maybe hole amt so much but it's the best part ef
-f you'd THINK so II you ever tasted fried cake
back the 1s3Os
Down through the years the dOuEhnut has undergone
little change except that modern bakers improved
The content and changed IT "A highly nutritious food
r. size and shape II has remained the the
able exception coming IN 1888 when Mrs Arthur Eastman
OF lndanola Iowa created tho "doughnut bunker"
This a threc-sdtd triangular doughnut into which
wooden paddle had been fried with the dough Using
the paddle handle the bunker could Dip with noncha-
lance and iry fingers
With this triangular affair. one side can bc eaten 40
time The last bite be pulled gently from the haHdo
the same manner finishes an ice cream bar.