Doughnuts. Dutch.
1832. Garnishing their [Dutch descendants’] table with “Malck and Suppawn,” with rullities, and their hands with long stemmed pipes.—Watson, ‘Historic Tales of New York,’ p. 127.
1844. He received a rooletjeer (doughnut) from the kind hand that had supplied this diurnal want of nature … for the last forty years.—Miss Sedgwick, ‘Tales and Sketches,’ p. 79 (N.Y.). (Italics in the original.)
