olykoek

[ol-i-kook]

noun

Hudson Valley: Older Use.

1. doughnut.

Word History and Origins

Origin of olykoek¹

1800–10, < New York Dutch; compare Dutch oliekoek oilseed cake, equivalent to olie oil + koek cake ( cookie )

Example Sentences

Young visitors can make scented balm, watch wool thread being spun, play old-fashioned board and card games and enjoy traditional treats like apple butter and olykoek, or deep-fried dough, from the house’s outdoor hearth.

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In New York City, the doughnut no longer resembles the Dutch olykoek that Anna Joralemon started selling in 1673 from a shop on lower Broadway.

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I think what you and I call the donut — fried flour with raised yeast and a hole in the center — has its strongest ethnic roots in the olykoek.

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There was the doughty doughnut, the tender olykoek, and the crisp and crumbling cruller; sweet cakes and short cakes, ginger cakes and honey cakes, and the whole family of cakes.

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