Crossword clues for cruller
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cruller \Crul"ler\ (kr[u^]l"l[~e]r), n. [Cf. Curl.] A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat. [Also written kruller.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1805, American English, apparently from Dutch kruller, from krullen "to curl," from Middle Dutch crullen, related to curl.
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) A donut / doughnut in the form of a twisted ring
WordNet
n. small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts [syn: twister]
Wikipedia
A traditional cruller (or twister) is a fried pastry often made from a rectangle of dough, with a cut made in the middle that allows it to be pulled over and through itself producing twists in the sides of the pastry. Crullers have been described as resembling "a small, braided torpedo" and having been "a staple of the New England diet since the Pilgrims' day". Some other cruller styles are made of a denser dough somewhat like that of a cake doughnut formed in a small loaf or stick shape, but not always twisted. Crullers may be topped with plain powdered sugar; powdered sugar mixed with cinnamon; or icing. However, a "French cruller" is a fluted, ring-shaped doughnut made from choux pastry with a light airy texture. The French cruller in German is called a Spritzkuchen.
Usage examples of "cruller".
Michael finished off the cruller, then ate two more, pretending they actually tasted good to him, then he shoved away his tray.
Harold had, with commendable forethought, brought with her a big box of crullers, in nowise disturbed by the thought that it might spoil their appetites for the delayed luncheon.
Zach asked when the coffee was down to dregs and the crullers reduced to a few crumbs.
He got one of the crullers set up just the way he liked it and took a big bite.
He picked up one of the uneaten crullers and twisted it with both hands until it broke into sticky chunks.
While she continued to eat, Amaya began beating up dough at the other end of the table, making her version of txurros, the fried crullers Luis had introduced her to when they first met, three months ago.
As they passed it, Margaret could see a woman cooking crisp crullers in a cauldron of oil, pulling the hot pastries out with wooden tongs and spreading them on a cloth.
Marko came up alongside, towering over her in the chair, and thumped a plate of crullers down.
Conversing about politics, under such a stimulus, would have prov'd animated enough, without reckoning in as well the effects of drink, tobacco, whose smoke one inhales here willy-nilly with every breath, and sugar, to be found at every hand in lucent brown cones great and little, Ic'd Cupcakes by the platter-ful, all manner of punches and flips, pies of the locality, crullers, muffins, and custards, no table that does not hold some sweet memento, for those it matters to, of the cane thickets, the chains, the cruel Sugar-Islands.
There was the doughty doughnut, the tender olykoek, and the crisp and crumbling cruller.
A few rootbeers, sometimes a tuna sandwich or a cruller from the bakery where Sully's mom worked, but no presents.