Under low lodges of canvas or bowers of pine branches the women were at work boiling meat or cooking a rude sort of cruller.
"The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop"
Hamlin Garland
crullers-I'm sure you don't know what a cruller is, Frank.
"A Duet"
A. Conan Doyle
Then, from one pocket and another, Master Plummer drew out two small cakes frosted with white and sprinkled with red sugar, three inches or more of Bologna sausage, a cruller, a small bag of peanuts, an apple, and two sticks of candy which looked much the worse for wear, because of having been placed in his pocket without a covering.
"The Princess and Joe Potter"
James Otis