Lincoln Chapel United Methodist Church Gallery

Donut Day 2005
     The Lenten Season was ushered in this year by Lincoln Chapel's Donut Day. Almost every year, the church gets together to mix and cut and fry those donuts. Fun and fellowship is shared among the help and there is always time to take a break, share a cup of coffee, and talk.
     The Lenten Season was ushered in this year by Lincoln Chapel's Donut Day. Almost every year, the church gets together to mix and cut and fry those donuts. Fun and fellowship is shared among the help and there is always time to take a break, share a cup of coffee, and talk.
     The helpers who arrive have fine-tuned the process, making it appear easy. Help arrives at staggered times, coming in shifts as it were, to begin the next phase of making donuts. Those who have made donuts before, know that once they get started, they will be busy at their task until the next set of help arrives, moving the donuts one step closer to being delivered.
     Once the dough is mixed, it is placed in a warm place to raise. As the cutters arrive, the basement fills with the smell of yeast. Soon table upon table will be filled with boards covered in donuts. The fryers will soon arrive and frying will begin. A whole new smell will fill the basement.
     Every year, the sugaring table has been the place of honor for those members who have graduated from the mixing and cutting and frying. Their job is the sweetest as they get to play like children in pans of sugar. This is the place where everyone visits, not only to talk to the help but to find 'rejects' among the piles of donuts.
     Those who do the sugaring have the responsibility to weed out those donuts that are too small, too dark, not dark enough, or totally out of shape. You might think that a pile of those 'rejected' donuts would be seen on the table but it is normal for the help to have to wait for donuts. Sometimes the sugarers will make a reject just to appease the help.
     Once the donuts have cooled enough to bagged, the orders are filled and faithful men and women arrive to deliver those donuts to businesses in the area. The cleanup crew will arrive and start putting the basement back to normal. By Sunday, no one would know that Donut Day had come and gone, except for the smell of donuts.