Since we've now moved on to miscellaneous sweetened dough products, I can mention that as a child in the mid-70s, when there were not many from the subcontinent in the town where I grew up, I used to describe jilebis as "Indian donuts". For the ball type of donut, as opposed to the ring type, one could substitute gulab jamun, little spheres of deep fried goo, tasting as if they are only 40% dough, the other 60% sugar. Indian sweets definitely are, too much so for my taste, I still shudder whenever I think about kulfi.