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One of the most beloved foods in the United States is the doughnut or as it is popularly spelled, donut. Who invented the doughnut? Where did it come from? What is it made of? Why is it called a donut or doughnut? Why do I care?

Why? Because my beloved hubbuddy, frogdropping, challenged me to write about the history of the doughnut. So here is what I have learned from copious, painstaking research.

History of the Doughnut

To begin with, there are a number of conflicting statements about the origin of the doughnut;

It may be Chinese in origin.

But Germany, France, the Netherlands and Latin America also have valid claims.

And this was hard to believe: archaeologists have unearthed fossilized bits of what look like – would you believe, doughnuts – underneath prehistoric Native American settlements in the southwestern U.S.

Dutch olie-koecken (oily cakes)
So no matter where they originated, here is how they came to America. Back in1669, there was a Dutch recipe for “olie-koecken” (oily cakes) which closely resembles today’s doughnut. It seems that Dutch and German cooks fried the left-over sweetened dough from baking bread in oil or pork fat and made small round fry-cakes.

The Dutch also made their leftovers fancier by shaping them into decorative knots (aha! dough-knots), and rolling them in sugar after frying. I also learned that since doughnuts tended not to cook through in the middle some cooks would put nuts – walnuts or hazelnuts – in the center (aha! dough-nuts).The Puritans (Pilgrims) discovered these small, round, delectable oily cakes while they were in the Netherlands and brought the recipe with them to the New World.

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When many new immigrants arrived at Ellis Island, New York, a jelly doughnut was the first food they wanted to taste because they believed it to be typically American.

Typical Doughnut Shop

Captain Hanson Gregory 1832-1921
When did the word, doughnut, become a part of our language?

The earliest occurrence I could find was in Washington Irving’s book, “History of New York (1809). He defined the word, so it probably wasn’t well known at the time, as “balls of sweetened dough fried in hog’s fat.” Ugh! The exclamation is mine, not Irving’s.

What about the Doughnut Hole?

You may well ask how did the doughnut, originally a solid round cake, develop a doughnut hole? There are conflicting theories about this, too. Here is my favorite:

Back in1847, Elizabeth Gregory, the mother of a ship captain, who lived in New England whipped up a batch of deep-fried dough using spices her son had given her from his cargo of nutmeg, cinnamon, and lemon rind. She made these deep-fried cakes for her son, Hanson, and his crew so they could store the pastry on long voyages. She believed it would help to ward off scurvy and colds, unaware of the benefits of citrus fruit. Mrs. Gregory inserted hazel nuts or walnuts in the center of the fried cakes where the dough often did not cook thoroughly. She called the pastry (aha!) dough-nuts.

Here is where the story gets curiouser and curiouser. Capt. Hanson Gregory always took credit for creating the hole in the doughnut. It is said that he gave the doughnut its first hole when, in the middle of a terrible storm and in order to get both hands on the ship’s wheel, he crammed one of his mother’s fried dough-nuts that he was holding onto one of the wood spokes of the wheel for safekeeping. Voila! A doughnut was born with a hold in the center.

He ordered the ship’s cook to henceforth prepare all dough-nuts with holes in the center, and shared his creation with the crew who swore It was the most delicious, delectable food they had ever tasted. Another variation of the story has Capt. Hanson poking holes in his mother’s dough-nuts because he did not like the soggy center where the dough was under-cooked. A third variation has our inventive captain using the tin cover of a pepper box to punch out a center hole – maybe he didn’t like nuts taking up space in his mother’s doughnuts.

The captain’s homestead no longer remains, but a plaque describing his achievement can be seen in a church yard in the township of Camden, Maine.

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Interview with the Captain

On March 26, 1916, Capt. Hanson Gregory gave an interview to the “Washington Post” newspaper. Here’s the true story of his inventing the hole in the doughnut in his words: “I guess it was about ‘47, when I was 16, that I discovered the hole which was later to revolutionize the doughnut industry. Now in them days we used to cut the doughnuts into diamond shapes, and also into long strips, bent in half, and then twisted … don’t think we called them doughnuts then – they was just ‘fried cakes’ and ‘twisters.’

“Well, sir, they used to fry all right around the edges, but the insides was all raw dough. Well, I says to myself, ‘Why wouldn’t a space inside solve the difficulty?’ and then I got a great inspiration. I took the cover off the ship’s tin pepper box, and cut into the middle of that doughnut the first hole ever seen by mortal eyes!

“Well, sir, them doughnuts was the finest I ever tasted. No more indigestion, no more greasy sinkers, just well-done, fried-through doughnuts. I went home to my old mother and I says to her, ‘Let me make some doughnuts for you.’ She says all right, so I made her one or two and then showed her how. She then made several batches and everybody was delighted and they never made doughnuts any other way except the way I showed her. Of course, lots of people joke about the hole in the doughnut. I’ve got a joke myself. Whenever anybody says to me: ‘Where’s the hole in the doughnut?’ I always answer: ‘It’s been cut out!’”

JFK's Berlin Speech

On June 26,1963, President John F. Kennedy made a speech in West Berlin. He was emphasizing the U.S. support for West Germany 22 months after the Communist East Germany state erected the Berlin Wall as a barrier to prevent movement between the East and the West. This speech, considered one of Kennedy’s best, contained the statement: “Ich bin ein Berliner.” See the video first and then I’ll explain how it relates to doughnuts.

German "Berliner" doughnut

"Ich bin ein Berliner," too
This is the entire last paragraph of Kennedy’s notable speech: “Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was ‘civis Romanus sum’ – I am a Roman citizen. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is ‘Ich bin ein Berliner.’ All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’”

So what was so noteworthy about Kennedy proclaiming himself as a “Berliner” – a citizen of Berlin? In many parts of Germany, round, full-of-jam doughnuts are called Berliners. So Kenney was announcing to all, “I am a jelly doughnut!”

Lassies handing out doughnuts WWI

Lassies cooking doughnuts WWI

Red Cross Doughnut Dollies WWII
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Although Captain Gregory came up with the idea for the hole in the doughnut, a fellow named John Blondell was awarded the patent for the first doughnut cutter in 1872. His version was made of wood, but an improved tin version with a fluted edge was patented in 1889.

Doughnuts and Doughboys

The U.S. Army didn’t invent doughnuts but it can take credit for advancing their popularity. During World War I (1914-1918), the volunteer ladies (known as “lassies”) of The Salvation Army prepared doughnuts for millions of doughboys to give the soldiers a taste of home. The word, doughboy, has at various times been used to refer to a dumpling in the British Navy, for a kind of doughnut, and as a corruption of the Spanish word, adobe.

But I believe that the phrase, doughboys, to describe U.S. infantrymen had its origins from the method the Salvation Army lassies used to create their doughnuts. They used dough from left-over flour, wine bottles as rolling pins, and then fried the fresh treats – often inside the metal helmets of the U.S. soldiers. Ergo – doughboys.

During World War II, American Red Cross women known as “Doughnut Dollies” served hot doughnuts to our soldiers wherever they were stationed. The Red Cross purchased enough flour between 1939 and 1946 to make 1.6 billion doughnuts for our servicemen and women.

Adolph Levitt, Inventor

First Doughnut Machine
Doughnuts Become Mechanized

The first doughnut machine was invented in 1920 in New York City by a man named Adolph Levitt, an enterprising refugee from czarist Russia. He had been selling hand-made fried doughnuts from his bakery and hungry theater crowds pressed him to find a way to produce his doughnuts in less time.

Levitt's doughnut machine was a huge hit causing the popularity of doughnuts to spread like wildfire. During the 20s, doughnuts began to be mass-produced and people couldn’t get enough of them.

This was the motto printed on each box of doughnuts sold in Levitt’s Mayflower coffee and donut shops: “As you ramble on through life, brother, Whatever be your goal, Keep your eye upon the doughnut, And not upon the hole.”

At the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1934 the doughnut was declared the “hit food of the Century of Progress.” That same year Levitt was making $25 million dollars annually from the sale of his doughnut machines to bakeries throughout the U.S.

Doughnut Dunking

According to legend, dunking doughnuts first became a trend when actress Mae Murray accidentally dropped a doughnut in her coffee one day at Lindy's Deli on Broadway. In the 1934 film. “It Happened One Night.” newspaperman Clark Gable teaches young runaway heiress Claudette Colbert how to "dunk". In 1937, a popular song proclaimed that you can live on coffee and doughnuts if "you're in love".

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New Doughnut Chains

In the 1940s and 50s doughnut chains such as Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and Dunkin’ Donuts were established. As coffee became more of a staple in bakeries across the U.S., the perception of the doughnut as a breakfast food increased. There was no stopping the fried oily cake.

Do you live in an area with a Krispy Kreme doughnut franchise? Then you owe it to yourself to try them. Most connoisseurs consider the only-glazed version as the lightest of yeast doughnuts and an absolute treat. Or try any of the filled ones. Dunkin' Donuts has wider national coverage, and many folks are fond of the Boston-crème-filled as well as the coffee. You can also find a great doughnut in the almost extinct mom-and-pop bakeries or at farmer's markets. Homemade and created with care, these delicious doughnuts are a taste of nostalgia.

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Sally Levitt Steinberg, the granddaughter of Adolph Levitt, inventor of the first doughnut machine, wrote "The Donut Book" (see at Amazon above) - a tribute to the health benefits of the delectable doughnut. The book is entertaining with many anecdotes. "...the word, doughnut, has become an umbrella that includes crullers, fritters, twists, rings, round cakes, those filled with jelly and cream, with holes and without, and even the holes themselves."

Doughnut vs. Bagel

Just as the number of doughnut shops had grown exponentially in the 1940s and 50s, small shops selling something called a bagel grew in the 1970s and 80s. As bagels became more popular, doughnuts began to be seen as the hick cousins to their city-slicker alternatives. And some people even began to call the doughnut unhealthy. Even though a bagel with cream cheese contains more than 450 calories, the poor doughnut was maligned for its average of 300 calories per fried cake.

In the 1990s, people started to seek comfort from the simpler things in life – such as doughnuts. In 1998, Winchell's House of Donuts in Pasadena, California created the world's largest doughnut. It weighed 5,000 pounds with a 95-foot diameter. It was made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Winchell's, but it also symbolized something more. It had been almost 150 years since Elizabeth Gregory gave her son her special home-made dough-nuts and the doughnut had survived.

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oops! Couldn't resist.

Jelly and creme-filled doughnuts
Doughnuts Are Good for You

The doughnut belongs to the world. Whether it is round, diamond-shaped, twisted like a cruller, fried or sweet is a matter of local preference. Whether you call it a donut (U.S.), a doughnut (UK), a zeppole (Italy), a beignet (France and Louisiana, too), a Berliner or a Bismarck (Germany), a pozsonyi (Hungary), churros (Latin America), a vada (India) or any other name in any other country, it remains a global favorite.

Are doughnuts the healthiest food you can eat? No. So why do I say they are good for you? Because they are a comfort food, relieve stress, and make you feel good.

Just check them out for MSG and eat them in moderation. One at a time!

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Today, in the U.S. alone we eat over 10 billion donuts a year.

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nicomp 2 years ago from Ohio, USA Level 6 Commenter

Yum!

Green Lotus 2 years ago from Atlanta, GA

What fun Hub drbj! I'm not sure I buy the donut on the spoke story, but I do know donuts are a decadent treat with or without the hole. When I indulge I can never eat just one.

De Greek 2 years ago from UK Level 3 Commenter

Well, you have managed to make doughnuts fascinating :D What else could one want out of life :-))

Verl 2 years ago from Melbourne

Nice article, now i feel like krispy kreme

breakfastpop 2 years ago Level 7 Commenter

What a tasty hub!

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Hey, nicomp. Welcome. Do you have a fave donut?

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Green Lotus - I agree. Donuts are often like peanuts - it's hard to eat just one.

I loved the donut on the wheel-spoke anecdote, too. Kinda wish it had been true. But then the good Captain, in his interview with the newspaper, gave us all the real story. He carved out holes with a pepper tin-cover to remove the sogginess. Clever.

Happy you enjoyed the Hub.

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Hi, De Greek, nice to meet you.

Thanks for the kind words. Yep, donuts are fascinating especially while being ingested.

And we have so many choices - almost mind-boggling.

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Thanks for the visit, Verl, and taking the time to comment.

You feel like Krispy Kreme?

What a coincidence? So do I

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Hi, BP - Now that donuts are considered appropriate for breakfast, perhaps we could meet at the bar some morning and have a few dozen? Each?

Website Examiner 2 years ago

A thoroughly researched and well-presented masterpiece. Never had I thought there could be so much to say on the subject, which hasn’t received nearly the attention it so richly deserves. This article is head and shoulders above typical "hub level," which should secure it a long life span and continuing popularity.

Sandyspider 2 years ago from Wisconsin, USA Level 1 Commenter

Donuts are indeed comfort food. Thanks for the good feeling.

Pamela99 2 years ago from Jacksonville, FL Level 8 Commenter

I never knew there was so much to know about donuts and they looked wonderful. Good hub.

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Hello, Web Examiner.

What a treat to have you visit and even more, what attractive language you used to describe this hub!

I may survive over a month on your kind accolades. I don't pay for excellent reviews, of course.

Where should I send your ten boxes of doughnuts?

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Thanks for stopping by, Sandyspider.

I'm delighted to have provided the means for a good feeling. Have a doughnut and you'll feel really comforted. If you eat it fast, the calories slide right down and out. Trust me.

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Hi, Pamela99.

Thanks for the visit and the kind words. Yes, I agree, the photos of these luscious creations are so appealing, it makes them hard to resist.

And like you, I never knew there were so many unusual stories connected with the history of doughnuts. Ah, the amazing minutiae we learn from Hubpages.

Stan Fletcher 2 years ago from Phoenix, AZ

I was sitting here eating a doughnut when I came across your hub. I'm amazed at the time it must have taken to put all of this together! My hat is off to you.

My fave donut is either a jelly filled or a bavarian cream with chocolate on top. I'm glad to know that eating it fast will keep it from sticking.

tony0724 2 years ago from san diego calif

Glad to know donuts are so good for ya. Bring on the maple log !

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Thanks, Stan, for the tip of the hat.

It did take a while to do the research but you know how you don't mind taking the time when you are writing about something you love . . . to eat.

One of my faves is the jelly donut or the maple top. But I don't discriminate. I'll eat most any kind but the plain ones - too tame.

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Hi, tony0724 - nice to meet you. Thanks for the visit.

I like maple frosted donuts, too. As well as a dozen other kinds.

Sherry 2 years ago

What a delicious article! I had a chocolate donut yesterday and wished I had the hole! It was so goood......

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Hi, Sherry. So nice to have you drop by. Happy you liked this article. Wow! You wished you had the hole, too. Now that's what I call a genuine doughnut/donut connoisseur.

Zsuzsy Bee 2 years ago from Ontario/Canada Level 2 Commenter

Okay you're the doughnut pro ....and if you say they're good for me... I'll take your word for it

great hub

regards Zsuzsy

frogdropping 2 years ago

*breezes in, late, hungry, donut ready*

Well drbj ... what can I say but - yummy! Fantastic hub, splendiforous and lip-lickingly good!

Of course donuts are good for you *ignores sugary, fried aspects*, why wouldn't they be? ;)

Interestingly, in Portugal, my favorite pastry/cake/whatever, is called a Bola de Berlim, which directly translates as 'ball of Berlin', otherwise a Berlin Ball. Like the Berliner, they lack the hole - but no jam.

Instead they inject a confectionary custard, which I always scrape out. That because the Bola itself is so damn light and tasty it doesn't need the custard.

Honestly, no donut I ever ate was as delicious and delightful as a Portuguese Bola de Berlim.

drbj - thankyou for answering my question. This is a wonderful, informative and interesting hub and I can see why it took some researching. BIG thanks - and should there ever be a question in your mind I could possibly answer ... you know where I am!

Nellieanna 2 years ago from TEXAS Level 8 Commenter

A fantastic and informative spotlight on the doughnut! Even though I "never touch the stuff" - I've eaten & even cooked my share in the past & can vividly remember the tastes, textures & magnetic aromas of each variety!

I don't feel the need for comfort food, my stress level is quite serene, I feel good most of the time. But if I were to indulge now, I'd be sure to cram all the most and best into the most amazingly cholesterol-rich comfort treat in the donut family I could think of, probably a cream puff or chocolate eclair! LOL (Though I confess I adore little baked cake-like donut holes wih lots of powdered sugar all over them.)

Thanks for the fun romp down memory lane, drbj!

TattoGuy 2 years ago

Wooooo what a brilliant hub moi friend, I used to love moi doughnuts but can't eat them as much now since after moi heart attack, stunning hub, well done !

Patty Inglish, MS 2 years ago from North America Level 7 Commenter

Yes, yes - Native Americans made several shapes of fry bread in bear, deer, and duck grease, to name a few. Many 1000s of years ago - at least 9,000 or 10,000 BC in Ohio. They added dried cranberries or fresh blueberries and drizzled honey

Wow! Now I have to make some. Thaks for this donut Hub. I sed to eat them often in my late teens and college, then lost the taste for them until I found Chinese donuts from friends. Very tasty and light.

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Hi, Zsuzsy Bee, what a pleasure to have you here.

I don't know if I can call myself a doughnut pro, yet. I might lose my amateur status. And I have loads of different doughnuts to check out first.

But I will gladly accept the approbabion and kind words. Since trust has now been established, could you use a bridge?

Regards back at you.

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

What? Donuts are fried? They have sugar? OMG! I may now be drummed out of the DAGFYS - Donuts Are Good For You Society which I formed unless I promptly renounce my affection for them. Ain't gonna happen.

Your Portuguese Bola de Berlim seems exquiitely delicious but I, too, would remove the custard since I'm not fond of fillings in my donuts other than a soupcon of jam.

Thank you for asking me to write this hub - I had a good time.

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Nellieanna - it's my pleasure to provide the romp and I'm happy to learn you may not have given up doughnuts entirely.

Eating those little powdered doughbnut holes will still qualify you for membership in my doughnut-lovers society. Membership fees are minimal.

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

TG - Thank you for the "brilliant" and "stunning" comments. They warm the cockles of moi heart.

Since you are unable to indulge, I will have an extra one which I will dedicate to you. True friendship, non?

TattoGuy 2 years ago

Cheers, yer friendship is outstanding ; )

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Thank you for the visit, Patty Inglish MS, and the kind comments.

Amazing, isn't it? how clever the earliest Americans were B.D.D. (Before Dunkin Donuts) to have fashioned their little fried cakes into the shapes of animals. Could we say they invented "animal crackers?"

Darlene Sabella 2 years ago from Hello, my name is Toast and Jam, I live in the forest with my dog named Sam ...

Bravo my new friend, when it comes to words we can find them even to write about a simple subject as a doughnut or a bed, history is history and working words is so much fun, words words and more words. Great hub and thanks for introducing yourself to me...I am delighted

Ivorwen 2 years ago from Hither and Yonder

Yummm! I love doughnuts. I always make little logs, rolled in sugar, because they cook up so well. After reading this, I might just have to make some to go with supper. Thanks for the menu idea... supper was looking rather boring.

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Hello, Darlene, I am delighted, too, to have met you. Thanks for the visit and the very kind words. Where would we be without them? Especially the "nice comment" kind.

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Yummy, yum, yum back at you, Ivorwen. Your homemade donut logs rolled in sugar are making me drool all over the keyboard. Let me know if you ever want to franchise them. Of course, I'd have to taste-test a few hundred first.

prettydarkhorse 2 years ago from US Level 4 Commenter

thank you for the history and I love doughnot, I rated this up, good research as well! Maita

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Maita - you are a sweetheart. Always visiting with the greatest comments and ratings.

I love doughnuts, too, but have to be careful not to get carried away. Eat too many and no one would be able to carry me away!

wordscribe41 2 years ago

We have the coolest doughnut shop here in Portland called Voodoo doughnuts. They sell hilarious ones with ludicrous names like: c^ck and balls, Old Dirty B**tard, etc. Trying not to cuss on your hub, but it's just sooooo Portland. Thanks for the great hub and the sweet tooth!

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Hi. Wordscribe. Your doughnut shop must be the maximum in cool. Now I HAVE to visit Portland - purely for research purposes, you know.

Thanks for the comment - coming from you, a true scribe of words - it is much appreciated.

wrenfrost56 2 years ago from U.K. Level 4 Commenter

Great hub as ever drbj, a lot of research went it to this and your hard work clearly shown here. Prehistoric doughnut fossils, amazing! I guess I should thank FD also for putting forward the challenge. :)

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Hi, wrenfrost, it wasn't easy personally taste-testing every single doughnut you saw in the first photo. Wait a minute. I lied. Some of them I had to taste-test twice! Really hard work.

Enjoyed writing and doing the research and enjoyed your visit and very kind comments. Thank you.

Nelle Hoxie 2 years ago

Every Sunday I indulge in TWO jelly doughnuts from Dunkin' Doughnuts. It is something I look forward to and no diet on the planet could ever convince me to give them up.

Love all the doughtnut facts, especially the one about JFK.

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Nelle - You are a woman of taste and distinction and I commend you for sticking to your guns. Oops - to your jelly doughnuts. Yep, Dunkin are the best. And if you only eat those two once a week you will remain your svelte self.

I, too, was fascinated by that bit of JFK memorabilia. Thank you for your visit and the kind words.

Austinstar 2 years ago from Texas Level 7 Commenter

Donuts have to be nature's perfect food! Garfield can have the pizza, I'll take donuts any day. I remember Shipley's donuts in Houston from when I was a little redheaded tyke. My mom used to take us there once a week. I had the hardest time picking out which donut to eat! Still do. So many donuts, so little time.

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Austinstar - you are my kind of woman.

I have the same problem today - selecting which donut to eat ... first!

Timothy Donnelly 2 years ago from Ontario, Canada Level 1 Commenter

Great work drbj, I found it interesting. BTW, Tim Hortons makes the best donuts in Canada! Try them if you get a chance! They're just a little small, in my opinion. I think I'll email this Hub-link to them, as I used to work as a Millwright commissioning their new automated and refrigerated distribution facility in Guelph, Ontario.

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Hi, Timothy. Great to meet you. Before writing this hub, I had no idea how many folks were so attached to doughnuts and seemed to have a favorite shop they visited as a youngster, or still do today.

Hope you still get a discount from Tim Hortons. Strangely enough, I think I heard that name before. Nope, it was Horton hears a Who. Different topic.

Thanks for the visit and the kind comment. Link away as much as you please.

Deborah Demander 2 years ago from First Wyoming, then THE WORLD Level 2 Commenter

Great hub. I choose to no longer hold myself guilty for my once a week doughnut habit.

Namaste.

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Namaste to you too, Deborah dear. Thank you for the visit and the kind comment.

I admire your will of iron - only one doughnut a week? I, too, am trying to hold my ingestion of doughnuts to just one - at a time!

James A Watkins 2 years ago from Michigan Level 7 Commenter

I had no idea there was so much to know about donuts! Thank you for the education. I do like a glazed now and again. :D

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Thank you, James, for the visit and the thanks. Entirely my pleasure. Everyone should read your hub on the Puritans - highly educational also.

The glazed are my fall-back choice, the twisted crullers my first. Together with the jelly donuts. And the maple covered. And the ...

TINA V 2 years ago

I like to eat doughnuts such as Krispy Kreme and Dunkin Donuts. But I never thought of finding out its history. Your article just gave me the information that I need to know. Great hub!

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Hi, Tina. Welcome to my world of doughnuts and zillions of other things. Thank you for the visit and the kind comment. Come back whenever.

katiem2 2 years ago from I'm outta here

We love doughnuts and I remember as a kid my Mom would make homemade donuts often. I was over joyed to see the nice collections of books you have on the subject. Now as the weather cools down we too can enjoy making doughnuts as a family. Thanks for the great history, it's fascinating and my daughters will be sure to love reading this when they get home today. They love reading about things and the what when where and how of it all. Peace :)

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Hi, katie, nice to see you here among the doughnuts. Delighted I could provide some interesting history about them and books for you and your lovely daughters.

If they are inquisitive about learning, then they are truly their mother's daughters. :)

Sweetsusieg 2 years ago from Michigan Level 4 Commenter

On my way to the car Hub, I spied the word doughnut, since my butt needs to be bigger I thought I would explore... It reminded me of my Grandpa, may I share a ditty he used to sing to me? *clears throat

"Went to Toledo and I walked around the block, stopped right in at the baker's shop. Picked up a donut fresh from the grease, handed the lady a 5 cent piece.... She looked at the nickel and she looked at me, said this nickels no good to me, theres a hole in the middle and it's all the way thru....Said I theres a hole in the donut too!"

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

You made my day, susie, with that delicious doughnut ditty you learned from Grandad. He must have been a connoisseur of the fried dough delicacy. But then, aren't we all? Delighted by your visit. Have a chocolate frosted one on me.

Lady Guinevere 2 years ago from West Virginia Level 5 Commenter

Lots of information about the doughnut. I loved the video about the Muppets!! Now I really want to go out and get a dozen or two of doughnuts and whup them down!!

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Hi, Lady G, whup one down for me, too. Either chocolate or maple-covered will do. Thanks for stopping by - it's nice to have you here. :)

Lady Guinevere 2 years ago from West Virginia Level 5 Commenter

Oh I got surprised last night when my hubby came home from work and he got me the chocolate glazed and the jelly filled doughnuts that Krispy Creame makes. I wupped one down and well was up- half the night with heartburn--but I just had to have one!

I also got a bucket of chocolate ice cream! I was in heaven while eating that--and funny--went to hell after the fact with the heartburn. LOL LOL LOL

As my father always put it--You play, You Pay and that I did.

drbj 2 years ago from south Florida Hub Author

Oh, poor Lady G, how sad to suffer. But how delightful to enjoy those doughnuts and ice cream - two of the basic food groups, you know.

Hubby is a sweetie. Tell him, next time, to get you some Prilosec at the drugstore, too. Take it an hour at least before the goodies and heartburn is just a bad memory. I have spoken. :)

Lady Guinevere 2 years ago from West Virginia Level 5 Commenter

I already take that but I didn't know he was bigning them home and it was already late. I got my just desserts! LOL LOL LOL

I can't eat past 6 at night or I get Acid Reflux and it was 9:30 pm.

GusTheRedneck 16 months ago from Texas Level 6 Commenter

Good Doctor bj - 15 months is too long without donuts!

Gus :-)))

drbj 16 months ago from south Florida Hub Author

Touche, Gus. 24 hours is way past my donut deadine! My slogan is: "Give me donuts . . . or give me donuts!" Thanks for finding your way here.

GusTheRedneck 16 months ago from Texas Level 6 Commenter

Good Doctor bj - I like your slogan. I am attempting to make some improvements in the way people can get some donuts in hand. Problem is that I eat all of the experiments.

Gus :-)))

drbj 16 months ago from south Florida Hub Author

I have been following your donut experiment hubs with gusto, Gus. Do you have any recipes in mind for the donut holes? Chocolate chip cookies and donuts, with or without holes, are two of my favorite basic food groups.

GusTheRedneck 16 months ago from Texas Level 6 Commenter

Hi Good Doctor bj - So far I have been filling those donut holes with things like blueberries, chcolate chips, and cream cheese fillings flavored variously.The first three things are pretty tasty and do a good job of filling the holes, but those "variously" things seem to fall right on through. With them, perhaps those microwaves act sorta like kryptonite. :)

Gus :-)))

J. Rocco 16 months ago

Wow, your article on the doughnut makes me want to eat a few right now. For years I have always received the bad jokes about cops and doughnuts. Like bad cop no doughnut. But I ignore the jokes and still enjoy a good doughnut sometimes. Great hub the pictures made me want one now.

rocky 15 months ago

Hey! cool hub! thanks for embedding my video!!! :D

drbj 11 months ago from south Florida Hub Author

Krptonite, Gus? Well, we know Superman would be a fan.

drbj 11 months ago from south Florida Hub Author

We have a lot in common, j. That photo at the beginning of the hub makes me want one, too. Or two, too.

drbj 11 months ago from south Florida Hub Author

Hey, rocky, the pleasure is all mine. :) BTW, we also have a lot in common. My hubby's name was Rocky.

Dolores Monet 6 months ago from East Coast, United States Level 6 Commenter

I had to read this when I saw the title. You are so right about donuts being the ultimate comfort food. I seem to crave donuts in times of duress, around funerals or the hospitalization of a loved one. It's sad that many small, local bakeries have closed down. That's where you could, and in some rare cases, still can find the best. Krispy Kremes give me a stomach ache.

dahoglund 3 months ago from Wisconsin Rapids Level 7 Commenter

I remeber growing up that my mother had what must have been a donut cutter in her collection of cookie cutters. It was a round cuttter with a small round cutter inside the circle. She might have made doughnuts when my siblings were young but she told me that the standing for long periods bothered her legs. With deep frying donuts it is necessary to stnd an tend them.

Interesting history.

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