A doughnut or donut is a fried dough confectionery popular in many countries as a sweet snack. It is made from ingredients like flour, sugar, butter, eggs, and milk. The most common shapes are rings, holes, and filled doughnuts. There are three stories about who invented doughnuts, one involving a sailor named Hanson Crockett Gregory who poked holes in doughnuts to free his hands on a ship's steering wheel. National Doughnut Day is celebrated in the US on the first Friday in June each year to honor Salvation Army volunteers who served doughnuts to soldiers in World War I.
2. What is a donut?
A doughnut or donut is a type of fried dough confectionery or
dessert food. The doughnut is popular in many countries and
prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade
or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised
specialty outlets.
4. Shapes
rings
Ring doughnuts are formed by joining the ends of a long, skinny piece of dough into a ring or
by using a doughnut cutter, which simultaneously cuts the outside and inside shape, leaving a
doughnut-shaped piece of dough and a doughnut hole from dough removed from the center.
holes
Doughnut holes are small, bite-sized doughnuts that were traditionally made from the dough
taken from the center of ring doughnuts.
filled
The filled doughnut is a flattened sphere injected with fruit preserves, cream, custard, or other
sweet fillings, and often dipped into powdered sugar or topped off with frosting. Common
varieties include the Boston cream, coconut, key lime, and jelly.
5. other shapes
Others include the fritter and the Dutchie, which are usually glazed. These have been available on
Tim Hortons' doughnut menu since the chain's inception in 1964, and a 1991 Toronto Star report
found out that these two were the chain's most popular type of fried dough in Canada
6. History
There are three stories about who invented doughnuts.
+ In 1847, Elizabeth Gregory was known for making a very fine olykoek with a hint of
nutmeg and a filling of hazelnuts or walnuts. Her son, Hanson Crockett Gregory was a
16 year-old sailor who invented the doughnut hole.
*
as a spoke on the steering wheel to keep his hands free. The spoke drove a hole
through the raw center of the doughnut. Captain Gregory liked the doughnuts better
that way, and the doughnut hole was born. He didn't like nuts, so he poked them out
and ordered the ship's cook to remove the centers from doughnuts.
* According to anthropologist Paul R. Mullins, the first cookbook mentioning
doughnuts was an 1803 English volume which included doughnuts in an appendix of
American recipes. By the mid-
doughnut, and was viewed as a thoroughly American food.
8. National
Doughnut Day
National Doughnut Day, also known as National Donut Day, celebrated in
the United States of America, is on the first Friday of June each year,
succeeding the Doughnut Day event created by The Salvation Army in 1938
to honor those of their members who served doughnuts to soldiers
during World War I. About 250 Salvation Army volunteers went to France.
Because of the difficulties of providing freshly baked goods from huts
established in abandoned buildings near to the front lines, the two
Salvation Army volunteers came up with the idea of providing doughnuts