Where did doughnuts originate?

Answer 1

The doughnut is thousand of years old. Historians have found remains of a doughnut like food in Native American remains of villages. Doughnuts similar to what we have today were in the early colonies from the Dutch called "oily cakes." In 1847 a ship captains mother made deep fried cakes for her son to take with him on the ship. Captain Hanson Crockett is given credit for the invention of the doughnut hole. There are various stories about how this happened. In 1920 Adolph Levitt invented the first doughnut machine and in the 1934 World's Fair they were billed as the "food of the century."

Answer 2

(from www.wentz.net : History of the Donut ) : " The donut has existed sinced the begining of time . So long that archaeologists continue to unearth fossilized bits of what look like doughnuts in the middens of prehistoric Native American settlements. ... The doughnut , as we know and love , supposedly came to Manhattan ( then still New Amsterdam ) under the Dutch name of olykoeks -- "oily cakes". ... In early colonial times , US Dutch immigrants discovered fried cakes. So, as the story goes , a cow kicked a pot of boiling oil over onto some pastry mix , thus inventing the golden brown delight. Apparently, they didn't share this great discovery with their homeland and the fried cakes became a staple in the harsh conditions that existed in the colony. ... Around 1847, Elizibeth Gregory , a New England ship captain's mother , made a deep - fried dough that used her son's spice cargo of nutmeg , cinnamon, and lemon rind. She made the deep fried cakes for her son Hansen and his crew so they could store the pastry on long voyages ...and to ward off scurvy and colds. Mrs. Gregory put hazel nuts or walnuts in the center, where the dough might not cook through , and called them doughnuts . ...Hensen always took credit for the hole in the doughnut. Some doughnut historians think that Hensen was a bit of a cheapskate and was just trying to save on food costs. Others say 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 sensations onto one of the wooded spokes of the wheel. Yet another tale claims that he decided, after a visit from an angel, that the doughy center of the fried cakes had to go. ... Her son Henson presented "his" creation to the people who apparently sang and danced for days in praise of the best fried cake they had ever tasted. Is the doughnut heavenly food? 17th century America thought so, but unfortunately Hanson was eventually burnt at the stake for being a witch in the mid - 19th century. Today , the town of Clam Cove , Maine has a plaque in honor of Captain Hanson Gregory, the man who invented the hole in the doughnut. ... In the middle of World War I, millions of homesick "doughboys" were served up countless doughnuts by women volunteers, trying to give the soldiers a taste of home. ... The first doughnut machine was invented in 1920 , in New York City , by a man named Adolph Levitt, a refugee from czarist Russia. Levitt's doughnut machine was a huge hit , causing doughnuts to spread like wildfire. ... By 1934 , at the World's Fair in Chicago , doughnuts were billed as "the hit food of the Century of Progress". Seeing them made by machines "automatically" somehow made them seem all more futuristic. ... Doughnuts became beloved. Legend says that dunking donuts first became a trend when actress Mae Murray accidentally dropped a donut 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 Corbet how to "dunk". In 1937 a popular song proclaimed that you can live on coffee and doughnuts if "you're in love". ... During World War II, Red Cross women , known as "Doughnut Dollies" passed out hot doughnuts to the hard fighting soldiers. ... Today, in the United States alone , over 11 billion doughnuts are made every year. "
Hansen Gregory, an American, claimed to have invented the ring-shaped doughnut in 1847

Answer 3

well, the Dutch first created the doughnut but not sure where.

Answer 4

1847 The donut was invented.

Answer 5

the doughnut was invented in America