Here are just a few of the most interesting tidbits about doughnuts. Which one surprises you the most?
1. Doughnuts — loosely defined — are believed to have existed way back to prehistoric times, but doughnuts more or less as we know them today are said to have been brought to what would become Manhattan when it was still New Amsterdam. They were not terribly appealingly known as olykoeks — “oily cakes.”
2. Many accounts credit Elizabeth Gregory, the mother of a mid-19th-century New England ship captain, with creating the first doughnut with a hole in the middle — and for giving the doughnut its name. According to one account, Gregory put hazelnuts or walnuts in the center of deep-fried dough to fill in where the dough was unlikely to cook through. Another version claims Gregory’s son, the captain, created the hole by spiking a doughnut on the ship wheel when he needed both hands to steer during a storm.
3. Doughnuts hit the popularity big-time during WWI, when volunteers served them to United States soldiers while they were fighting on the front lines and then, subsequently, returned home with a taste for them.
4. A Russian immigrant named Adolph Levitt invented the first doughnut machine in 1920, using it to make the doughnuts at his bakery in New York City.
Did you know these four surprising facts about doughnuts? What are your favorite kind of doughnuts? Share your thoughts about this delicious dessert in the comment section below!
Article Source: Food Network
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