We all know what a doughtnut looks like, right? It’s a baked item in the shape of a circle with a hole in the middle, wrong? Well, that’s the picture of one that’s popular with many around the world. But some doughnuts don’t have holes, others aren’t really circular, and still others look entirely different. A doughnut isn’t the same everywhere. It is, however, a food that has a fascinating history.
Many historians credit the invention of the modern doughnut to a sailor, a Dutchman named Hanson Gregory. His mother, Elizabeth, was known to make a good olykoek (oily cake). She made some forHistory-of-Doughnut him to take on one of his voyages, and she also sent along a recipe, so his cook could make some more. These cakes didn’t have holes in them, however.
One story says that the sea captain invented the donut by impaling one of the cakes on the ship’s steering wheel, to keep his hands free in a sudden storm, on June 22, 1847. The spoke drove a hole through the wheel, naturally. Gregory discovered that he liked the cake better with a hole in the middle and ordered his cook to make them that way for the rest of the voyage.
This is only one story, of course. Others have been put forward. It’s not always a given that one single incident signaled the beginning of something. The doughnut could have been ‘invented’ by many people in many different ways in different lands. The Hanson Gregory one is mentioned more than any other, so many historians go with that one as the most likely.
Many historians credit the invention of the modern doughnut to a sailor, a Dutchman named Hanson Gregory. His mother, Elizabeth, was known to make a good olykoek (oily cake). She made some forHistory-of-Doughnut him to take on one of his voyages, and she also sent along a recipe, so his cook could make some more. These cakes didn’t have holes in them, however.
One story says that the sea captain invented the donut by impaling one of the cakes on the ship’s steering wheel, to keep his hands free in a sudden storm, on June 22, 1847. The spoke drove a hole through the wheel, naturally. Gregory discovered that he liked the cake better with a hole in the middle and ordered his cook to make them that way for the rest of the voyage.
This is only one story, of course. Others have been put forward. It’s not always a given that one single incident signaled the beginning of something. The doughnut could have been ‘invented’ by many people in many different ways in different lands. The Hanson Gregory one is mentioned more than any other, so many historians go with that one as the most likely.
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