Who invented donuts?

Answer 1

This story is, well, to be kind, implausible. Think about a cake impaled on a ship's wheel in a storm. Wikipedia has a better description of the origins of 'the doughnut.'

A Dutchman named Hanson Gregory. His mother, Elizabeth, was known to make a good olykoek, or "oily cake." She made some for 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.
No one knows really who made it but it would be in some food books

Answer 2

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Doughnuts have a disputed history.

One theory suggests that doughnuts were introduced into North America by Dutch settlers.

Hansen Gregory, an American, claimed to have invented the ring-shaped doughnut in 1847 aboard a lime-trading ship when he was only sixteen years old.

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.

Answer 3

Doughnuts have a disputed history. One theory suggests that doughnuts were introduced into North America by Dutch settlers.

Hansen Gregory, an American, claimed to have invented the ring-shaped doughnut in 1847 aboard a lime-trading ship when he was only sixteen years old.

The first cookbook mentioning doughnuts was an 1803 English volume which included doughnuts in an appendix of American recipes.

Answer 4

This story is, well, to be kind, implausible. Think about a cake impaled on a ship's wheel in a storm. Wikipedia has a better description of the origins of 'the doughnut.'

A Dutchman named Hanson Gregory. His mother, Elizabeth, was known to make a good olykoek, or "oily cake." She made some for 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.

Read more: www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/.../doughnut_history.htm

Answer 5

My grandfather did: Peter Perrino. He invented it as a teen when he was working in his father's bakery, the Star Bakery, in Winooski, Vermont. He sold the recipe during the Great Depression for $100. So family legend has it.

Answer 6

Wikipedia has the subject covered very well. If anyone wants the real answer, that's where they should be looking, not here.

Answer 7

The inventor of doughnuts was an American man named Hanson Gregory.