Who invented the cinnamon donut

Gregory was dissatisfied with the greasiness of doughnuts twisted into various shapes and with the raw center of regular doughnuts.

Doughnut is the traditional spelling and still dominates even in the United States though donut is often used. At present, doughnut and the shortened form donut are both pervasive in American English. In four articles beginning October 9, two mention the donut spelling.

About Salvation Army volunteers went to France. Fast forward to today, and doughnuts have become a part of Americans' national identity. So are doughnuts actually American? These early doughnuts were simply balls of cake fried in pork fat until golden brown. Because the center of the cake did not cook as fast as the outside, the cakes were sometimes stuffed with fruit, nuts, or other fillings that did not require cooking.

As Dutch immigrants began to settle in the United States, they continued to make their olykoeks, where they were influenced by other cultures continued to morph into what we call doughnuts today.

The Dutch solution to the gooey, uncooked center of the doughnut was to stuff it with fillings that did not require cooking but Hansen Gregory, an American ship captain, had another solution. In Gregory punched a hole in the center of the dough ball before frying.

The hole increased the surface area, exposure to the hot oil, and therefore eliminated the uncooked center. However Gregory came up with putting a hole in the middle of his olykoek, he is the man credited with inventing the classic hole-in-the-middle shape. In , Russian-born immigrant Adolph Levitt created the first automated doughnut machine. But my friends and I, doughnut-deprived college students in a small North Carolina town, thought nothing of a mile journey to Charlotte at 1 A.

These days the redoubtable doughnut, made by Krispy Kreme and others, is riding high. Krispy Kreme stores, long best known in the South, are spreading North and West, and sales climbed 20 percent in Last February, the New Yorker described the Manhattan store as a "shrine" and once more detailed the doughnut-making process.

The new machines make dozen doughnuts an hour--more than ten times as many as the Ring King Jr. Dunkin' Donuts has stores in twice as many states as Krispy Kreme, and in 37 other countries, and sells nearly five times as many doughnuts worldwide. In the United States alone, about 10 billion doughnuts are made every year, a mere 1. Small wonder one sees reprints of Robert McCloskey's famous children's book Homer Price, in which a major figure is a doughnut-making machine that runs amok.

Doughnut consumption figures do not encourage nutritionists, who like to point out that the average doughnut can carry a calorie wallop, notable mainly for its sugar and fat. In fact, a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine bemoaned the unsaturated fat purveyed by the glazed doughnut. Famous chefs generally deplore the doughnut. But neither science nor culinary scorn nor outright scolding deters devotees, who variously describe Krispy Kreme's hot "original glazed" doughnut with terms like "angelic" or even "sugar-coated air.

David Shayt is one of the collections managers in charge of the Smithsonian's ongoing and never ending effort to acquire for the future significant artifacts from American technology and culture, so that the future will have a permanent record.

For him and his colleagues, the old Ring King Jr. Shayt is pleased that the Institution also has in storage four empty paper sacks each labeled with the proper ingredients for Krispy Kreme doughnuts. That stays locked up in a safe in Winston-Salem. David A. Follow him dataylor1.