Donuts have been in America for many years, but have you ever wondered how they came here to America? Maybe you’ve wondered how they came to be the way they are today. Donuts were brought to America by Dutch immigrants, and they had a different recipe for this pastry. The normal ingredients included apples, prunes, and raisins, which were always put towards the middle. The dutch donut didn’t have a hole in it the middle, and this caused for the dough in the center of the donut to be raw. The donut also had a different shape. Unlike the current donut, which is normally circular, the old dutch donut was shaped like a diamond or twisted into different shapes. There are a few theories of how the donut got it’s hole, all three of them involving a boat's captain. The first of states that the captain ran into a storm out at sea while eating a donut. In response to this, he impaled his donut of one of the planks of the wheel so he could keep eating while keeping the boat upright. The second theory states that he just didn’t like the nuts in the middle. So he took them all out and told the boat’s cook to throw them out. The third theory states that he took the boat’s tin pepper box and put a hole in the …show more content…
The captain said he poked a hole in the middle using the tin pepper can. "Well, sir, they used to fry all right around the edges the captain said in his interview, ‘but when you had the edges done the insides was all raw dough. And the twisters used to sop up all the grease just where they bent, and they were tough on the digestion." He says he thought of solution by poking out tht ough that would’ve raw before it was cooked. “Well, sir, them doughnuts was the finest I ever tasted,” The captain said at the end of his interview. He said it wasn’t greasy, like how all the twisted donuts were, and it wasn’t raw. It was just