YAY — It’s National Donut Day!

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n called, “oily cakes.”When the first donuts were made they were solid globs of dough fried in the smoldering lard, but it soon became apparent that there was one problem; the centers didn’t fry, so they stayed doughy and sailors ate around them and threw the centers out.It was Captain Gregory who was described as “bold, brave and bright” who came up with the idea of punching a hole in the center of the doughy blobs which created what we have long called the doughnut. He did so by taking off the lid from a water-tight tin can that was used to store pepper in the ship’s galley. He used the lid to cut out the center of the ‘oily cakes.’ Viola — Holey cakes!Texas author, Pat Miller, first heard of the culinary innovator while on a boat tour of the Boston Harbor. She went onto chronicle his adventurous life in her 2016' children’s book, “The Hole Story of the Doughnut.” (Harper Collins publishers)U.S. consumers eat more than 10 billion donuts per year and 96% of Americans say they like them… Well, duh. Who doesn’t like donuts?!Sailors of old used to call the

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donuts “sinkers.” Hanson’s mom introduced the innovation to landlubbers, selling them at a friend’s general store in their native mid-coast Maine. Hanson got recognition in his golden years and he proclaimed, “they were the first holes ever seen by mortal eyes!”Boston area entrepreneur William Rosenberg opened the first “Dunkin Donuts” in 1950' in Quincy —which he later learned was less than a mile, as the crow flies, from the sailors’ cemetery where Captain Gregory has been at rest since 1921.’ Coincidence?Donuts were extremely popular in WWI when the Salvation Army handed them out with coffee to the soldiers and they soon started calling the girls who handed them out, “Donut Dollies.”I hope you enjoyed reading about how donuts came to be and now go out and buy a dozen for yourself and hopefully to feed your family. And don’t forget to send out a silent salute to young Captain Gregory for his wonderful invention.RIP — Captain Hanson Gregory and thank you for this delicious invention!Thank you for reading and thoughtful writing everyone.</article></body>

Celebrated on the first Friday in June, as the donut turns 175 years old on June 22nd.

Yes, in case you didn’t know…

Dough that was deep-fried in cauldrons of lard had been served to sailors on the seas for centuries. Dutch cooks made a notable version called “oily cakes.” Per the Fox News app.

“On June 22nd in 1847, a 15 year old galley boy, Hanson Gregory (1832–1921) thought of an innovative solution to a problem plaguing the hungry crew of the sailing ship ‘Ivanhoe.’ Dough that was deep-fried in cauldrons of lard had been served to sailors on the seas for centuries. Dutch cooks made the 1st notable version called, “oily cakes.”

When the first donuts were made they were solid globs of dough fried in the smoldering lard, but it soon became apparent that there was one problem; the centers didn’t fry, so they stayed doughy and sailors ate around them and threw the centers out.

It was Captain Gregory who was described as “bold, brave and bright” who came up with the idea of punching a hole in the center of the doughy blobs which created what we have long called the doughnut. He did so by taking off the lid from a water-tight tin can that was used to store pepper in the ship’s galley. He used the lid to cut out the center of the ‘oily cakes.’ Viola — Holey cakes!

Texas author, Pat Miller, first heard of the culinary innovator while on a boat tour of the Boston Harbor. She went onto chronicle his adventurous life in her 2016' children’s book, “The Hole Story of the Doughnut.” (Harper Collins publishers)

U.S. consumers eat more than 10 billion donuts per year and 96% of Americans say they like them… Well, duh. Who doesn’t like donuts?!

Sailors of old used to call the donuts “sinkers.” Hanson’s mom introduced the innovation to landlubbers, selling them at a friend’s general store in their native mid-coast Maine. Hanson got recognition in his golden years and he proclaimed, “they were the first holes ever seen by mortal eyes!”

Boston area entrepreneur William Rosenberg opened the first “Dunkin Donuts” in 1950' in Quincy —which he later learned was less than a mile, as the crow flies, from the sailors’ cemetery where Captain Gregory has been at rest since 1921.’ Coincidence?

Donuts were extremely popular in WWI when the Salvation Army handed them out with coffee to the soldiers and they soon started calling the girls who handed them out, “Donut Dollies.”

I hope you enjoyed reading about how donuts came to be and now go out and buy a dozen for yourself and hopefully to feed your family. And don’t forget to send out a silent salute to young Captain Gregory for his wonderful invention.

RIP — Captain Hanson Gregory and thank you for this delicious invention!

Thank you for reading and thoughtful writing everyone.