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Many times I wondered who would have thought of making a bread with a hole in the middle? It didn't seem very obvious to me, but it was a winning idea, because despite having "something missing" they are exquisite and it is perhaps this detail that makes them much richer. Well, it turns out that like many other creations, the donut was a fact of chance.

The story begins in the Netherlands, where some buns or buns named "Olykoek" were prepared, which means "oily bread" and it is that they were fried in lard to cook it, but it was rather round, even. The recipe was brought in the eighteenth century from the Nordic country to New Amsterdam by Dutch settlers, now Manhattan, in the United States.

The preparation was changing, since in the New World other types of spices and ingredients were used. It is known in particular about a woman, Elizabeth Gregory, who experimented with adding some elements such as lemon zest to the preparation, which enhanced the flavor and made the dessert longer lasting, but there was something that did not quite fit.

The story of the donuts

Elizabeth was the mother of Hanson Gregory, a sailor with a large crew who is said to have shared bread made by her mother.

Legend has it that one stormy day, while Hanson was trying to eat one of these oily breads and because she had nowhere to put it, she skewered it on one of the tillers and in this way the first donut was created.

However, this myth was discarded and in reality it is said that the way in which the donut was really created was when Hanson Gregory, around the 19th century, decided to remove the middle part that was always raw.

The bread continued to become popular, but it was not until the First World War that it found its true success, because trying to help the wounded in the confrontation, a group of women volunteers from The Salvation Army decided to give them donuts.

The fact was celebrated in the United States on June 7, 1938 with a Donut Day, which was later adopted internationally, leaving the first Friday of each June as the date.