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The Military Origins of the Doughnut

The Military Origins of the Doughnut

  • For all the joy a doughnut brings, fried dough is something you make when you don't have anything better around.
  • Doughnuts' folksy cred may have reached its apex with the doughnut girls of World War One, Salvation Army volunteers who fried doughnuts for American troops.
  • Hundreds of thousands of them were handed out near the trenches, and posters and tributes to these women's devotion to bringing a taste of home to soldiers abound.
  • By the time the war ended, the doughnut became an ingrained symbol of home.
  • The modern doughnut is seen as a dessert, but earlier varieties were much more rustic.

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The History of Doughnuts

The History of Doughnuts

Though doughnuts have become ingrained in American cuisine, they were brought there by European settlers.

Doughnuts travelled to the US with Dutch settlers and became a much-loved national snack - despite their invention as a hunger-busting austerity food.

Fried dough is an old, old v...

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