The Back StoryMore: Most food historians credit the Dutch as being the first to take sweet dough balls and fry them in pork fat. Known as "olykoeks," these fried treats arrived in America with the first pilgrims. How they gained their new name and shape is rife with speculation, with dozens of storytellers laying claim to the honor.
One thing is for certain, though – donuts (the newly named olykoeks) cooked far more evenly with holes in the middle of them, and the novelty of the curiously shaped pastry would soon propel the donut to a popularity deserving of myths and legends.
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