Donuts (donut or doughnuts) is a fried snack, made from a dough of flour, sugar, eggs and butter. The most common is the doughnut donut-shaped ring with a hole in the middle and round-shaped donut with sweet fillings, such as different types of jam, jelly, cream, and custard.
Completely different with Donuts bagel dough ingredients, ranging from, the technique of making to the way it serves, although both have almost the same shape.
The origin of the doughnuts are often a source of debate. One theory says the doughnut was brought to North America by immigrants from the Netherlands who also popularized the other desserts, such as pastries, pies-cream (cream pie) and fruit pies (cobbler).
Another story says the ring-shaped doughnut created Captain origin Denmark named Hanson Gregory. The captain frequently have to drive ships with both hands because ships frequently hit by storms. Fried pastries are eaten while driving rapid thrusting into the steering wheel of the ship, so that the cake be perforated. Happens to be the central part of the cake also often immature, so intentionally made the doughnut is pierced in the Middle so that the surface of the affected oil increased Donuts and donut quickly cooked.
