Donuts

The modern word "donut" (as in "Dunkin Donuts") is a simplification of the more traditional "doughnut" (as in "Krispy Kreme Doughnuts"), which evolved from the archaic "dough knot." No one knows which baker originally twisted bread into a knot and fried it, but the legions of pastry thus spawned have sated many a weary constable.

Click on the donut to vote for it as your favorite toroidal baked good.

Donut Links

• Bust-A-Nut Donuts
• Joe's Donut Hole
• Donut of the Week
• House of Donuts

Donuts in olden days grew to fantastic proportions, as shown in these eighteenth century woodcuts. The mammoth donuts, which could reach six feet in diameter, were hunted nearly to extinction in the years following the Civil War.

Donut on a Pole

"Doughnuts will get you through times with no money better than money will get you through times with no doughnuts." - Poor Richard's Almanac, 1759

Donut Wheele

Read more donut "history" at the Nashville Doughnut Review.