golden harvest farms apple cider doughnuts

The Fair advertised doughnuts as “the food hit of the Century Of Progress” and they became an instant hit across the country. The automated donut-making process was featured at the 1934 World’s Fair in Chicago. Levitt is the inventor of the first automated doughnut machine. Adolph Levitt, a Russian immigrant who, in the early 1920s, founded the Doughnut Corporation of America. And, yes, in its democratic ethos, its optimism, and its assorted origins, it does seem rather quintessentially American.”įast forward to Mr. “It is true that the humble doughnut does have a convoluted past that involves Dutch immigrants, Russian exiles, French bakers, Irving Berlin, Clark Gable and a certain number of Native Americans. Smithsonian Magazine said it best in an article from 1998 when asked to weigh in on the history and origin of the doughnut… Then there are the Dutch and their method for olykoeks. The French have always had it seems, a puffy fried pastry, most notably the Beignet. The British recipe for ‘dow nuts’ dates to an early written account from 1800, but surely they were being made, but perhaps not written earlier than this.

Whoever says that if something tastes good it’s bad for you hasn’t tried one of these.

In this post, I will use doughnut and donut interchangeably.

Donut is an Americanized, shortened version of doughnut that isn’t incorrect, but it is much less common. It is more common in the United States and vastly more common internationally. Well, except for the apple cider perhaps.īefore I dive in, I know somebody will inevitably ask me, ‘is is donut or doughnut?‘ Doughnut is the original, generally preferred spelling of the word. In fact, I would place a money wager on each of you having exactly what is required to cook up these autumnal bites of YUM in your pantries at this exact minute. Harvest festivals in the New England states means fresh apple cider doughnuts.Īn old fashioned apple cider donut recipe does not involve fancy donut pans or wild ingredients. Where there are sunny orchards of ripe apples, there is apple cider, and where there is cider, there are harvest festivities of some kind or another. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Golden harvest farms apple cider doughnuts