who is the very first donut company
Doughnuts are a British invention according to historians who have unearthed they were invented by the English upper classes. Until recently the earliest known doughnut recipe dated from 1847. American Hanson Gregory claimed to have invented them aboard a ship. Cookbook written in 1800 by English Baroness has a recipe for 'dow nuts'. It describes rolled dough cut into 'nuts' and deep fried in 'hogs-lard'.