Teadough

Americans claim to have invented them, the Dutch disagree and have long claimed doughnuts as their own. It appear that both are mistaken, because the humble doughnut was actually invented by the British. Until now the earliest known doughnut recipe dated from 1847 when American Hanson Gregory claimed to have invented them aboard a lime-trading ship when he was only 16. The true origins of the doughnut appear to be from a recipe book by our ancestor Elizabeth Dimsdale dating back to 1803 with a recipe for ‘dow nuts’ created in the small British town of Hertford. Her ingredients included sugar, eggs, nutmeg, butter and yeast, which are made into a dough which is rolled out and cut into ‘nuts’. The nuts are then deep-fried, before being covered in sugar and left by the fire to rise. We have updated and transformed this wonderful recipe to create this delicious doughnut ingredient box. Just add butter, milk and an egg and you can bake delicious doughnuts at home inspired by the historical recipe. We hope you enjoy them as much as us, Arthur and Hannah Dimsdale