"Topped with a maple glaze or rolled in sugar, the appeal of fresh doughnuts is difficult to resist. Whatever your preference -- the fluffy yeast style or the denser cake variety -- great old-fashioned doughnut-shop confections are fun and easy to make at home. Simple, Irresistible It's no accident that these sublime rings of deep-fried dough resemble halos: Doughnuts are heaven on earth, and they have quite an illustrious history. First, Dutch immigrants rolled fried bread dough in sugar to create olykoeks ("oily cakes"), the poor man's patisserie. In 1847, Elizabeth Gregory, of Rockport, ME, sent her son Hanson off to sea with a batch of special cakes -- "dough-nuts," she called them. Legend has it that to free his hands while on a voyage, Hanson impaled the snack on a spoke of the ship's wheel, and the doughnut hole was born. During the First World War, Salvation Army women fried up thousands of doughnuts to boost the morale of American troops, thus nicknamed "doughboys," and doughnuts -- an eminently affordable, utterly irresistible luxury -- have been lifting spirits ever since." MSN TodaySo run out and get ya a donut today and celebrate. And if ya live near a Krispy Kreme, you get a free one today!!
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