Editing Doughnut (section)

===England and North America===
[[Dutch Americans|Dutch settlers]] brought ''olykoek'' ("oil(y) cake") to New York (or [[New Amsterdam]]) in the early 18th century. These doughnuts closely resembled later ones but did not yet have their current ring shape.<ref name="smiths" /><ref name="wise">{{cite web|title=Glazed America: Anthropologist Examines Doughnut as Symbol of Consumer Culture|url=http://newswise.com/articles/view/542787/|access-date=22 July 2008|website=www.newswise.com|publisher=Newswise}}</ref><ref>[https://www.thespruce.com/the-history-of-doughnuts-1328766 The History of Doughnuts], ''The Spruce''</ref>

A recipe for fried dough "nuts" was published, in 1750 England, under the title "How to make Hertfordshire Cakes, Nuts and Pincushions”, in ''The Country Housewife’s Family Companion by William Ellis.''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hertfordshire: home of the doughnut?|url=https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/about/blog/hertfordshire-home-doughnut|access-date=9 August 2021|website=St Albans Museums|date=20 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":6" />

A recipe labelled "dow nuts", again from [[Hertfordshire]], was found in a book of recipes and domestic tips written around 1800, by the wife of Baron [[Thomas Dimsdale]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/Mmmmdow-nuts-sweet-treat-traced-Hertford/story-22005999-detail/story.html |title=Mmmm...dow nuts! The sweet treat has been traced back to Hertford |work=[[Hertfordshire Mercury]] |date=24 October 2013 |access-date=7 October 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150423104043/http://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/Mmmmdow-nuts-sweet-treat-traced-Hertford/story-22005999-detail/story.html |archive-date=23 April 2015 }}</ref> the recipe being given to the dowager Baroness by an acquaintance who transcribed for her the cooking instructions for a "dow nut".<ref>{{cite book |title=The Donut: history, recipes, and lore from Boston to Berlin|author=Krondl, Michael|date=2014|publisher=Chicago Review Press |page=30 }}</ref>

The first cookbook using the near conventional "dough nuts" spelling was possibly the 1803 edition of "The Frugal Housewife: Or, Complete Woman Cook", which included dough nuts in an appendix of American recipes.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The frugal housewife : or, Complete woman cook; wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands is explained in upwards of five hundred approved receipts, in gravies, sauces, roasting, etc. ... also the making of English wines {{!}} MSU Libraries|url=https://d.lib.msu.edu/fa/32#page/218/mode/2up|access-date=22 September 2021|website=d.lib.msu.edu}}</ref>

One of the earliest mentions of "dough-nut" was in [[Washington Irving]]'s 1809 book ''A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty'':<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/doughnut-vs-donut_us_574ef9fbe4b02912b241574c|title=Doughnut Or Donut? The Great Spelling Debate Of Our Time|date=June 2, 2016|website=[[HuffPost]]|quote=The passage occurs in book 3, chapter 3 of Irving's satire.}}</ref>

{{blockquote|Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast of an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog’s fat, and called dough-nuts, or oly koeks: a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, excepting in genuine Dutch families.}}

The name ''oly koeks'' was almost certainly related to the ''[[Oliebol|oliekoek]]'': a Dutch delicacy of "sweetened cake fried in fat."<ref>See entries for ''[[oliebol]]'' and ''oliekoek'' in {{cite book   | author = Frederic Gomes Cassidy   |author2=Joan Houston Hall   | title = Dictionary of American Regional English: I-O   | publisher = Harvard UP   | year = 1985   | page = 874   | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=eEB0YFR2EowC&pg=PA874   | isbn = 978-0-674-20519-2}}</ref>