National Doughnut Day celebrated on first Friday of June

National Donut day is celebrated on the first Friday in June. National Doughnut Day began in 1938 as a fund raiser for the Chicago Salvation. Their aim was to help the disadvantaged during the Great Depression. Salvation Army female volunteers known as “lassies” prepared thousands of fresh donuts to the homesick soldiers that served in France during World War I.

Donut Glossary from Around the World

• Italy = fritole
• Montenegro = ustipci
• Mexico = churrro
• Turkey = lokma
• France = beignet
• Germany = krapfen
• Hungary = langos
• India = balushai
• Netherlands = oliebollen

The original Salvation Army Doughnut was first served by Salvation Army in 1917. Frequently, the doughnuts were cooked in oil inside the metal helmet of an American soldier. Lt. Colonel Helen Purviance is considered the Salvation Army’s “first doughnut girl”.

While the day normally involves the celebration of doughnuts, because of the common misapprehension of being unhealthy, many celebrates as the National Doughnut and Bagel Day. This Year Dunkin Donuts and Krispy Kreme are taking part in the day by giving away a free donut to customers.

These are reported to have been an “instant hit”, and “soon many soldiers were visiting Salvation Army huts”. Margaret Sheldon wrote of one busy day “Today I made 22 pies, 300 doughnuts, and 700 cups of coffee.”

From Friday to Sunday: Grace offers an $18 sampler platter of three raised doughnuts.

• A plain doughnut glazed with fleur-de-lys salted caramel and served with Bourbon pecan ice cream
• A doughnut filled with pistachio cream and served with chocolate sorbet swirled with buttermilk ice cream
• A chocolate doughnut glazed with buttermilk and served with a mug of warm, spiced, rum-spiked milk to dip it into.

More then 10 billion donuts are made in the US every year. The biggest Donut was always made an American-style jelly donut weighing 1.7 tons, which was 16 feet in diameter and 16 inches high in the center. The hole in the Donut’s center emerged in the first half of the 19th Century. Adolph Levitt made-up the first donut machine in 1920.

Enjoy the National Doughnut Day greetings Cards