a person · MEElizabeth Gregory
The one who was actually frying.
Hanson Gregory's mother, who by the Smithsonian's account made the deep-fried dough the ring story starts from.
The story Cited · wp-doughnut
She used her son's spice cargo — nutmeg, cinnamon, lemon rind — and put hazelnuts or walnuts in the centre, where the dough might not cook through, and called them doughnuts. That detail is the strongest reading of why a fried cake is named after a nut.
Today Cited · wp-doughnut
The son's version of the story travels; hers explains the word.
The particulars
| role | cook |
|---|---|
| state | ME |
| region | New England |
| confidence | high · updated 2026-09-16 |
Who it runs with
peopleHanson GregoryHer son, and the claim.and of this page it says: The other Gregory in the story.wordsOlykoekWhat she was frying a version of.wordsThe holeThe argument.
Where we got it
- Doughnut — Wikipedia · link
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.