A "donut" is a food on the Pick Your Plate diet linked through 'that word' below; but first I want to understand that word better. And I find you understand words better if you look at 'the words at their base' (then going on to look at the words at those words' bases, then the words at those words' bases, etc.-etc. ad infinitum)
The word “Donut” is built of Dough + |Nut (as the |Pastry was originally a Small |Lump of Batter, Fried in |Lard (either calling 'the lump itself' a nut, or with nuts originally cooked into the center---the |Hole added later ... see below)). A.k.a. Olycokes (from words meaning |Oil-|Cakes)
The 'generally accepted' (i.e. two-or-three separate sources using the same story) origin is when a Captain's mother would make 'dough-boys' for his crew; and he noticed that the middles were underdone, so he suggested just cutting the middles out before frying the doughnuts (unless you believe the story about the Captain punching a hole in the middle of an already cooked donut).
Though it could've (probably) been an ancient technique already at that time ... I mean, it's not like bakers 'didn't know' that the dough was sloppy in the middle!
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