Fried dough has been made all around the world for . Dutch settlers who brought apple and cream pies, cookies and cobbler to the New World also doughnuts. Their doughnuts were called olykoeks, or oily cakes – sweet dough balls in pork fat. Early doughnuts were often filled with apples, prunes or raisins. The name “doughnut” may to the nuts put in the middle of the dough ball to an uncooked center or possibly to “dough knots” – another shape for the olykoeks. Today, the “doughnut” and “donut” are used