Doughnuts began in which era, who invented it?

Doughnut, originally called "fried hinoki" this traditional breakfast snack, according to legend there is a story.

"History of Song" records: the Southern Song Emperor Shaoxing eleven years, Qin Hui a group of traitors to the "trumped-up" charges killed Yue Fei father and son. Southern Song soldiers and civilians were filled with righteous indignation. At that time in Lin'an, near the Windstorm Pavilion, there are two selling breakfast food vendors, each grabbed the dough, respectively, rolled and pinched the shape of Qin Hui and Wang's two people, twisted together into the frying pan, and called "deep-fried hinoki". At that time, the people who bought and ate breakfast shouted: "Eat fried hinoki! The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.

In order to vent their anger, so people scrambled to follow suit. From then on, all over the cooked food stalls appeared on the doughnut this food. To this day, some places, there are still the doughnut called "fried hinoki".

Hubei's fried doughnut has two gangs, namely divided into the House gang and Huangpi gang, the House gang used to "single" operation, Huangpi gang is used to "double" operation, both have their own strengths. In a dietary technology show, the House gang masters with five kilograms of flour, fried doughnuts hundred, one not much, half a root not less, yellow color, loose bubbles crispy fragrance, root and root of the crisp and tough can be erected, the length of the uniform thickness, won the doughnut champion.