The French had many potatos they decided to give them to the U.S. They made a statue out of the potatos. There was a person eating a donut who walking by. A potato fell onto the donut and the person ate the donut. That is how the potato donut was born. Soon after, they said the potato statue was a health hazard so they took it down. No one spoke of the potato statue ever again.
They started put potatoes in donuts after a mistake granny Hannibal made when she was trying to grind a foot to put in her dough. She was drunk and reached into her potato barrel instead of her foot barrel, honest mistake really. But the children of the village really loved it so it became tradition. Next year she did add the foot but they didnt know that
McCall's used to do a magazine like Better Homes and Gardens. This was a collection of all the recipes featured in their magazine. My mom and grandma each had this collection. There was a reason I didn't let my mom teach me to cook!!! I remember looking through this and laughing at some of the odd combinations.
Those bananas really did look gnarly. They started putting potatoes in doughnuts to retaliate against what would in the future be called the keto diet.
I remember that recipe box ! My Mom had it lol tfs the blast from the past. Using mashed potatoes in breads and donuts makes them not only delicious, but moist. I make potato bread and its so delicious, especially toasted. I love olives, hate raisins. Yes, the 70s ( I was a teen then) were a strange time for everything. tfs 🎃🍃🍂🍁🌞🌵🍁🍂🍃🎃🍃🍂🍁🌞🌵🍁🍂🍃🎃🍃🍂🍁🌞🌵🍁🍂🍃🎃🍃🍂🍁🌞🌵🍁🍂🍃
That set of recipes were part of a type of subscription, if my memory serves me right. It was a monthly subscription from McCall’s, which was a woman’s magazine, for a set of recipe cards. When subscribed for a year, I think the recipe box was “free” or was a “gift” for subscribing. The magazine used to have little cards in the middle of the magazine to send your information, via regular mail prepaid postage, to the magazine to subscribe to the recipe card club and you were usually locked in for a year or more. They also would send promotions through the mail trying to get subscriptions and they’d send a set of cards to entice you. I just recently threw a set of those cards away.
I have this exact box. As my mom had in 70s, yes, she cooked from these and wrote on cards if good and the date! I rem6so many of those cards you held up, its scary. I'm a 267 baby and lived to tell about it!! Lol!!!!!
I say that about mushrooms and seafood because mushrooms look like weird fungusy toadstools and seafood looks like weird crusty sea spiders with sweet FA to even eat on them. God put them all the way under the sea so nobody would ever find the weird creepy ugly things.
this was a blast from the past! These are recipes I grew up with. My grandmother used to take frozen mixed veggies (lima beans, green beans, corn, carrot squares and potato squares), put a layer on a saucer, and cover it with lemon jello. This made an individual serving, and she called it the 'salad course'. It was pretty gross. But I grew up with a LOT of jello in various forms.
I have that. I also have a 1952 Betty Crocker cookbook and a 1950 Better Homes & Garden cookbook because that's what my mom had, so what I grew up with
The reason they’re potato donuts are actually at the famous thanksgiving trifle episode of friends. An Italian immigrant woman was making a brioche bread and the recipe got stuck to her grandmothers recipe for gnocchi. Then confused the baking with cannoli and fried it. That’s the original story!
Im so glad to find your channel cause i have found you in Man About Cake and i was sad that it was finished then i heard of this and now i get to watch you again :)
Love watching you! Always entertaining...even if I don't make the recipes. Lol. I'm a retired cake decorator and I learned so much from watching your old channel. I continue watching because you always make me laugh!
The origin of potato donut was on a small farm in Peru. The Peruvian farmers had a surplus of potatoes and a shortage of flour so they used potato flour in the donuts. The recipe made its way up the Pacific coast changing as it went until it reached the United States where mashed potatoes were a staple. And that is the story of the potato donut.
OMG! Funniest episode ever!! From JJR calling olives "the devil" to the noises Brandon made with eyes on the donuts, I've never laughed so hard. 🤣😂 Keep it up! Loved it! ❤🧡🖤
My hubby has an apron with “cake or death”... we both love that comedian! When JJR said he didn’t like olives my husband overheard and came over to watch the episode. He saw the shirt and said he liked JJR! 😂 I made a subscriber out of him! Yay!!!
Sooo... potatoe donuts are the only way to catch a leprechaun. People happen to like them too though, so now you can’t tell who is a leprechaun and who isn’t.
Oh Josh, please do another cake from the box! I HAVE this box but the Australian version with Woman's Weekly! I sometimes decorate my house with the pictures when I'm having a retro styled party :)
I hate to tell you this guy's, but the Potato Famine happened when potato blight hit the potato crops in Ireland causing them to rot in the ground. Thousands if not millions of people starved to death. Likely potato donuts came out of the Great Depression in the US when potatoes were frequently all people had to eat.
Omg I have this box. It’s avocado green and I’ve saved it for years. I’m going to have to cook things out of it. I do bake the almond puff from here regularly. 😊
4:30 you did the right thing by not peeling them. Peeling potatoes before you boil them allows them to absorb too much water. It's ok if you're just using them for mashed potatoes but not where you need the water content to be lower for recipes such as gnocchi or your donut recipe 😊👍
Oooo SpudNuts! Loved these as a child but haven t had since then. As for the way cakes and things were decorated, many of these from the 50's, 60's and 70's were done by "home cooks" not professionals. Unfortunately a lot of your cakes would look similar if made by the average person, that's why we need talented people like you.
Eeeeewwwwwweeeeeeeeeee! Silly JJR THE 70'S WERE BAD FOR EVERYONE😲😭😓! Donuts look yummy and so funny 🤣. Love it and can not wait to see zombie Halloween episode.
The Amish make potato donuts and they are great. They also put them in their whole wheat bread too. If is frugal and keeps the baked goods moist longer.
My in-laws come straight from the bowels of hell. I provide a large portion of the dishes when the family has any kind of get together. I’m ordering that recipe box, I’m serving those bananas for sure. Thanks for the lead!
I recently discovered your other channel and followed you here. Your videos are awesome!! they are "bite-size" and just perfect for binge-watching. Since you are doing such unique recipes, I'd love it if you could tackle something Paleo-inspired. Thanks
My mother had a box (which I now have) with recipes in it too. But her's came in a metal box. (BTW, my granddaughter helped me find it yesterday. Going to search through it to see what I find!)
My mom and I had a box of recipes like that! Used to get them mailed to you like every month. There is a place in Ohio called Spudnuts. They make their donuts with potato flour. OMG they are so light and delicious. Not like the regular ones that you eat one and you regret it, ahaha. They didn't want to waste leftovers, so with a flour shortage, they had to add some tators, ahaha. OMG I'm laughing so hard you guys are cracking me up!
Ms. Ermintrude (yes that's her real name, thank you very much!) was about to make a batch of doughnuts for the diner, and dangit all, she ran out of flour, because Mayleen used the last of it in the breakfast biscuits! So, what was Ms. Ermintrude to do? She realized that there were a couple boiled potatoes, extras from the mashed potatoes made earlier, and she got to thinking, "Hm, maybe I can use these boiled spuds to make up for the lack of flour!" One innovative idea later, and boom! Potato doughnuts were born! They were a huge hit at Ms. Ermintrude's Diner. Her kids took the recipe, renamed the diner eventually after she passed (RIP Ms. Ermintrude) and thus the potato doughnut became A Thing! The end.
They use potatoes because the other ingredients were actually from some aliens who promised to come back with the right stuff. However, it took them a few years so we had to find a replacement for the delicious food. Potatoes work with everything, why not doughnuts? Lol
You always make me laugh so much! I love the donuts, don't know about the bananas though... My daughters insist we make them! Lots of love, Elen from Greece!!!
I think those bananas are PERFECT for Halloween... maybe a themed party where everyone has to bring a really gross dish and then you put them in a circle and play spin the bottle but where the bottle lands is the food you have to eat.. revolting food edition... sounds scary to me lol
The French had many potatos they decided to give them to the U.S. They made a statue out of the potatos. There was a person eating a donut who walking by. A potato fell onto the donut and the person ate the donut. That is how the potato donut was born. Soon after, they said the potato statue was a health hazard so they took it down. No one spoke of the potato statue ever again.
Yeah that statue that was a gift from Santa that year that 95% of American kids were nice
They started put potatoes in donuts after a mistake granny Hannibal made when she was trying to grind a foot to put in her dough. She was drunk and reached into her potato barrel instead of her foot barrel, honest mistake really. But the children of the village really loved it so it became tradition. Next year she did add the foot but they didnt know that
Brandon: “it tastes like bad breath”
Lmao I love them so much 😂💗
McCall's used to do a magazine like Better Homes and Gardens. This was a collection of all the recipes featured in their magazine. My mom and grandma each had this collection. There was a reason I didn't let my mom teach me to cook!!! I remember looking through this and laughing at some of the odd combinations.
Those bananas really did look gnarly. They started putting potatoes in doughnuts to retaliate against what would in the future be called the keto diet.
Ha Ha!!
Hey keto cured my fatty liver and pre diabetes thanks to my hepatologist advice so don’t knock it. 🙂
I remember that recipe box ! My Mom had it lol tfs the blast from the past. Using mashed potatoes in breads and donuts makes them not only delicious, but moist. I make potato bread and its so delicious, especially toasted. I love olives, hate raisins. Yes, the 70s ( I was a teen then) were a strange time for everything. tfs 🎃🍃🍂🍁🌞🌵🍁🍂🍃🎃🍃🍂🍁🌞🌵🍁🍂🍃🎃🍃🍂🍁🌞🌵🍁🍂🍃🎃🍃🍂🍁🌞🌵🍁🍂🍃
I'm loving this new channel. I like the Halloween opening with all the costumes. AWESOME (700 exclamation points)
Thank you !!!
"mom I want donuts for dinner!"
*adds potatoes*
That set of recipes were part of a type of subscription, if my memory serves me right. It was a monthly subscription from McCall’s, which was a woman’s magazine, for a set of recipe cards. When subscribed for a year, I think the recipe box was “free” or was a “gift” for subscribing. The magazine used to have little cards in the middle of the magazine to send your information, via regular mail prepaid postage, to the magazine to subscribe to the recipe card club and you were usually locked in for a year or more. They also would send promotions through the mail trying to get subscriptions and they’d send a set of cards to entice you. I just recently threw a set of those cards away.
It’s so awesome to see JJR bake stuff other than cakes, keep it up!
Thank you!! Some people do not like it but I wanna show other things. Thanks for the feedback!
JJR and crew, you make me so happy!
The creepy sad music during the ham banana bit was awesome
"I'm going to use the tools God gave me... 1.... 2..." and then immediately we see the potato smasher XD
Lol. guilty!
I have this exact box. As my mom had in 70s, yes, she cooked from these and wrote on cards if good and the date! I rem6so many of those cards you held up, its scary. I'm a 267 baby and lived to tell about it!! Lol!!!!!
oh oh nice retro recipes are SO COOL!
I never imagined that there will be a reason to not like JRR but olives *dramatic gasp* I LOVE OLIVES
I'm allergic....well....that's what I tell people! LOL
Allergic -that's what I tell people about white chocolate, really I just hate it
I say that about mushrooms and seafood because mushrooms look like weird fungusy toadstools and seafood looks like weird crusty sea spiders with sweet FA to even eat on them.
God put them all the way under the sea so nobody would ever find the weird creepy ugly things.
this was a blast from the past! These are recipes I grew up with. My grandmother used to take frozen mixed veggies (lima beans, green beans, corn, carrot squares and potato squares), put a layer on a saucer, and cover it with lemon jello. This made an individual serving, and she called it the 'salad course'. It was pretty gross. But I grew up with a LOT of jello in various forms.
Yikes!!! But I kind of want to taste it!
I have that. I also have a 1952 Betty Crocker cookbook and a 1950 Better Homes & Garden cookbook because that's what my mom had, so what I grew up with
The reason they’re potato donuts are actually at the famous thanksgiving trifle episode of friends. An Italian immigrant woman was making a brioche bread and the recipe got stuck to her grandmothers recipe for gnocchi. Then confused the baking with cannoli and fried it. That’s the original story!
Im so glad to find your channel cause i have found you in Man About Cake and i was sad that it was finished then i heard of this and now i get to watch you again :)
Thanks for coming over!!!
You should keep that “game” for future episodes! So funny and interesting to see the weird things people used to eat!
Maybe the bananas were supposed to be plantains. And someone just messed that up when writing the recipe. I love old cookbooks!
Glad to see you back in your signature T-Shirt!! Yeah!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾❤️❤️❤️❤️
So much fun!!!!!!
Omg, the head chef at my school just made these, and they are SOOOO goooooddd
OH MY GOSH!! I used to have one of those in the late 70s!!! I gave it away in the 90s!
My grandma still makes prune whip and it’s one of my dads favs! She also used to add bananas to coleslaw!
No!!!!!
My mom still makes "coleslaw gelatin aspic salad " with olives!
I literally choked on my hot tea while watching this! You guys are amazinggggg! 😂
Sorry you choked, but glad we made you laugh!!
Love watching you! Always entertaining...even if I don't make the recipes. Lol. I'm a retired cake decorator and I learned so much from watching your old channel. I continue watching because you always make me laugh!
I was laughing so hard when you started to eat that ham-banana concoction!! Hilarious! 😆
The ham banana hollandaise is the scariest thing i've seen this Halloween lol
The origin of potato donut was on a small farm in Peru. The Peruvian farmers had a surplus of potatoes and a shortage of flour so they used potato flour in the donuts. The recipe made its way up the Pacific coast changing as it went until it reached the United States where mashed potatoes were a staple. And that is the story of the potato donut.
OMG! Funniest episode ever!! From JJR calling olives "the devil" to the noises Brandon made with eyes on the donuts, I've never laughed so hard. 🤣😂 Keep it up! Loved it! ❤🧡🖤
I used to eat those all the time in Bali
My hubby has an apron with “cake or death”... we both love that comedian! When JJR said he didn’t like olives my husband overheard and came over to watch the episode. He saw the shirt and said he liked JJR! 😂 I made a subscriber out of him! Yay!!!
Yay! Tell him thank you!!
My mum had a betty crocker book that had a recipe for croissants that required potatoes. I tried it and they came out good each time.
Sooo... potatoe donuts are the only way to catch a leprechaun. People happen to like them too though, so now you can’t tell who is a leprechaun and who isn’t.
Yep, my grandmas had those recipe boxes or something very similar.
LOL. My Mom had that same recipe box!!! I grew up in the 70s and 80s!
"No way!!!.....Okay, I'll do it". LOL. Boys.
Oh Josh, please do another cake from the box! I HAVE this box but the Australian version with Woman's Weekly! I sometimes decorate my house with the pictures when I'm having a retro styled party :)
We have a video coming soon!!!
I hate to tell you this guy's, but the Potato Famine happened when potato blight hit the potato crops in Ireland causing them to rot in the ground. Thousands if not millions of people starved to death. Likely potato donuts came out of the Great Depression in the US when potatoes were frequently all people had to eat.
Also where potato candy came from
Yeah and colonizer England caused it on purpose.
True fact.
Wrong answers only tho 🙃
My mum has that and now it sits proudly in my kitchen. Xx
Loving the Eddie izzard cake or death tee. Love that comedy routine so much "cake please!"
I’m going to follow this recipe to the tea (adds two ingredients 😂)
Sorry. I can’t help myself!!
I have those! They were a category a month for small $$. Crazy recipes in that.
First time watching. Loved it and i will continue watching
Thanks for watching!!
Omg I have this box. It’s avocado green and I’ve saved it for years. I’m going to have to cook things out of it. I do bake the almond puff from here regularly. 😊
Thank you-
You made me hungry
OMJ!!! Cake or Death? Eddie Izzard. Thank you, JJR!
I feel like the music in this episode was especially on point, awesome one all around!
Hey Girl!!! We Miss You!!!
You've Been Desserted I miss you guys too, you’re totally killing it! 🤩
That has got to be the most efficient way of peeling bananas I've ever seen.
Lol. People keep commenting about this. I have always twisted bananas to open them. Not sure why, but it works really well!!!
@@YouveBeenDesserted I think I tried that and then my banana broke 😂
Fresh snip JJR! Hair looking on point. Also the donuts... 👌🏼
Thank you! My barber will love that!!
Love it! So funny!
4:30 you did the right thing by not peeling them. Peeling potatoes before you boil them allows them to absorb too much water. It's ok if you're just using them for mashed potatoes but not where you need the water content to be lower for recipes such as gnocchi or your donut recipe 😊👍
My mom used to save the water from peeled, boiled potatoes to make bread the next day. It was so light and had the finest moistest crumb! Yeow! 😻
those donuts were super cute!!
Haha I actually had that! Every month you would get a new pack of recipes.
Oh wow! I had no idea they had this in America too! My mum has this and ive made so many recipes from it. We are in Australia.
Oooo SpudNuts! Loved these as a child but haven t had since then. As for the way cakes and things were decorated, many of these from the 50's, 60's and 70's were done by "home cooks" not professionals. Unfortunately a lot of your cakes would look similar if made by the average person, that's why we need talented people like you.
I miss that set of recipe cards so much! Actually tearing up from nostalgia (and a little bit from the mockery).
Eeeeewwwwwweeeeeeeeeee! Silly JJR THE 70'S WERE BAD FOR EVERYONE😲😭😓! Donuts look yummy and so funny 🤣. Love it and can not wait to see zombie Halloween episode.
I grew up in a small town too, ours was called The Spudnut Shop! My most favorite donuts in the world!
Super fun video...Mom used potatoes in dessert recipes as a filler and to make things more dense..Thx for the fun video🤓
My grandmother use to make potato candy.
The Amish make potato donuts and they are great. They also put them in their whole wheat bread too. If is frugal and keeps the baked goods moist longer.
I am so here for JJR's sarcasm in this episode!
My in-laws come straight from the bowels of hell. I provide a large portion of the dishes when the family has any kind of get together. I’m ordering that recipe box, I’m serving those bananas for sure. Thanks for the lead!
Dude, I swear my mom had that recipe card holder! I think it was a subscription service!
I laughed so hard I cried lol you boys are so funny!
I had one of those recipe boxes! You got a certain amount of recipes a month!
5:58 pooch 🐶 tail 😂
That’s Tater Tot! She is always trying to get on camera!
Love the Halloween intro!!!!! 👻🎃
I recently discovered your other channel and followed you here. Your videos are awesome!! they are "bite-size" and just perfect for binge-watching. Since you are doing such unique recipes, I'd love it if you could tackle something Paleo-inspired. Thanks
My ma had that box except it was Betty Crocker. I used to look through it when I was hungry lol.
I love this channel you guys are amazing 💖. Hmmm potato in donuts? Probably were drunk off the candycane margarita 😂
You win!
My mother had a box (which I now have) with recipes in it too. But her's came in a metal box. (BTW, my granddaughter helped me find it yesterday. Going to search through it to see what I find!)
My mom and I had a box of recipes like that! Used to get them mailed to you like every month. There is a place in Ohio called Spudnuts. They make their donuts with potato flour. OMG they are so light and delicious. Not like the regular ones that you eat one and you regret it, ahaha. They didn't want to waste leftovers, so with a flour shortage, they had to add some tators, ahaha. OMG I'm laughing so hard you guys are cracking me up!
Ms. Ermintrude (yes that's her real name, thank you very much!) was about to make a batch of doughnuts for the diner, and dangit all, she ran out of flour, because Mayleen used the last of it in the breakfast biscuits! So, what was Ms. Ermintrude to do? She realized that there were a couple boiled potatoes, extras from the mashed potatoes made earlier, and she got to thinking, "Hm, maybe I can use these boiled spuds to make up for the lack of flour!" One innovative idea later, and boom! Potato doughnuts were born! They were a huge hit at Ms. Ermintrude's Diner. Her kids took the recipe, renamed the diner eventually after she passed (RIP Ms. Ermintrude) and thus the potato doughnut became A Thing! The end.
Adorable guys.
The best sweet roll/cinnamon roll recipe I've ever had has mashed potato in it!
This is the high quality content i come to youtube for!
Hey thanks so much. We work really hard on the show and this comment in much appreciated!!!
Omg your cake or death tshirt is amazing 😂
Cake or death is an Eddie Izzard skit
Love this video
She's so gassy..... couldn't stop laughing 😂😂😂😂
LOOOOVE all the spooky halloween stuffs! will there be scary halloween cupcakes? like giant spider with legs sticking out?
OOO I love this idea!!
@@YouveBeenDesserted omg an answer thats so awesome! ty for making my Friday! Have the best weekend!
I binged watch all your videos here heyyy ummm pls do the cake challenge 🥺
It’s happening in a couple of weeks!!
I had a recipe box like that!!
JJR dying as he makes the ham and banana hollaindaise... poor guy xD
Ha ha! It wasn't so bad!!
Wow!!
Lol when the bananas are creepier than the creepy doughnuts
Intros gr8 😂🎃👻
They use potatoes because the other ingredients were actually from some aliens who promised to come back with the right stuff. However, it took them a few years so we had to find a replacement for the delicious food. Potatoes work with everything, why not doughnuts? Lol
You always make me laugh so much! I love the donuts, don't know about the bananas though... My daughters insist we make them! Lots of love, Elen from Greece!!!
Well the banana and Ham recipe is below, if you wanna try it. It's really not so bad!!
@@YouveBeenDesserted if we make it, I'll let you know!
Looks delicious!
Also, FINALLY! Someone else who hates olives!!! Yes! My husband thinks it’s strange, lol.
Hey, I want that card for tomato aspic. My mom made it every holiday dinner.
I am in class but I have never clicked a notification so fast. Love this channel so much 💙💙
LOVE IT! KEEP UM COMMING!
I think those bananas are PERFECT for Halloween... maybe a themed party where everyone has to bring a really gross dish and then you put them in a circle and play spin the bottle but where the bottle lands is the food you have to eat.. revolting food edition... sounds scary to me lol
Maybe that was the favorite veggie of the owner of the donut place.😁
Love from Kenya JJR. You are F.A.B.U.L O.U S
same