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What is a Potato Doughnut?

Back in the 1930s, potatoes were cheaper than flour. Grandma was looking for ways to stretch her dollar, and started adding mashed potatoes to doughnuts. We replace about 1/3 of the flour in our recipe with fresh riced mashed potatoes. It gives them a unique texture and a longer shelf life than your average doughnut. They don’t taste like potatoes; they taste like a really good doughnut.

Pictured here is my dad’s uncle Mac making doughnuts in his home in Norway, Maine, in the 1950s.

Traditional Doughnut Ingredients:

Potato doughnut ingredients may include wheat flour, potato, sugar, butter, milk, eggs, baking soda, baking powder (sodium bicarbonate, aluminum sulfate, monocalcium phosphate), salt, vanilla (vanilla bean, alcohol), nutmeg, canola oil.

Vegan Doughnut Ingredients:

Wheat flour, potato, pumpkin, sugar, canola oil, oat milk, flax meal, baking soda, baking powder (sodium bicarbonate, aluminum sulfate, monocalcium phosphate), salt, vanilla (vanilla bean, alcohol), nutmeg. Vegan doughnuts are fried in the same oil as our traditional doughnuts. We filter the oil every day and change the oil every three days. We also fry the vegan first thing in the morning. We offer two or three flavors of vegan doughnuts.

Glazes:

Glazes may include powdered sugar (cornstarch), butter, milk, cocoa, cocoa butter, cinnamon, sprinkles. Seasonal doughnuts include seasonal fruit. All fruit glazes are vegan.

Landline Doughnuts and Coffee was featured in the Longmont Leader!

Thank you so much, @longmont_leader, for highlighting us on May 18, 2022. Ali interviewed us in April and wrote this great article about our story.

Old Recipe, New Flavor. Landline Doughnuts Offers Sweet Treats

Longmont’s newest donut shop Landline Doughnuts & Coffee is enclosed in nostalgia. Vintage decor and the bakery’s 1930s donut recipe using mashed potatoes pay homage to a time long past. Continue reading.