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The potato doughnut sometimes called a Spudnut is a doughnut typically sweet made with either mashed potatoes or potato starch instead of flour the most common ingredient used for doughnut dough. Potato doughnuts were introduced in the mid-1900s and a recipe was published in 1938. Potato doughnuts tend to be lighter than flour doughnuts and are prepared in a similar method to other doughnuts.