I was born and raised in Salt Lake City, UT.  Life was good.  The only donut ever worth the calories was a Spudnut.  All of a sudden, in 1975, it was impossible to get the taste back.  Oh sure, people said they HAD Spudnuts, but they lied.  Ever since then, I have chased warm, hot, fresh, cold, frosted, and all sorts of donuts.  NOTHING ever came close.  Not KK, not any national brand name, not even the mom and pop varieties.
     I called up a baker who had a distribution company and asked him if he had the original mix in 2000.  He said he did somewhere.  He told me I had to come up with 1,000 lbs. to order the mix.  I swallowed.  All I wanted to do was to bring back the donuts for my friends and neighbors.  I told him sure, and he made up the mix.  I gave the 6 lb. bags to about 50 people.  BIG MISTAKE!  Not one tried making them.  I learned a lesson about giving things away.  The human psyche doesn't value free food.  So now, I only sell it.  And life was good.
     Then, in Dec. 2008, I got in contact with the Exec. V.P. and General Manager of Spudnut International, Inc. from 1970 to 1974 whose name was Will Bellar.  He asked me if I'd like to see his recipe book.  I told him most certainly, in fact, he asked if I'd like to buy it.  ABSOLUTELY.  When I got the book, I noticed there were 5 donut ingredient lists.  I asked Will why was that?  He told me only one was used in the franchise stores. All the other recipes were for other commercial baking companies.  The one I had been using, thinking I had the real, original mix, was one of the other mixes.  It was darn good, but not quite the real thing.
     I made up a large amount of mix, and sell it in 6# bags, 25# bags, and 50# bags.  I have talked to hundreds of wonderful people who have told me their favorite memories.  Some men delivered them door to door to homes and businesses when they were 10 to 12 years old.  Others had parents or grandparents who owned a store.  Still others worked at a Spudnut store.  One told me how his grandfather would sell a bag to the pizza parlor across the road.  They made the crust out of the dough and the gentleman I spoke with from Ames, Iowa said that was the best pizza he ever ate!
     Another man reordered a 50# bag to use for pancakes and waffles.  That's when I started playing around with the mix and came up with substituting Original Spudnut (tm) mix for the flour in German pancakes.  Wow, they are good.  I hope you have as much fun as I have enjoying these.  Whether you choose to open an Original Spudnut store, use your own model cafe or restaurant, or just cook them up for friends and family, these are great.  Bon Appetit!