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In the dough
Nov. 18th, 2005 09:55 pmI am looking forward to Wednesday when I shall, at my Dad's request, bake Parker House Rolls. I never much thought about it until now, but I Googled it.
It seems Parker House Rolls are from the Parker House in Boston (now the Omni Parker House). This place is pretty infamous. Ho Chi Minh actually worked there as a pastry chef, and Malcolm X was a busboy there. John Wilkes Booth stayed there a few weeks before a certain theatre engagement. It's also the birthplace of the Boston Cream Pie.
The story has it that sometime around 1856, a German baker named Ward got pissed off at a guest and threw some unfinished rolls in the oven. Yay for pissed off German bakers, because the results were the Parker House Rolls we know and love.
Make a fine sweet yeast roll dough. Roll it out and cut circles with a biscuit cutter. Using a rolling pin, push down in the center of each circle, making it an oval. Dip each end in butter, fold in half at the thin spot made by the rolling pin and bake.
My Dad was readmitted to the hospital yesterday. All that needs to happen now is that he needs to get better so he can come home and eat them on Thursday.
It seems Parker House Rolls are from the Parker House in Boston (now the Omni Parker House). This place is pretty infamous. Ho Chi Minh actually worked there as a pastry chef, and Malcolm X was a busboy there. John Wilkes Booth stayed there a few weeks before a certain theatre engagement. It's also the birthplace of the Boston Cream Pie.
The story has it that sometime around 1856, a German baker named Ward got pissed off at a guest and threw some unfinished rolls in the oven. Yay for pissed off German bakers, because the results were the Parker House Rolls we know and love.
Make a fine sweet yeast roll dough. Roll it out and cut circles with a biscuit cutter. Using a rolling pin, push down in the center of each circle, making it an oval. Dip each end in butter, fold in half at the thin spot made by the rolling pin and bake.
My Dad was readmitted to the hospital yesterday. All that needs to happen now is that he needs to get better so he can come home and eat them on Thursday.
