On Sat 21 Jan 2006 02:13:26a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it jmcquown?
> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Fri 20 Jan 2006 11:08:47p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it
>> jmcquown?
>>
>>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>> On Fri 20 Jan 2006 10:31:46p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it
>>>> jmcquown?
>>>>
>>>>> Arri London wrote:
>>>>>> Anyone have a tried and true recipe for those very soft dinner
>>>>>> rolls? Have tried a few recipes from the cookbooks we have
>>>>>> inherited but the rolls are just too 'bready' instead of soft and
>>>>>> fluffy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My mother likes them and I'm trying to get as many calories into
>>>>>> her as poss LOL.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TIA
>>>>>
>>>>> YES YES and did I say YES?! These are from the 1978 Good
>>>>> Housekeeping Cookbook. Wonderful, soft, tasty prep ahead yeast
>>>>> rolls. Ready? Here you go!
>>>>>
>>>>> Refrigerator Rolls
>>>>>
>>> (snipped self)
>>>> These sound wonderful! Two questions, Jill... Once baked, do the
>>>> rolls freeze well? Do you think one could successfully make half a
>>>> recipe?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> I would imagine they'd freeze okay if properly wrapped. I've never
>>> tried to make a half recipe. These rolls are wonderful and soft...
>>> if you ever ate at the old - here kicks in my age, I can't remember
>>> the name of the place, a diner on Southern Avenue by Hollywood, with
>>> an old pie case and red stools at the counter and a few tables -
>>> opened a new location out east... dang, what was the name of the
>>> place?! Anyway, they'd give baskets of rolls like this with butter
>>> which were to DIE for. These rolls are like those 
>>
>> I'll try one or the other. I don't dare have 30 rolls available to
>> me at one time! :-) I don't remember the diner, but I think rolls
>> like these were also served at the Britling's Cafeteria that was in
>> the complex by Lowenstein's East. I loved eating there.
>
> Britling's!!! I'd forgotten all about that place! Got some great
> shopping deals at Lowensteins when they went out of business.
>
> I *remembered!* Buntyn's! Used to be over off of Hollywood & Southern
> next to the railroad tracks. They moved to Park at White Station and
> went way downhill from there. Used to be a real old diner with pies in
> pie cases and those old-time red seats in front of the counter. Some
> tables scattered here and there... and those rolls! Ooooh boy! and
> cornbread muffins, mixed in.
>
> Now they've moved to Park Avenue and guess what? Can you sing the song
> from the old 'Green Acres' TV show? "Give me Park avenue" has made this
> place go from a wonderful home-town place to down hill, fast. Go there
> for lunch; yes, it's packed. The food? Now it's *mediocre*. I think
> the rolls are pre-packaged frozen these days. The corn muffins are
> definitely not up to par. So much for relocating the business. You're
> better off going to the CK's Coffee Shop. So sad to see a tradition go
> downhill like that.
Yes, I really hate seeing these old places go downhill and to the point of
non-existence. Very sad. There used to be a little Toddle House
restaurant on Poplar in White Station that had the best chocolate cream pie
I've ever eaten. Long gone for many years. On one visit to Memphis in the
late 1980s, I tracked down a Toddle House in a scary part of town, only to
find that the chocolate cream pie was barely edible.
For many years Stouffer's Food Corp. was based in the Cleveland, OH area
where Vernon Stouffer made his home. All the years before Stouffer died
there were numerous Stouffer restaurants in Cleveland and the suburbs, all
of which served delightful food. Their decline and demise followed shortly
after his death.
In St. Louis there was Miss Hullings Cafeteria, a venerable institution
with excellent food. After many decades it also eventually declined and
died. I guess if you live a very short life you don't see this happen too
often. :-)
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Wayne Boatwright տլ
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