by Bobbie Goering
I remember Aunt Della telling a story about how after she and Walt moved to Chicago (@1940), she decided to make bread and used a recipe from Aunt Elva or Aunt Frieda. Of course, when Aunt Frieda or Aunt Elva baked bread it was for a small army. Aunt Della laughed about how she had to borrow bread pans from her neighbors and there was bread cooling on windows all over their apartment building.
Kate asked for poppy seed rolls; she was coming to visit. I got busy. I found in my mom’s tin box a recipe for Sweet Dough from Aunt Elva http://dorotheasrecipes.blogspot.com/2011/04/sweet-dough.html
This recipe states very clearly that it was the recipe Aunt Elva used cooking for at the Home and when she cooked at home, she would cut it in half. That sounded like a good idea for me.
I should know by now: if one does half a recipe, it is a good idea to write it out!
I started with step one and I forgot to halve it. Well, that’s better than halving everything except the last step. Now I was committed to a big batch.
Here I am with the first 3 rolls, with 5 more pans waiting to bake behind me:
Kate took a roll home, David & Cathy took a roll home, I gave some to neighbors, I took a roll to my weaving class, I’ll take some to my French class, froze a bunch….