...Utility Dough! And maybe if we're lucky, we can have it with an Adequate Roast, Some Expedient Green Beans, and a glass of room temperature tap water.
Saturday, January 26, 2019
Funny Name: That's ... Serviceable
I think I have just found the most delicious-sounding recipe title ever in The Grange Cookbook Casseroles Including Breads (1969). Let's all have a heaping helping of ...
...Utility Dough! And maybe if we're lucky, we can have it with an Adequate Roast, Some Expedient Green Beans, and a glass of room temperature tap water.
...Utility Dough! And maybe if we're lucky, we can have it with an Adequate Roast, Some Expedient Green Beans, and a glass of room temperature tap water.
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...so...scary...on so many levels!
ReplyDeleteNot really. It's kind of hard to go too wrong with basic bread, and these must have been a real convenience for women who were expected to make fresh bread all the time. I just think the name is bad.
DeleteI agree, basic bread isn't too bad. It's just the name. At first I was thinking of that play dough recipe people made for kids. Or is it for when you need really sturdy dough, like for an unruly pie? Is this the dough that you spread over leftovers and bake, so you can try to pass them off as something new? I was shaken by the idea that duct tape had a dough equivalent. Then I was trying to figure out what you would use so much dough for outside of a food service setting (granted, if you have 8 or 10 kids, I guess it would go pretty fast).
DeleteIt keeps for two weeks, too, so I imagine the intention was to just keep it on hand so families could make rolls as needed. It's a cheaper (and probably better tasting) equivalent to the canned dough in the refrigerator aisle. The name does sound like the dough equivalent of duct tape, though! Good analogy.
Deletewhen you read the ingredients....I bet these actually make some delicious rolls...with honey butter :D
ReplyDeletePotato usually makes bread nice and moist, too (though I might go with butter instead of shortening).
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