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Title: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: franksolich on March 04, 2010, 04:18:44 AM
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=236x75534

Oh my.

It's nice to see Mrs. Alfred Packer posting in the cooking and baking forum again; perhaps she and another primitive there with whom she was spatting made up, and so Mrs. Alfred Packer's back.

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hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Wed Mar-03-10 07:13 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
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New (old) kitchen toys!

Just got these in the mail. In the original boxes and the iron has the original pamphlet, very fragile and yellowed, with recipes.

http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=5829648

It's some sort of aluminum "doughnut maker."

I thought the primitives were anti-aluminum.

Anyway, at $9.59, Mrs. Alfred Packer blew away her weekly allowance from hippyhubby Wild Bill; one can't do much with the leftover 41 cents.

Even though Mrs. Alfred Packer works in a nursing home down there in northeastern Oklahoma, Wild Bill lets her have only an allowance, ten bucks a week, which he pays her with a counterfeit bill.  She should be carefully hiding that money, until she has enough for bus fare back to Ohio.

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housewolf  (1000+ posts)        Wed Mar-03-10 08:50 PM
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1. Oh how fun! I want one!

I've often wondered if there was a way to make "regular" cake donuts at home! For a while I worked at a donut shop where they had a big version of that that mounted on the fryer and dropped the dough right into the fryer. I could never figure out how to get the round hole in the middle trying to make them at home. I'll have to keep my eyes open for one of those.

Congrats! You'll have a lot of fun with that. Hope you'll keep us up-to-date with your experiences, and I look forward to some of the great recipes I know you'll come up with.

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grasswire  (1000+ posts)      Wed Mar-03-10 10:47 PM
THE FARMERETTE IN WISCONSIN
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2. when I was a little girl, there was a bakery in the neighborhood...

....with a crazy automated donut machine that automated every function of production. The dough would drop in the oil as you say, and then an arm would hook the donuts after they were turned and browned, and they would be deposited on a track where they would roll like wheels down to a sugaring place, get sugared up and then dropped on another track that would roll them down to a tray right in the front window. I loved to watch this gizmo -- it took up one whole wall of the shop. The cinnamon sugar cake donuts were the best ever.

I tried making donuts again last year. I don't have real good luck. A real deep fryer would probably help the home baker for this. I just used a dutch oven and thermometer. The teenagers loved them, but they weren't up to my expectations.

It's cheaper, easier, and cleaner, to buy doughnuts at the bakery or grocery store anyway.

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Duer 157099  (1000+ posts)        Wed Mar-03-10 11:54 PM
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5. When I stumbled upon my pineapple corer recently it occurred to me that it would probably do fine for cutting donuts, although I haven't done it yet.

after which a photograph of some television informercial product

A primitive would have a pineapple corer and forget she had it, until she "stumbles upon" it again, buried in the back crevasses of the broom closet?

This further proves franksolich's idea that primitives get things just for the sake of getting things, with no intention at all of using them.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on March 04, 2010, 08:56:50 AM
You can make surprisingly-good homemade donuts out of ordinary canned biscuits, just use the top of a cut-off plastic bottle to punch the hole, deepfry them (turning at least once), and then roll them in sugar and cinnamon when done.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: The Village Idiot on March 04, 2010, 09:43:25 AM
You can make surprinsingly-good homemade donuts out of ordinary canned biscuits, just use the top of a cut-off plastic bottle to punch the hole, deepfry them (turning at least once), and then roll them in sugar and cinnamon when done.

We did that sometimes when I was a kid. We also tried to make our own ice cream, which was a chore.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: GOBUCKS on March 04, 2010, 10:56:59 AM
Doughnuts can be made at home, just like pizza. And just like pizza, they're okay, but no where near as good as commercial products. Doughnuts from Krispy Kreme or Dunkin Donuts will be far simpler and vastly better than whatever these DUmmies claim to make at home. It's not surprising that pizza and doughnuts made by someone who does it for a living are better than those made by someone who does it for a diversion.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: Chris on March 04, 2010, 10:58:59 AM
I used to make donuts out of fried bread and pizza dough at a few restaurants I've worked at.  It's okay if you like home-made.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: franksolich on March 04, 2010, 12:02:20 PM
You can make surprisingly-good homemade donuts out of ordinary canned biscuits, just use the top of a cut-off plastic bottle to punch the hole, deepfry them (turning at least once), and then roll them in sugar and cinnamon when done.

But that's w-a-a-a-a-y outside the the capability of the primitives to think of.

Canned biscuits are for making biscuits only.

That one can use something for more than one purpose is an idea that's still a million years ahead in the evolution of primitivity.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: chitownchica on March 04, 2010, 12:15:20 PM
Canned biscuits make excellent dumplings.  The first time I made them I cut the biscuits way to small and they basically evaporated when cooking. That's some good eating once you get the hang of it though.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: GOBUCKS on March 04, 2010, 12:16:32 PM
But that's w-a-a-a-a-y outside the the capability of the primitives to think of.

Canned biscuits are for making biscuits only.

That one can use something for more than one purpose is an idea that's still a million years ahead in the evolution of primitivity.
How long would it take for a DUmmy to think of using the top of a pop bottle to punch out doughnut holes? Kind of like those chimps sticking a straw into a termite hill.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: The Village Idiot on March 04, 2010, 12:22:46 PM
Canned biscuits make excellent dumplings.  The first time I made them I cut the biscuits way to small and they basically evaporated when cooking. That's some good eating once you get the hang of it though.

Yes they do!

Boil the chicken enough to debone it, then boil it again while adding the torn up biscuits. Its very tasty.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: chitownchica on March 04, 2010, 12:31:09 PM
Yes they do!

Boil the chicken enough to debone it, then boil it again while adding the torn up biscuits. Its very tasty.

Add butter and milk before serving and watch the pounds literally jump on ;)
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: AllosaursRus on March 04, 2010, 12:35:23 PM
Screw that! Even Wally World makes better doughnuts than what can come out of the normal American kitchen! There's a privately owned doughnut shop right down the road from me, so I'm spoiled!

I love Krispy Kreams but the closest one is in Spokane, 70 miles away!
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: The Village Idiot on March 04, 2010, 01:01:27 PM
Screw that! Even Wally World makes better doughnuts than what can come out of the normal American kitchen! There's a privately owned doughnut shop right down the road from me, so I'm spoiled!

I love Krispy Kreams but the closest one is in Spokane, 70 miles away!

There was an independent called Ted's Dutch Made Donuts down the street when I was a kid. Best donuts ever. too bad he retired.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: thundley4 on March 04, 2010, 01:19:02 PM
Screw that! Even Wally World makes better doughnuts than what can come out of the normal American kitchen! There's a privately owned doughnut shop right down the road from me, so I'm spoiled!

I love Krispy Kreams but the closest one is in Spokane, 70 miles away!

Krispy Kremes are sold at a couple of places here, a grocery store and a convenience store down the road. However, Walmart's are better, I think.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on March 04, 2010, 01:44:19 PM
I don't really see the big deal about Krispy Kremes, they are kinda like cotton candy with some flour mixed in.  Not much to them but air and sugar.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: AllosaursRus on March 04, 2010, 02:13:31 PM
I don't really see the big deal about Krispy Kremes, they are kinda like cotton candy with some flour mixed in.  Not much to them but air and sugar.

Spokane has the Krispy Kream bakery, where you can get them right out of the fryer and still warm. I guess that's what sets them apart for me.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: PatriotGame on March 04, 2010, 03:10:58 PM
You can make surprisingly-good homemade donuts out of ordinary canned biscuits, just use the top of a cut-off plastic bottle to punch the hole, deepfry them (turning at least once), and then roll them in sugar and cinnamon when done.
No shit! See what a person cam come up with when their mind hasn't been crippled by 30 years of sucking on a bong?
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: PatriotGame on March 04, 2010, 03:20:08 PM
There was an independent called Ted's Dutch Made Donuts down the street when I was a kid. Best donuts ever. too bad he retired.
I grew up in Idaho Falls, ID the potato (spuds) capital of the world. There was a chain  doughnut shop based from Utah there called "Spudnuts" that used dried potato flakes in their dough. 10X better than Krispy Kreams any day. They were actually internationally known for the taste and texture of their doughnuts. I used to sell them at the ages of 8 - 10 in the summers after school was let out. I made 5 cents for every dozen I sold and on a typical day, I would make a dollar by 10AM.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: kenth on March 04, 2010, 03:36:18 PM
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=236x75534

Oh my.

It's nice to see Mrs. Alfred Packer posting in the cooking and baking forum again; perhaps she and another primitive there with whom she was spatting made up, and so Mrs. Alfred Packer's back.

It's some sort of aluminum "doughnut maker."

I thought the primitives were anti-aluminum.

Anyway, at $9.59, Mrs. Alfred Packer blew away her weekly allowance from hippyhubby Wild Bill; one can't do much with the leftover 41 cents.

Even though Mrs. Alfred Packer works in a nursing home down there in northeastern Oklahoma, Wild Bill lets her have only an allowance, ten bucks a week, which he pays her with a counterfeit bill.  She should be carefully hiding that money, until she has enough for bus fare back to Ohio.

It's cheaper, easier, and cleaner, to buy doughnuts at the bakery or grocery store anyway.

A primitive would have a pineapple corer and forget she had it, until she "stumbles upon" it again, buried in the back crevasses of the broom closet?

This further proves franksolich's idea that primitives get things just for the sake of getting things, with no intention at all of using them.

Materialism; without God in their lives they are hollow and directionless. Their self worth is based on what they can amass. In the case of some dummies, their self worth is whatever a pineapple corer costs.

But it's a good thing for Mrs. Packer that she can cook. I imagine that she cooks constantly, providing course after course so that she doesn't become one.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: The Village Idiot on March 04, 2010, 05:03:01 PM
I grew up in Idaho Falls, ID the potato (spuds) capital of the world. There was a chain  doughnut shop based from Utah there called "Spudnuts" that used dried potato flakes in their dough. 10X better than Krispy Kreams any day. They were actually internationally known for the taste and texture of their doughnuts. I used to sell them at the ages of 8 - 10 in the summers after school was let out. I made 5 cents for every dozen I sold and on a typical day, I would make a dollar by 10AM.

Spudnuts.

A nickel a dozen? Was this the 30's?
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: franksolich on March 04, 2010, 05:09:45 PM
Materialism; without God in their lives they are hollow and directionless. Their self worth is based on what they can amass. In the case of some dummies, their self worth is whatever a pineapple corer costs.

That's it, exactly, sir.

These are the sorts of people who jam Wal-Mart at 12:01 a.m. the third day of every month, and then go whining for food stamps about two weeks later because they have no money.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: franksolich on March 04, 2010, 05:47:29 PM
Spudnuts.

A nickel a dozen? Was this the 30's?

Uh, as our esteemed colleague PatriotGame pointed out, he made a "profit" of five cents on each dozen he sold; he didn't sell them for five cents.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: AllosaursRus on March 04, 2010, 06:06:01 PM
Uh, as our esteemed colleague PatriotGame pointed out, he made a "profit" of five cents on each dozen he sold; he didn't sell them for five cents.

My mistake Coach! You're right as usual!
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: The Village Idiot on March 04, 2010, 06:09:36 PM
Uh, as our esteemed colleague PatriotGame pointed out, he made a "profit" of five cents on each dozen he sold; he didn't sell them for five cents.

true that
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: franksolich on March 04, 2010, 06:10:33 PM
My mistake Coach! You're right as usual!

Not "as usual," sir, just "sometimes."

It's just that our esteemed colleague PatriotGame and I go back a long ways--not quite as long as you and I, but long--and while we disagree on some minor things, we agree on all things important.

PatriotGame is a tried-and-true gentleman, the salt of the earth.

When I first bumped into PatriotGame, for a while there, I suspected he was P-J Comix of the DUmmie FUnnies fame, but I was massively wrong on that.

I just corrected the error, because I noticed he wasn't on line to defend himself.

<<always watching everybody's backs.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: AllosaursRus on March 04, 2010, 06:20:29 PM
Not "as usual," sir, just "sometimes."

It's just that our esteemed colleague PatriotGame and I go back a long ways--not quite as long as you and I, but long--and while we disagree on some minor things, we agree on all things important.

PatriotGame is a tried-and-true gentleman, the salt of the earth.

When I first bumped into PatriotGame, for a while there, I suspected he was P-J Comix of the DUmmie FUnnies fame, but I was massively wrong on that.

I just corrected the error, because I noticed he wasn't on line to defend himself.

<<always watching everybody's backs.

that's why I hang out here Bubba, that's why I hang out here! Couldn't find a more loyal bunch, anywhere!
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: PatriotGame on March 04, 2010, 06:53:09 PM
Spudnuts.

A nickel a dozen? Was this the 30's?
No, back then the doughnuts themselves were about $2.00 for a baker's dozen and I made a nickel off of that 2 bucks.
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: PatriotGame on March 04, 2010, 06:54:18 PM
Not "as usual," sir, just "sometimes."

It's just that our esteemed colleague PatriotGame and I go back a long ways--not quite as long as you and I, but long--and while we disagree on some minor things, we agree on all things important.

PatriotGame is a tried-and-true gentleman, the salt of the earth.

When I first bumped into PatriotGame, for a while there, I suspected he was P-J Comix of the DUmmie FUnnies fame, but I was massively wrong on that.

I just corrected the error, because I noticed he wasn't on line to defend himself.

<<always watching everybody's backs.

Thank you, thank you, and thank you again 5X!
Title: Re: Mrs. Alfred Packer bidding on Goodwill stuff again
Post by: The Village Idiot on March 04, 2010, 07:27:20 PM
No, back then the doughnuts themselves were about $2.00 for a baker's dozen and I made a nickel off of that 2 bucks.

got it