http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=236x75534Oh 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
