Roll Call

     Some of the best things are created by accident.  And such is the case with a very famous dinner roll first baked at the Parker House Hotel in Boston in the 1870's.  It was there that one of the bakery chefs became exasperated by a demanding dinner patron and angrily tossed a sheet of unfinished dinner rolls into the oven.  The result was the classic roll that has taken on the name of the establishment.  They are crisp with a buttery exterior with a soft, tender crumb in the classic folded shape we have all come to know and enjoy.  But in 19th Century Boston they created quite a stir.  But soon Parker House Rolls were being shipped as far west as Chicago.

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