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« Missed opportunities? | Main | Coulda woulda shoulda » Monday, January 8, 2007The search for cinnamon rolls
Food memories are perhaps the ones that last the longest. My fondest is the cinnamon rolls all the mothers made at home in my tiny, mostly German immigrant community in Kansas. My grandmother's were the best, and trying to recreate that warm, yeasty, spicy flavor has occupied many baking hours. Bakeries in the Northeast don't usually bother with cinnamon rolls, instead, if they tread into the genre at all, offer sticky buns. Sticky buns can be delicious -- or sometimes just sticky -- but it's a different sort of treat, more like a candy derivative than something you'd want for breakfast. So when I stopped at the South Boston bakery Sweet Tooth the other morning looking for cookies for a dinner party, I couldn't resist buying what the baker called "Mom's cinnamon rolls." The rolls were warm, so the woman at the counter carefully put them in a bag. Her smile showed she thought the roll was special, even in a shop filled with elaborately-decorated small pastries and cakes. When I got to work, I tasted a bite. The yeasty rolls were probably from a recipe very similar to my grandmother Dora's. My colleagues made quick work of the rest, while I pondered. Good, though not quite grandma's. But that's the thing about childhood memories. Posted by Alison Arnett at 10:09 AM
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