Word: raisins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Weekend Loafers. A great many of the new weekend breadmakers are men who would rather loaf than golf. To Manfred J. Sobek, 42, marketing vice president for Simmons International Ltd.(they make their bread from beds), this means a Sunday afternoon baking Viennese Strietzel, a kind of raisin bread. Sobek, who lives in Scarsdale, N.Y., also confects German Christmas bread, French bread, succulent Austrian tarts with buttercream and apple strudel. By 1951, when he first arrived in the U.S. from his native Germany, he explains, "I had this tremendous feeling of nostalgia. Holidays in Europe are accompanied by a grand...
...bakers told us they make all the bread except the raisin bread for the five houses because the slicing machine can't cut through the shriveled grapes. Just before moving on, we glanced into a recipe box and hastily copied one card. Recipe for oatmeal muffins (makes 100 dozen) rolled oats 10 lbs. bread flour 20 lbs. cake flour 20 lbs. baking powder 3 lbs. sugar 10 lbs. salt 10 ounces eggs 5 quarts milk 20 quarts shortening...
...wheat crop. Wheat prices to bakers have doubled in a year, to about $12 a hundredweight, and there is no indication of any decline soon. Says John McCarthy, an executive of American Bakeries Co.: "We're now talking about an 8% to 9% price increase across the board." Raisin bread will all but disappear this year; heavy rains ruined the raisin grape crop as it was drying, driving up the price more than 50% to $700 per ton. At that price few bakers can afford them. A shortage of sesame seeds will denude the seeded hamburger bun. Because turkey...
Died. Diana Sands, 39, Broadway star who insisted-and proved-that good acting has nothing to do with race; of cancer; in Manhattan. Critical acclaim first came for her portrayal of an overintellectual college girl in A Raisin in the Sun, and she was consistently excellent as the leading lady in The Owl and the Pussycat, Tiger Tiger Burning Bright and James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charley, for which she received a Tony nomination in 1964. She won an Emmy the same year for the best single performance by an actress in a television series (East Side, West...
...worked for her for 5 years. Then I had other jobs. I was dish-washer at night. I was 14 then. I didn't have any boyfriends. I quit school at 11th grade; I was goin' to have a baby at the time. At first I planned on raisin' the baby, then my father took him over...