Parker House roll
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- noun
- /ˈpɑrkər haʊs roʊl/
- US
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pan Parker House
- For Thanksgiving dinner, everyone looked forward to the fluffy Parker House rolls as a delicious addition to the feast.
Examples
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Those Parker House Rolls: Four magazines are featuring recipes for rolls this year, especially the ever-popular Parker House Rolls that show up this year in both Food Network and Bon Appétit.
Blog text (6) -
You know, my favorite is a Parker House roll.
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I've made Parker House rolls.
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Her miniature Parker House rolls have been known to float the roof off a flooded house in hurricane season.
Academic text (2011) -
Those Parker House Rolls: Four magazines are featuring recipes for rolls this year, especially the ever-popular Parker House Rolls that show up this year in both Food Network and Bon Appétit.
Blog text (6) -
At the family reunion, we served homemade butter alongside warm Parker House rolls fresh from the oven.
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She learned to bake Parker House rolls by following her grandmother's traditional recipe handed down through generations.
Synonyms
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A small round bread made with yeast that has a soft crust and soft inside
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This is a proper-name food item named after the Parker House (a cultural/historical source), so the constituents do not convey the specific culinary meaning. Knowing 'house' and 'roll' might suggest it is some kind of roll, but a B1 learner could not derive that it is a soft, buttery yeast roll folded before baking, making the expression unpredictable from its parts.
Etymology
Parker House roll may come from the Parker House hotel in Boston, where one popular story says a baker folded a round of dough in half before baking to make each roll. That folding gave the roll a warm, 'soft, buttery' inside, so today Parker House roll means a small dinner roll with a 'folded' shape.