Does anyone have a dough board cabinet?

[fishhead]

A friend of mine from TN told me about a dough board cabinet he got from his grandmother. It sounds like a great idea for someone who bakes bread a lot.

Does anyone have one or pictures of one?

[Pelenaka]

No, but I have been wanting one ever since I saw one at an upscale antique shop - $580 was the price. I took few pics with my cell phone so hubby would know what I wanted him to build. Unfortunetly I can't post the pic because we don't have email on our cell phone plan. We're cheap.
Where's a link I found that gives you an idea of one type.
The one that I saw reminded me of a dry sink with cupboard doors and shelf below, had a wooden lid that fit on top of the trough area (were the dry sink would normally be) . About as big as a treadle sewing machine when it's closed. It was a light colored wood.
Admired it from afar as it wasn't in useable condition.

When I saw it all I could think of was keeping my bread baking equipment; grain mill & dough bucket, along with pans and ingredients in the cupboard portion.
I think the King Arthur website has dough troughs made of a certain type of food from a swamp carved by virgins during full moons which is my way of saying they're pricey.
Since I'm cheap I have no idea if a wooden dough trough has been my missing element in my bread baking.

~~ pelenaka ~~

[fishhead]

The one my friend described had a built in flour sifter too.

I'll bet a person could fix a treadle or pedal powered stone grinder to the cabinet too.

[featherbottoms]

I don't exactly have a dough board but I have something that originally had similar purpose.

As ya'll probably know, the tops on Hoosier cabinets pull out to use for making bread. We had the porcelain top off one and I wanted to use it as a work table. My husband attached it to a plywood base and made some 4x4 legs so now it's my main kitchen work table.



The edges are a bit rough but the porcelain top itself is almost indestructible. I use it all the time for making bread and the past few days I've been using it for making flour and corn tortillas. It's a wonderful work table, easy to clean, and when we didn't have anything else we also used it as a dining room table.

I use to have a large dough bowl for making bread but I sold it when we got this work table.

fishhead, the link that Pelenaka posted (the 3rd line down) shows a picture of one.

Debora

[Pelenaka]

Originally Posted by fishhead

The one my friend described had a built in flour sifter too.

Sounds alot like a Hoosier cabinet.

[fishhead]

He said his has a bin for storing flour and several drawers. I'll have to see if he can send me a pic.

[Helena]

Yep..sounds like a Hoosier cabinet with the flour shifter and all. Perhaps the top part of the cabinet was taken off and just left a table like bottom with the drawers.

[Wolf mom]

I dunno if I have one or not. My cupboard has 2 drawers & a bunch of cabinets in it. An upper one has a bin with a funnel/sifter for flour. It also has a pull out porcelain shelf like featherbottom's picture. Really old.

I tore off a kitchen cabinet that was blocking my view out the eating area windows & needed something to put my dishes in on another wall. This fit the bill.

I saw something close to Pelenaka's link & thought what a great coffee table with the legs cut short. I had no idea.... As I remember,the price was only around $200.00

[mustangsally17]

Sounds like a Hoosier, this is mine. To the left is a big flour sifter the work surface pulls out..I love mine and use it often.

[Emmy D]

I have the same thing Mustang Sally has but mine does not have the three little drawers under the roll/pull down and is not quite as wide. The sifter pulls out over the counter part. Oh and mine was never painted, just stained and varnished. It was my Great Grandma's and I use it often.

Emmy

[Pelenaka]

Originally Posted by Wolf mom

I dunno if I have one or not..I saw something close to Pelenaka's link & thought what a great coffee table with the legs cut short. I had no idea.... As I remember,the price was only around $200.00

Sounds like you have a Hoosier style cabinet. Knock offs were sold by everyone such as Sears & Montgomery Ward, or a local store could slap their own label on.
There was also a line of matching kitchen furniture such as dinette sets.
I can't seem to find a decent link but I am sure you have seen those white kitchen table & chairs with the enameled tops and a silverware drawer.
W.M. I'm sure the 1st choice of many who saw that dough trough was wooden wash basin, wooden baby tub since we all know people were smaller then, lol.
Before I nag hubby into building me a dough trough cabinet I should investigate if I really need a dough trough for bread baking. Thinking the answer is no since I've been bread baking from scratch for years now without one.
Still I bet I'd be the only girl on the block with one.

~~ pelenaka ~~

[Emmy D]

Originally Posted by Pelenaka

There was also a line of matching kitchen furniture such as dinette sets. I can't seem to find a decent link but I am sure you have seen those white kitchen table & chairs with the enameled tops and a silverware drawer.

~~ pelenaka ~~

My enameled top kitchen table has two pull out leafs, they come from under the main part of the table and a silverware drawer...I got it from my Great Aunt and love it SO much!

Emmy

[Pelenaka]

They are great, petite so a good fit in kitchens. Can be hard to find especially the chairs.
Many ended up in basements and rotted. I have 3 enamel panels that have a black scroll design from a gf. They were originally part of her grandmother's Hoosier style dinette set that was stored in a basement.
Plan to use it as a back splash behind a claw foot tub.

~~ pelenaka ~~

[Ken Scharabok]

Surprisingly you can still buy aftermarket parts for Hoosier Cabinets:

- Uncle Tom's Hoosier Cabinets: Parts & Accessories Catalog (800-892-5695).
- Phyllis Kennedy Hardware: Antique Restoration Hardware and Supplies (317-873-1316).
- C&H Supply Co.:Complete Antique Restoration Supply Source (800-443-0932).

[braggscowboy]

This is the type of cabinet that you are talking about, I think. Not just the one, I have seen a couple over the years and they are loaded with small drawers and have a dough board with leg under it. Wonderful, would like to purchase one, but quiet high if found. Hard to find, last one I saw was a few years ago and not for sale in Booneville Ark.

[braggscowboy]

Here is another cabinet that some call a bakers cabinet, but is refered to around here in Okla. as a "possum belly", for obovious reasons. I, like you would love to have a "bakers cabinet". They will have lots, and lots of drawers and are very tall.

[Horseyrider]

The dough board cabinets I've seen in the antique stores are usually a bit lower than usual countertop height, with no shelves over it, so you can really get over the cabinet and work the dough. The top is removable to reveal a trough where the rising takes place. Kneading can be done there, or on the removable top. It looks more like a dry sink, you know? Then there are cupboards or pull out bins below for several kinds of flour or sugar.

I would love to have one, but I have yet to see one in the antique stores at any price that is still sturdy enough to be used. Most are just way too fragile and dried up. I'm guessing they were well loved; and when storebought bread came to be used, they were retired to a barn or shed. They're pretty display pieces though.

[jwal10]

I have a dough box, it has a false bottom and a bread board on top. Mix or knead the dough on top, set and cover the wood bowl with a tea towel on top of the false bottom to rest and rise. Measuring cups, biscuit cutters and a rolling pin fit in compartments under the false bottom. I was told it was used for sourdough and was used in a chuckwagon. We use it almost everyday. Made out of an 18" wide pine board. Grandma soaked the bowl in water before using, measured and mixed, let rest, rolled the dough and cut the biscuits on the floured board. I know it went from Arkansas to New Mexico and back in 1913, then came from Kansas to Oregon in 1953. Baking cabinet?....James

[fishhead]

My friend did say something about the top sliding or lifting out for use. I couldn't figure out how it could be supported but I bet swing out legs would do the job.

[Pelenaka]

Originally Posted by jwal10

I have a dough box, it has a false bottom and a bread board on top. Mix or knead the dough on top, set and cover the wood bowl with a tea towel on top of the false bottom to rest and rise. Measuring cups, biscuit cutters and a rolling pin fit in compartments under the false bottom. I was told it was used for sourdough and was used in a chuckwagon. We use it almost everyday. Made out of an 18" wide pine board. Grandma soaked the bowl in water before using, measured and mixed, let rest, rolled the dough and cut the biscuits on the floured board. I know it went from Arkansas to New Mexico and back in 1913, then came from Kansas to Oregon in 1953. Baking cabinet?....James

I'd bake u a pie if u posted a few pics and measurments.

~~ pelenaka ~~