Does anyone have a dough board cabinet?

[lovinthislife]

I have a hoosier cupboard that has a montgomery ward emblem on it. I love it. My uncle died and I bought an old table exactly like Debora posted only mine is red. Two of the legs were broken on it so my wonderful husband put it on a cabinet and that left half of it open underneath. That is where I keep the garbage can.

The top is the best thing to roll out any kind of dough. I don't remember what they call that top but I would love to find a bunch more of it. I'd rather have that for all my counter tops.

Usually when I would make pies, biscuits, anything that I had to roll out, it was hard to clean up. You'd wash it and later you'd still find some film on it. KWIM? But this thing is the best it washes up so great. I love it. It sits right between my stove and the hoosier.

[Aintlifegrand]

Originally Posted by 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

I have a enamel table like that in white with red trim I use for a desk.. it has a little drawer... but I also have a top in white with black edges but no legs in perfect condition and I have been trying to decide what to do with it...Is yours at island height for standing or is it it at table height?

[Grits57]

I know what you are talking about. I've also heard then called a dough trough A friend used to have one... hubby aquired it during their divorce.

[SueMc]

Originally Posted by 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).

We've been to Kennedy's store in Indiana. It's a great place to find anything you might need to restore a cabinet.
We have two cabinets, a Hoosier and Sellers, both in the process of being restored.

[SueMc]

Originally Posted by Emmy D

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

We bought a blue and white one with matching vinyl chairs. We love it. I see blue and white and red and white sets occasionally at antique stores or auctions.

[lmrose]

I had never heard of a dough board cabinet until seeing it here! However I have an old Hossier which I love. It has a flour bin and metal surface that extends out. Like today I used the surface for kneading bread dough. It is lower than a modern kitchen counter so I can sit and knead or work there when I can't stand anymore. I keep all my baking supplies in it. I like the roll up front and all the drawers and shelves behind doors. I found this one at antique store 60 miles from where I live. It originated in Indiana though. Don't know how it ended up in Nova Scotia. We had one in our house when I was growing up and always wanted one. It is the only one I have ever seen here.

[SueMc]

This Hoosier cabinet book is very nice to have. Lots of info about alot of different cabinets:

http://www.kennedyhardware.com/hoosier-book.html

[jwal10]

Originally Posted by Pelenaka

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

~~ pelenaka ~~

It looks almost Identical to this one 18'x18"x30" long. I don't have the stand, don't know if it ever had one. The lid turns over and is flat to use as a bread board. The bottom compartment is 3" deep, has a rail to hold the cover. The original bowl is 15", 2 little flats fit in recesses almost like the handles to keep it in place. The bowl is 10" tall and so is the compartment it fits in, same depth. Sorry I don't have a camera....James

http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_ite....php?id=285813

[featherbottoms]

Originally Posted by Aintlifegrand

I have a enamel table like that in white with red trim I use for a desk.. it has a little drawer... but I also have a top in white with black edges but no legs in perfect condition and I have been trying to decide what to do with it...Is yours at island height for standing or is it it at table height?

We made this 31" tall which is just a bit taller than our dining room table. At our last house we used it for a dining room table because it'll all we had, but it was just a tad too tall. We made this work table a good height for me for making bread. Someone taller, or shorter, might want it a different height. If I were you I'd measure what feels good for you and have it made to fit the way you work. I'm very fond of my table and would like to have another for my plant room.

Debora
featherbottoms

[featherbottoms]

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 like to see a pic of this too

[FarmboyBill]

I have 2 of them. Both different from each other in certain respects. One dosent have a flour sifter, It has a pull down slideing segmented door. It has a mirror mounted in the upper porton center of it. 2 shelves are on the upper porton, and , I believe, there are parts of it missing below the table top, includeing 1 door. The other has 2 swinging doors on the upper portion. Mounted in the R door faceing it, on the inside is a spice rack. The flour sifter is behind the L door. It has a tbleware shelf immeadiatly under the table top. It has a door that has a tin lid that slides on it with perferations in the lid. I Think its for storeing bread. It has a big door on the L side for storeing big crocks, canners, ect, and I think 2 more, lower doors under the tin lined one. It has 2 slideing doors that come from either dierction and are segmented and come around from back to meet at the front. They cover the area below the 2 shelves above on the upper part and the bottom shelf which rests on the table top.

BUT, I wonder of the origional mentioned post has to do with something different. Anybody remember the Waltons. In the center of the kitchen stood a table on which they worked bread. It had 2 shelves below it that had 1/2 moon bottoms on it. I would think they were for flour, and maybe oats for oatmeal? Just a guess. I have a set of slides that fit one of those old time plastic scopes where you inserted a slide and clicked a lever to move it around, of the Waltons, and can see it clearly

[fishhead]

Originally Posted by lmrose

I had never heard of a dough board cabinet until seeing it here! However I have an old Hossier which I love. It has a flour bin and metal surface that extends out. Like today I used the surface for kneading bread dough. It is lower than a modern kitchen counter so I can sit and knead or work there when I can't stand anymore. I keep all my baking supplies in it. I like the roll up front and all the drawers and shelves behind doors. I found this one at antique store 60 miles from where I live. It originated in Indiana though. Don't know how it ended up in Nova Scotia. We had one in our house when I was growing up and always wanted one. It is the only one I have ever seen here.

Could you post a picture?

And could you post a picture too Bill?

[o&itw]

I have seen cabinets, similar to "Hoosier" cabinets which instead of having a bread board pull out, have a thing sort of like a drawer, that is formed as a dough trough. Apparently when the owner got done with their kneading, they simply left a chunk in the drawer with a cloth over it and used that to mix in for the next day's batch of yeast. I have tried to find a picture of one, but can only find pictures of the trough.

It would seem to me that either women back then were quite short, or they suffered a lot of lower back pain from leaning over.

[FarmboyBill]

no i cant

[GrannyG]

I have a table top like Featherbottoms sitting out in the yard...used it like a coffee table in the summer...will be redoing that top now...LOL....mine sits on a double pair of metal legs that hold washtubs...getting all kinds of great ideas here...

[Itilley]

I have a Hoosier cabinet and it is really nice. It also gives me extra storage for baking supplies. I will try to get a picture of it and see if I can put it on here.

RenieB

[upnorthlady]

I don't have a Hoosier cabinet, but I bought some of those reproduction flour sifters from Kennedy Hardware in Noblesville, IN. as mentioned in a link in a post above. I have one for bread flour and one for regular flour. They were made using the same equipment and presses that the original Hoosier cabinets were made from. I have these flour bins mounted underneath my kitchen cabinet, alongside a large maple cutting board mounted on the countertop. The next best thing to a Hoosier cabinet. The flour sifters were $75 ea, and the maple cutting board was from McMaster-Carr in NC about $99 I think, a 24 x 36 x 2 inch.

[7thswan]

I suppose this is what you are talking about. The top is covered in tin-an early Hoosier- and it pulls out. If you look real close behind the chicken cookie jar, you will see the curved piece of metal that holds up the top part of the cabinet when the part is slid out for working with dough.I never use it tho, instead use an old chopping block that is a better height for me. Inside the cabinet is all the paperwork on the doors and the Flour container/sifter is on the right.

[GrannyG]

That is beautiful...love your crock bowls too...I have several of them, love them for mixing my bread....

[secretcreek]

I have been pricing these in my area. I have tons of Ohio pottery that I use all the time and would love a Hoosier cabinet. Saw one that hadn't been painted over but needed a bit of TLC for $275.00 recently. See others as nice as yours for around $1000.00 if it has the flour bin/ spice and sugar glass ware too.