dough

Then you smash a couple of packets of instant ramen and mix the bits into the dough with the contents of their seasoning packets.

Slice, dice, blend, and even make dough in this handy unit, and when you’re all done, all the accessories pack away in the boat for easy, compact storage.

There’s also a bowl of fufu—starchy dough that Ama used to make for holidays—and a few trays of chofi, fried turkey tail that my uncle always seems to overcook.

Along one wall was a wooden trough for mixing the dough and metal buckets for adding water to the flour.

I learned how to make a simple skirt as well as to bake peach and cherry cobblers, crisscrossing the dough decoratively across the top.