our job was to help weigh the dough and make bread rolls – eight rolls for each pound of dough. the sooner we got the job done, the sooner we could head back to bed, only to be called forty minutes later to weigh out another batch of bread.
we learned to split the dough into halves, then quarters, then eighths. when the time came to weigh dough for bread loaves, we learned to eye the dough and grab a large hunk. sometimes all it took to get that dough to the two pound mark was a thumb-tip size piece of dough. if the scale measured over, we learned quickly how 