Cooks used extra time to bake cinnamon rolls

I was a teacher in Kansas during the 1980s (before I moved to Arizona and retired in 2009 to move to Sandpoint) and enjoyed that time of teaching.

As a lunch room monitor, I had many meals of varying degrees of taste. The most enjoyable were the days when the cafeteria served chili or vegetable soup. Those meals came with cinnamon rolls, donuts or donut twists. We only had these desserts on those days that had chili or veggie soup. The cooks said making the cinnamon rolls and bakery items took time but since chili and veggie soup were so easy to prepare(put into huge pots and let cook all morning, until noon) that they could spend the extra time on the bakery items.

An added joy was the fact that Kansas at that time had a statewide menu for the schools which would be printed in the newspapers, so parents knew what their kids would be eating for lunch during the month. As a teacher I found it nice to know that on chili and cinnamon day, all the kids in the entire state would be sitting down to lunch at the same time to the same delightful meal.

Ahhhh, the pleasures of youth.

ROBERT QUALLS

Sandpoint