Here's a request for a recipe with a great musical connection. I was speaking to my next door neighbor this afternoon, and it seems he's looking for a specific recipe for Parker House rolls. It was on the back of the box of Burrus Mills flour back when he was a boy. (He's retired now). Here's a little history of the ties between Burrus Mills and music:

From http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/characters/pappy.html
W. Lee O'Daniel served as Texas governor and United States senator. Born in 1890 in Ohio, O'Daniel came to Texas at age 29 as a sales manager for Burrus Mills, a flour-milling company in Fort Worth. In 1928, O'Daniel took over the company's radio advertising and started a country music program to promote the flour. O'Daniel hosted the show and organized a band called the Light Crust Doughboys. Many of the musicians who made Western Swing famous, including Bob Wills, got their start in O'Daniel's band. In 1935 he organized his own flour company to make "Hillbilly Flour" and began to call his band the Hillbilly Boys. The slogan, "Pass the biscuits, Pappy," made O'Daniel a household name throughout Texas.


From http://www.main.org/tfr/cg_western_swing.html
The radio also provided a venue to develop and popularize western swing. Bob Wills, a fiddle player, and Milton Brown, a vocalist, began to perform together on the radio in Dallas in 1930. Accompanied by guitar, banjo, and a second fiddle, they formed a band called The Light Crust Doughboys, named after their sponsor Burrus Mills Flour. They performed on the radio daily, doing a mixture of traditional fiddle tunes and popular jazz tunes. By 1932, the Doughboys could be heard all over the state of Texas as well as in Oklahoma, but were subject to the rigid control of Burrus Mills' manager and future Texas governor, W. "Pappy" Lee O'Daniel, Milton Brown and his brother, Derwood, left Burrus Mills in 1932 and formed what is known as the first western swing band, Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies. With the standard string band (guitar, fiddle, banjo, and bass) at its core, Brown hired jazz pianist Fred "Papa" Calhoun, a second fiddle, and finally electric steel guitar. Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies were essentially a string band, but they played hot jazz and popular songs, incorporating improvisation into the solos and singing in a popular crooning, rather than country, style. The Brownies were the first swing band to incorporate the tradition of twin fiddling into their music; that is, one fiddle playing lead and the other playing a tight harmony. Milton Brown tragically died in a car accident in 1936. Until that day, Milton Brown and the Musical Brownies were the most popular swing band in Texas. It was after Milton's death that Bob Wills became the all time king of western swing.

Bob Wills left Burrus Mills and The Light Crust Doughboys soon after Milton Brown. He formed a band much like the Brownies known as the Texas Playboys.

Burrus Mills had a distinctive box (but I don't have an image available), with this recipe on the back. But Cecil hasn't been able to get his hands on one of the old boxes to get the recipe. Even tried Ebay, he said. Closest he came was when someone used the front of an old box in some sort of shadow-box framed art.

Anyone out there maybe have the box, or have torn off and kept or copied the recipe?

SRS