The Parker House didn't always serve Parker House rolls

The New York Public Library has a postulation of edifice menus dating backmost to the 19th period and including menus from 3 Boston hotels, lone 1 of which inactive stands, astatine the country of School and Tremont streets.

But portion the 1858 paper from the Parker House includes specified delicacies arsenic stewed eels, mock turtle soup, mutton cutlets successful soubise condiment and nectarine crystal cream, there's nary a Parker House rotation to beryllium had.

Exactly erstwhile Parker House rolls came into being is simply a substance of immoderate dispute. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink successful America claims they came into being successful the 1870s, erstwhile an aggravated edifice pastry cook (cause of choler unknown) began flinging mounds of dough into an oven. But here's a look for Parker House rolls, famous Parker House rolls, from the Ohio Farmer from 1869 (with bonus escaped look for a wart remover):

By 1873, the rolls had spread to England. By 1879, the War Department was including a recipe successful its Manual for Army Cooks.

Today, the edifice inactive offers the rolls, on with Boston pick pie, besides invented determination (and besides not successful the 1858 menu's godforsaken section, which includes olives arsenic a mode to extremity one's meal).

H/t Barry Shein.