Dough frame
OwnerIda N. Lauterinventor
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Abstract
A dough frame comprising in combination a discoid bottom plate; a first member removable thin sheet of plastic material sufficient in size to be mounted smoothly over and folded under said discoid plate; an annular rim element, having a rim height greater than the thickness of said discoid plate, the latter covered by said first member plastic sheet, and said rim element having a diameter adjusting means and supporting means cooperates with the said discoid plate covered with said first member plastic sheet to form a cavity or mold for accepting a pie dough mixture; a second member thin sheet of plastic material sufficient in size to enclose said dough within said cavity and to provide an interface between the said dough and a rolling pin and between the upper edges of the said rim element surrounding the said dough and a rolling pin.
Claims2
A dough frame in which dough, such as pie dough or the like, may be readily rolled to a predetermined uniform thickness and size, removed from the dough frame, and placed in a pie pan, said dough frame comprising an outer annular rim and a disc-like plate removably fitted within said rim, said rim having a shoulder on its inner face for engagement with the bottom face of said plate and an upper portion of said rim extending above the upper face of said plate when the latter is supported on said shoulder thereby to define a mold cavity in which said dough is to be formed, the upper edge of said rim constituting a reference surface over which a rolling pin or the like may be operated to form the dough to the shape of said cavity, a first sheet of non sticky plastic film or the like overlying the upper face of said plate and extending to be interposed between the outer circumferential face of said plate and the inner circumferential face of said rim, said upper portion of said rim extending above said film to be engaged by the dough being molded, said rim having means for adjustably tightening said rim on said plate and on said first sheet interposed therebetween thereby to securely clamp said plate and said first sheet relative to said rim and to hold said first sheet in place on the upper face of said plate as said dough is being formed in said cavity and for loosening said rim thereby to release said plate and said first sheet from said rim and to permit removal of said plate and said first sheet along with the formed dough from said rim, and a second sheet of plastic overlying said cavity and said upper edge of said rim whereby said rolling pin may be rolled on said reference surface with said second sheet disposed between said rolling pin and said dough thereby to prevent the dough from sticking to the rolling pin.
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