<p>Great advice, everyone - thank you. Beerme (great nic) and Emerald, she has a bread machine, this is primarily for baking traditional poppy-seed roll which requires dough that rises, no way would she mess with a 130-year old recipe for the sake of convenience 
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<p>Roshke, I think she’d use it - she mentioned she could use a mixer with a dough blade - she bakes a lot in one fell swoop, then freezes, so something that can handle a lot of dough at once would be ideal. </p>
<p>I’m also concerned about the weight – I suppose like most of you she’d simply keep it on the counter – but the height might be an issue too… hmmm. </p>
<p>Bunsen, thanks for the rubber mallet tip - mom is a bit of a character, and she’d be ALL ABOUT that mallet :)</p>