With the days of baking in an authentic brick oven using hot coals in the not so distant past, the influence of yesteryear’s methods and recipes still linger in the minds of our younger, modern day bakers. After all, most of the people working these small bake shops learned from the parents and grandparents.

The result?

Shoofly pies, whoopie pies, homemade bread and soft pretzels baked fresh daily and reminiscent of a time when life was not so complicated, but good food was.