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Hollandsche, Fransche & Weener Broodbakkerij – Weduwe E.A. Rekers – Prinsengracht & Leidsestraat – Gevelreclame – Amsterdam, NL

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Dutch, French & Viennese Bread Bakery – Widow E.A. Rekers

From the Art Nouveau Jugendstil font style, this sign can be dated from 1890 – 1910 – with my estimate towards the later end of this period. According to the Dutch site Winkelstories – Rekers, Wed. EA, bakery was founded in 1878. The building has a date of 1896 – which may be when it was renovated. Now Kwakman bakery. Prinsengracht 462 / Leidsestraat corner

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Franco-American Baking Company – West 38th Street – The Kitchen, NYC

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Normandie Bake Shop Fly-by – Nostrand Avenue – Crown Heights, Brooklyn

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In Crown Heights Brooklyn // Normandie Bake Shop flies-by // Nostrand Avenue #haiku

Normandie Bake Shop – Crown Heights – Nostrand Avenue

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Think of the creampuffs / That have passed through these same doors / All of them scrumptious #haiku

  • Eastern Parkway Memories – OLD EASTERN PARKWAY MEMORIES: Arching Trees & Fountains By: Ed Gruber – September 27, 2005 – Citynoise dot org
  • I lived at 881 Washington Ave (Carroll St) across from Botanic Gardens, Clara Barton (H.S. for Homemaking) and PS 241. What a place to grow up – deadend street to play in plus three school yards (including Prospect Hgts), the parks, the library and Bklyn Museum hill for sledding. And, you could eat your way up and down Frankin Ave: Geisers, Twin L, Ben & Sol, Normandie Bakery (charlotte russe, black & white cookies), Rae’s, Garcia Vega, Radin’s (Zsa Zsa’s favorite)…   rick: 20th Nov 2007 – 20:52 GMT

Gardner Baking Co. – Madison, Wisconsin – July 2009

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Ebinger Baking Co – Flatbush – Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

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Ebinger Baking Company, with a chain of stores across the boro, was founded in 1898 by George and Catherine Ebinger. Famous for their cakes and pies, and especially their Blackout Cake, they closed in bankruptcy on August 26, 1972.

There have been attempts to revive the bakery brand under that name, but none, so far, have been successful.

Named for wartime blackouts, their famous and beloved chocolate-pudding-filled Blackout Cake was a chocolate layer cake filled and frosted with dark fudge and dusted with chocolate cake crumbs that was so popular that other bakeries in the borough, like SeaLane, produced inferior knock-offs.

Other Ebinger favorites were a butter cream cake decorated with three small pistachio nuts in the center of the top and Chocolate hard-icing cake with a hard, bittersweet chocolate icing.

Supposedly the Ebinger family has all their original recipes under lock and key and is uninterested in releasing them, but facsimile recipes pop up once in a while. Here is a recipe for Blackout Cake from Cooks Country TV that gets very good reviews, if you’d like to try making it yourself (registration is required to see the recipe, but it’s free).

There is another version published in the Best of America’s Test Kitchen 2008 cookbook (see below for a link to it on Amazon.com).

Speaking of bakeries, another Brooklyn institution is Entenmann’s Bakery, founded by William Entenmann who came to Brooklyn from Germany in 1898. Today, the Entenmann’s brand is on over 100 different kinds of baked goods. Entenmann’s is now owned by Bimbo Bakeries USA, the American subsidiary of a gigantic Mexican/Multi-national food production corporation, which also owns brands such as Thomas’ (english muffins), Arnold (bread) and Boboli (pizza crusts). Brooklyn dot com

Other Ebinger postings on the Internet:

St Joseph Bake Shop – Chinatown, NYC

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Standard Baking – Our Lady of the Rockies – 90 Foot Statue of Mary – Butte, MT

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Our Lady of the Rockies is a colossal 90-foot statue of the Virgin Mary that overlooks the beautiful city of Butte, Montana from her lofty perch on the East Ridge of the Continental Divide. The statue itself was built as a monument to honor not only Mary, but also all women regardless of race, religion, or creed. (This goes doubly so for mothers.) She stands at an elevation of 8,510 feet above sea level, which is also approximately 3,500 feet above the elevation of Butte itself. – City Data dot com – Our Lady of the Rockies – Butte, MT

Helms Olympic Bread Building – Culver City, CA

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Helms Bakery – Wikipedia

Oxford Bakery – Liberty Ave – Ozone Park, Queens

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