Amish bakery a suite for senses
The oven that's baking the chocolate cookies needs a little more heat. So Miller opens its side door and throws in a few pieces of kindling.
Nearby, two Amish women sit with bowls of cookie dough, taking the mixture in their hands and rolling small balls that are lined up carefully on baking trays awaiting the oven.
Tins of homemade rolls cool on racks not far from the stove, while loaves of freshly baked bread are creating a small bit of condensation in the bags they have recently been wrapped in.
The sights and smells inside Ben's Country Store & Bakery are music to one's senses.
Miller moved to the Cadott area in April and recently opened the bakery on the new family homestead about 4 miles north of town on Hwy. 27.
A furniture maker for the Woodshed in Augusta, Wis., by trade, Miller built a new wood shop that is pretty modern for a facility not employing electricity.
'We always had a store in mind,' said Miller, who once operated a bakery and bulk food store years ago when he lived outside Chariton, Iowa.
'Back then we'd bake and take our goods out on the road,' he said." . . .
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