Rita’s Swiss Braided Bread an Emporium Hit
Tom and Sue Maurer (Tom’s the Emporium’s manager) stopped at a country store in Ontario, Canda, on vacation this month. They were stocking up to spend a couple of days at a fishing camp and got talking to the proprietor, Rita Stoller. She and her husband, Walter, came to Canada from Switzerland 30 years ago because they wanted more land. It wasn’t too long before the Maurers discovered that Rita bakes great Swiss braided bread. After enjoying her bread, they came back and asked for the recipe. “Well, it’s in my head,” Rita said. But she provided the recipe, half in metric, half in English. Last week Sue baked some of Rita’s bread, and it made its debut at the Emporium. It’s great! Sue and Tom expect to keep providing it. Tom told the story of a customer up in Canada who bought a half loaf of Rita’s bread, hoping that her husband, not a bread-eater, would like it. She came back in an hour asking for the rest of the loaf. Her husband had eaten the first half already!
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