last home delivery of the season

Cress Spring Bakery Home Delivery for April 13

Greetings,

This will be our last home delivery of the season. We will return to the outdoor market on Saturday, April 21. It's been a pleasure to bring the product of our labors to your doorsteps, and I hope to see many of you on the square. 

This will also be the last week to get truffles until November, we do not sell them at the outdoor market.

 We prefer to have truffle orders by Monday instead of Wednesday, but late orders will usually be accommodated.

The muffins available this week will be ginger spice and raspberry chocolate chip. 

If you're a fan of the potato kamut bread, you might want to stock up. We switch to rosemary kamut for a few months starting next week, usually switching sometime in August. 

I was awake this morning pondering the way we feel emotions so distinctively in physical locations - butterflies in our stomach, a pain in the neck, joy in our hearts, or a broken heart - and I was wondering if a heart ever really breaks. Generally it goes on about it's work, pumping blood to all the nooks and crannies of our existence, but is there a physical manifestation when we feel pain or joy so clearly in that vital organ? A broken heart really feels like a broken heart, but does that shattered heart truly heal itself to become stronger? Is there scar tissue? Does a heart swelling with pride or love or the beauty of this world actually get larger? In the midst of my wondering, I opened a Mary Oliver book to our poem of the week:

This World

I would like to write a poem about the world that has in it

nothing fancy.

But is seems impossible.

Whatever the subject, the morning sun

glimmers it.

The tulip feels the heat and flaps its petals open

and becomes a star. 

The ants bore into the peony bud and there is the dark

  pinprick well of sweetness.

As for the stones on the beach, forget it.

Each one could be set in gold.

So I tried with my eyes shut, but of course the birds 

  were singing. 

And the aspen trees were shaking the sweetest music

  out of their leaves.

And that was followed by, guess what, a momentous and 

  beautiful silence

as comes to all of us, in little earfuls, if we're not too 

  hurried to hear it. 

As for spiders, how the dew hangs in their webs

  even if they say nothing, or seem to say nothing.

So fancy is the world, who knows, maybe they sing.

So fancy is the world, who knows, maybe the stars sing too,

  and the ants, and the peonies, and the warm stones, 

so happy to be where they are, on the beach, instead of being 

  locked up in gold.

- Mary Oliver

Bread Varieties for April 13            Loaves are 1.5 lbs., unless otherwise noted.            Price

Vollkornbrot     Organic whole rye, water, unrefined sea salt                                                4.00

Whole Wheat     Organic whole wheat, water, unrefined sea salt.                                    4.00

Sesame Wheat    Organic whole wheat, water, organic sesame seeds, unrefined sea salt.            4.50

Caraway Rye     Organic whole wheat, organic whole rye, water, carob, caraway,                       4.50

                              unrefined sea salt              

Kamut             Organic whole kamut, water, unrefined sea salt.                               4.50

Sunny Spelt       Organic whole spelt, organic whole barley, organic whole kamut,           5.00

                                     water, organic sunflower seeds, organic flax seeds, unrefined sea salt.  

Potato Kamut   Organic whole kamut, water, organic potatoes, organic basil,                          5.00

                                  unrefined sea salt. 

Raisin          Organic whole wheat, organic whole rye, water, organic raisins,                          5.00

             organic oranges, anise, unrefined sea salt. 

Expedition      Organic whole wheat, water, organic whole rye, org. oats, org. barley,                5.00                                           

                             org. flax, org. millet, org.corn, org. buckwheat, unrefined sea salt

Rustic French    Organic unbleached wheat flour, water, organic whole wheat,                            5.00

                               organic whole rye, unrefined sea salt.                 

French Walnut   Organic unbleached wheat flour, water, organic whole wheat,                      5.50

                        organic walnuts, organic whole rye, unrefined sea salt.

Cranberry Walnut Organic unbleached wheat flour, water, organic whole wheat, organic         6.00

                                   cranberries, organic walnuts, organic rye, unrefined sea salt.

Big Country  2lbs    Organic whole wheat, organic whole rye, water, unrefined sea salt.             5.00

Big Country  4lbs.   Organic whole wheat, organic whole rye, water, unrefined sea salt              8.00

Granola    1.5 pound bags    

Raisin Walnut   Organic Oats, Maple Syrup, Organic Raisins, Organic Sunflower Oil,                 6.50

          Organic Walnuts, Organic Oranges, Vanilla, Unrefined Sea Salt                     

              

Maple Almond   Organic Oats, Maple Syrup,  Organic Butter, Organic Almonds,                         7.75

          Organic Sunflower Seeds, Organic Almond Extract, Unrefined Sea Salt 

Cranberry Almond   Organic Oats, Maple Syrup,  Organic Cranberries, Organic Butter,            9.00         

         Organic Almonds,  Organic Sunflower Seeds, Organic Almond Extract, Unrefined Sea Salt 

Sweets       

Raspberry Chocolate Chip Muffins   Organic Whole Spelt, Organic Chocolate Chips,           1.50

              Organic Raspberries, Honey, Eggs, Organic Sunflower Oil, Organic Rye, 

              Organic Corn, Organic Buckwheat, Organic Millet, Organic Oats, Baking Powder, 

              Organic Cinnamon, Baking Soda, Unrefined Sea Salt

Ginger Spice Muffins  Organic Rye, Organic Barley, Sorghum, Honey, Organic Sunflower Oil,    1.25

     Eggs, Cinnamon, Ginger, Organic Vanilla, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, Nutmeg,

     Cloves, Unrefined Sea Salt

Chocolate Fire Cookies  Organic Spelt, Organic Butter, Organic Unrefined Cane Sugar,         1.75

        Organic Chocolate Chips, Eggs, Organic Cocoa Powder, Organic Oranges, Organic 

        Cinnamon, Baking Soda, Unrefined Sea Salt, Organic Black Pepper, Organic Cayenne

  

Chocolate Chip Cookies  Organic Chocolate Chips, Organic Whole Wheat,                              1.75

               Organic Rolled Oats, Organic Butter, Organic Unrefined Cane Sugar, 

               Eggs, Organic Vanilla, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Unrefined Sea Salt,  

Gingersnaps (wheat free) Organic Barley, Organic Unrefined Cane Sugar, Organic Butter,    1.50

           Eggs, Organic Ginger, Organic Cinnamon, Baking Soda, Cloves

Trail Cookies (no dairy or eggs)  Organic Whole Wheat, Maple Syrup, Organic Raisins,        1.50

   Organic Chocolate Chips, Organic Oats, Organic Peanut Butter, Organic Sunflower Oil, 

   Organic Sunflower Seeds, Sorghum, Organic Peanuts, Organic Walnuts, Organic Vanilla, 

   Baking Soda, Unrefined Sea Salt

Raisin Walnut Scones Organic Whole Spelt, Milk, Organic Butter, Organic                                 2.00

            Raisins,Organic Unrefined Cane Sugar, Organic Walnuts, Baking Powder, 

           Unrefined Sea Salt, 

Chocolate Chip Scones  Organic Whole Wheat , Organic Unbleached Wheat Flour,                   2.00

           Milk, Organic Chocolate Chips, Organic Butter, Organic Unrefined 

          Cane Sugar, Baking Powder, Organic Vanilla, Unrefined Sea Salt, 

Dark Chocolate Truffles:  Chocolate (Chocolate Liquor,  Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Vanilla), Organic Cream, Organic Butter 

           Box of 6 - $9.50           Box of 10 - $15.00             Box of 24 - $36.00

Our truffles will last for several weeks if refrigerated, although for optimum flavor they should be eaten warm. We prefer to have truffle orders by Monday instead of Wednesday, but late orders will usually be accommodated. 

Orders may be placed by phone or email, and must be in on Wednesday  for Friday delivery. We will usually accommodate  late orders, but there is a $2 fee for all orders coming in after Wednesday.

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Order Total    Under $6.00       $6.00 to $8.00        Over $8.00

Delivery Charge   $1.00                    50¢                no charge

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bakery vacation

There will be no delivery this week, and we will not be at the market on Saturday. 

We will be back for two more weeks of delivery on April 6 and 13, and then we return to the outdoor market on Saturday, April 21. 

But you do all get a poem of the week, appropriate for March Madness and my own obsession with my favorite game: 

For Brothers Everywhere

There is a schoolyard that runs

from here to the dark’s fence

where brothers keep goin to the hoop, keep

risin up with baske’balls ripe as pumpkins

toward rims hung like piñatas, pinned

like thunderclouds to the sky’s wide chest

an’ everybody is spinnin an’ bankin

off the glass, finger-rollin off the boards

with the same soft touch

you’d give the head of a child, a child

witta big-ass pumpkin head, who stands

in the schoolyard lit by brothers givin and

goin, flashin off the pivit, dealin

behind their backs, between their legs,

cockin the rock an’ glidin like mad hawks—

swoopin black, with arms for wings—

palmin the sun an’ throwin it down,

an’ even with the day gone, without even

a crumb of light from the city, brothers

keep runnin-gunnin, fallin away takin

fall-away jumpers from the corner,

their bodies like muscular saxophones

body-boppin better than jazz, beyond

summer, beyond weather, beyond

everything that moves, an’ with one shake

they’re pullin-up from the perimeter,

shakin-bakin brothers be sweet

pullin-up from the edge of the world,

hangin like air itself hangs in the air,

an’ gravidy gotta giv’em up:

the ball burning like a fruit with a soul

in the velvet hands while the wrists whisper

"back-spin" an’ the fingers comb the rock

once—lettin go, lettin it go like good news—

’cuz the hoop is a well, Shwip! a well

with no bottom, Shwick!

an’ they’re fillin that sucker up.

- Tim Seibles

Cress Spring Bakery Home Delivery for March 9

Greetings,

I had a blast driving around in the snow on Friday. The decrease in traction adds excitement and a feeling of spaciousness. Coming to a stop requires advance planning. And with paddling season right around the corner, I like to think that the snow that's now floating my truck will soon be floating my boat. 

There will be no home delivery on Friday, March 31, and we will not be at the market that week. 

We are offering a new rye bread this week, Vollkornbrot. This is a German rye bread that we used to make many years ago when we were first starting out, and it's time to bring it back. It's an all-rye bread, similar in flavor to the swiss rye, but we will be baking it in pans, so it will be rectangular in shape and easier to slice, with a thinner crust than the swiss rye. 

The muffins available this week will be carrot raisin and raspberry chocolate chip. 

The truffle varieties available this week are: 

Dark Chocolate

Peppermint

You may order boxes of either variety, or mixed boxes. Our truffles will last for several weeks if refrigerated, although for optimum flavor they should be eaten warm. We prefer to have truffle orders by Monday instead of Wednesday, but late orders will usually be accommodated.

     

           Box of 6 - $9.50           Box of 10 - $15.00             Box of 24 - $36.00

Our poem of the week:

Roll the Dice

if you’re going to try, go all the

way.

otherwise, don’t even start.

if you’re going to try, go all the

way.

this could mean losing girlfriends,

wives, relatives, jobs and

maybe your mind.

go all the way.

it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.

it could mean freezing on a

park bench.

it could mean jail,

it could mean derision,

mockery,

isolation.

Isolation is the gift,

all the others are a test of your

endurance, of

how much you really want to

do it.

And you’ll do it

despite rejection and the worst odds

and it will be better than

anything else

you can imagine.

If you’re going to try,

go all the way.

There is no other feeling like

that.

You will be alone with the gods

and the nights will flame with

fire.

do it, do it, do it.

do it.

all the way

all the way.

you will ride life straight to

perfect laughter, it's

the only good fight

there is.

- Charles Bukowski

Bread Varieties for March 9        Loaves are 1.5 lbs., unless otherwise noted.            Price

Vollkornbrot     Organic whole rye, water, unrefined sea salt                                                4.00

Whole Wheat     Organic whole wheat, water, unrefined sea salt.                                    4.00

Sesame Wheat    Organic whole wheat, water, organic sesame seeds, unrefined sea salt.            4.50

Caraway Rye     Organic whole wheat, organic whole rye, water, carob, caraway,                       4.50

                              unrefined sea salt              

Kamut             Organic whole kamut, water, unrefined sea salt.                               4.50

Sunny Spelt       Organic whole spelt, organic whole barley, organic whole kamut,           5.00

                                     water, organic sunflower seeds, organic flax seeds, unrefined sea salt.  

Potato Kamut   Organic whole kamut, water, organic potatoes, organic basil,                          5.00

                                  unrefined sea salt. 

Raisin          Organic whole wheat, organic whole rye, water, organic raisins,                          5.00

             organic oranges, anise, unrefined sea salt. 

Expedition      Organic whole wheat, water, organic whole rye, org. oats, org. barley,                5.00                                           

                             org. flax, org. millet, org.corn, org. buckwheat, unrefined sea salt

Rustic French    Organic unbleached wheat flour, water, organic whole wheat,                            5.00

                               organic whole rye, unrefined sea salt.                 

French Walnut   Organic unbleached wheat flour, water, organic whole wheat,                      5.50

                        organic walnuts, organic whole rye, unrefined sea salt.

Cranberry Walnut Organic unbleached wheat flour, water, organic whole wheat, organic         6.00

                                   cranberries, organic walnuts, organic rye, unrefined sea salt.

Big Country  2lbs    Organic whole wheat, organic whole rye, water, unrefined sea salt.             5.00

Big Country  4lbs.   Organic whole wheat, organic whole rye, water, unrefined sea salt              8.00

Granola    1.5 pound bags    

Raisin Walnut   Organic Oats, Maple Syrup, Organic Raisins, Organic Sunflower Oil,                 6.50

          Organic Walnuts, Organic Oranges, Vanilla, Unrefined Sea Salt                     

              

Maple Almond   Organic Oats, Maple Syrup,  Organic Butter, Organic Almonds,                         7.75

          Organic Sunflower Seeds, Organic Almond Extract, Unrefined Sea Salt 

Cranberry Almond   Organic Oats, Maple Syrup,  Organic Cranberries, Organic Butter,            9.00         

         Organic Almonds,  Organic Sunflower Seeds, Organic Almond Extract, Unrefined Sea Salt 

Sweets       

Raspberry Chocolate Chip Muffins   Organic Whole Spelt, Organic Chocolate Chips,           1.50

              Organic Raspberries, Honey, Eggs, Organic Sunflower Oil, Organic Rye, 

              Organic Corn, Organic Buckwheat, Organic Millet, Organic Oats, Baking Powder, 

              Organic Cinnamon, Baking Soda, Unrefined Sea Salt

Carrot Raisin Muffins: Organic Whole Spelt, Organic Carrots, Honey, Organic Yogurt,           1.50

          Organic Raisins, Eggs, Organic Sunflower Oil, Organic Walnuts, Baking Powder, 

          Organic Cinnamon, Organic Vanilla, Baking Soda, Organic Nutmeg, Unrefined Sea Salt

Chocolate Fire Cookies  Organic Spelt, Organic Butter, Organic Unrefined Cane Sugar,         1.75

        Organic Chocolate Chips, Eggs, Organic Cocoa Powder, Organic Oranges, Organic 

        Cinnamon, Baking Soda, Unrefined Sea Salt, Organic Black Pepper, Organic Cayenne

  

Chocolate Chip Cookies  Organic Chocolate Chips, Organic Whole Wheat,                              1.75

               Organic Rolled Oats, Organic Butter, Organic Unrefined Cane Sugar, 

               Eggs, Organic Vanilla, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Unrefined Sea Salt,  

Gingersnaps (wheat free) Organic Barley, Organic Unrefined Cane Sugar, Organic Butter,    1.50

           Eggs, Organic Ginger, Organic Cinnamon, Baking Soda, Cloves

Trail Cookies (no dairy or eggs)  Organic Whole Wheat, Maple Syrup, Organic Raisins,        1.50

   Organic Chocolate Chips, Organic Oats, Organic Peanut Butter, Organic Sunflower Oil, 

   Organic Sunflower Seeds, Sorghum, Organic Peanuts, Organic Walnuts, Organic Vanilla, 

   Baking Soda, Unrefined Sea Salt

Raisin Walnut Scones Organic Whole Spelt, Milk, Organic Butter, Organic                                 2.00

            Raisins,Organic Unrefined Cane Sugar, Organic Walnuts, Baking Powder, 

           Unrefined Sea Salt, 

Chocolate Chip Scones  Organic Whole Wheat , Organic Unbleached Wheat Flour,                   2.00

           Milk, Organic Chocolate Chips, Organic Butter, Organic Unrefined 

          Cane Sugar, Baking Powder, Organic Vanilla, Unrefined Sea Salt, 

Dark Chocolate Truffles:  Chocolate (Chocolate Liquor,  Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Vanilla), Organic Cream, Organic Butter  

Peppermint Truffles:  Chocolate (Chocolate Liquor,  Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Vanilla), Organic Cream, Organic Butter Organic Peppermint Extract

           Box of 6 - $9.50           Box of 10 - $15.00             Box of 24 - $36.00