There is very little that pleases me as much as a bakery. I love all cakes and pastries. When I was growing up in suburban New Jersey, we had a bakery right in my town that I would visit each week on my way to choir practice. Once inside it's fragrant room, I would slowly peruse the racks, admiring the chocolate boxes, the eclairs, the tollhouse cookies, the crumb buns.... whatever delicacy that caught my eye that day, I was able to purchase and eat.
Um, Martha, you ask? Where was all this money coming from? I have really no idea. Allowance? Birthday savings? And where were my parents while I was making these face-stuffing, fatty purchases? I haven't any clue because I've blocked out all the details except the pastries. (okay, I can answer that last question - it was the 1980's and kids walked places by themselves and my parents have a healthy appreciation for a bakery, themselves.)
Oh, how I love a bakery!
Oh, how I love a pastry!
Oh, how I miss them both!
It's a completely different experience going into a Bakery, now that I am lactose intolerant. Bakeries - once a source of such joy and pleasure - are now evil torture chambers from Hell. I'm okay with small amounts of butter, so I can have a puff pastry item or a pie, but my beloved butter cream frosted cakes, chocolate boxes, napoleons and eclairs are completely out of the picture.
There is nothing so depressing as a fruit pie when there are chocolate mousse cakes being offered. Especially once you realize that you can't eat said fruit pie with a generous dollop of whipped cream on top.
Lactose Intolerance - you really take all the fun out of eating!
I have learned to compensate for my body's bakery ban. I make cakes at home and I choose recipes without milk or heavy cream. I make my own butter cream frosting using Lactaid milk, but it's not the same as buying a beautiful cake from the bakery and eating a thick wedge for dessert (or dinner, if we are really being honest).
So I ask you, if you live in Massachusetts and are looking to start a business.... would you consider opening a lactose-free bakery? You would be guaranteed at least one, very loyal customer!
2 comments:
is there by any chance a kosher bakery near you? milk and meat can't be eaten in the same meal due to dietry laws which means these places sell a lot parve (neither meat or dairy) deserts
Hello, Beth -
Sadly, there aren't any kosher bakeries close to me. there are a few in my old town about a half-hour away and I do stop by when I find myself back in the old neighborhood.
Kosher bakeries are a great haven for the lactose-intolerant.
Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving a comment.
-martha
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