Lots of York County Bakeries
Bakery ad from 1916 York Hospital Auxiliary Cookbook
We tend to romanticize “the good old days” when Mom, or Grandma, or Great-grandma, lovingly baked wonderful breads and cakes, all from scratch. If those fine ladies were doing all the baking, why then are there so many ads for local bakeries in the recently reprinted 1916 York Hospital Auxiliary Cookbook? At least 11 bakeries from all over the county took out ads in the cookbook, and I sure that they were only a sampling of the York County bakeries of the time.
These bakeries turned out a variety of products, mostly familiar, but some not. A friend asked what “sugar pretzels” were. There were listed in a Minnich Bakery ad in a previous post. Maybe sweet rolls twisted like a pretzel? Several of the bakeries list pretzels among their wares. I guessing that they might be soft pretzels, because there were commercial pretzel bakers, who probably turned out hard pretzels, operating at the time.
At least two of the bakeries were “steam bakeries.” According to internet search results, that seems to refer to the method used to heat the ovens with tubes containing very hot steam. It sounds similar to steam heat in your home, only hotter.
See below for bakery ads from around York County:
Lonergan’s Vienna Steam Bakery
245-47 South George Street, York, Penna.
Your inquiries for anything in our line will receive prompt and careful attention. All phone connections. Ornamental cakes a specialty. Always open to visitors.
PATRICK LONERGAN, Prop.
PEELING’S BAKERY
BREAD, ROLLS, and CAKES
Charles D. Peeling, Prop. No. 113 No. Queen Street
EAT PEELING’S “JERSEY CREAM” BREAD
HERSHEY BAKING CO.
YORK, PA.
JOY AND GLADNESS
From the moment the loaves come from an oven, a beautiful golden brown, until their tasty slices find their place on your table, our bread is handled with the utmost care. It is “a thing of beauty and a joy forever.” Every bit of “Mother’s” and Pan Dandy Bread means gladness to the mouth and health to the body.
DOVER BAKERY
J. W. POMRANING, Prop.
BREAD, CAKES, ROLLS, PRETZELS, ETC.
DOVER, PA.
Dallastown Bakery
Charles E. Stabley
Give Us a Trial
BREAD, CAKES, ROLLS, PRETZELS, ETC., ETC.
DALLSTOWN, PA.
THE ROYAL BAKERY
G. W. MUSSER, Proprietor
Bread, Cakes, Pretzels, Fancy Cakes, Etc.
YOE, PA.
Quaker Bread, Mother’s Bread, Workingman’s Bread, Butter Bread
PEOPLE’S BAKING COMPANY
“THE BREAD WITH THAT HOME-MADE FLAVOR.”
The Largest Bread and Cake Bakers in York County (York City Excepted)
19 Different Kinds
NEW FREEDOM, PA.
EMPORIUM BAKERY
G.H. REICHARD, Prop.
BREAD, CAKES, ROLLS, ETC.
Always Ask for Reichard’s Hand Made Pretzels
RED LION, PA.
York Phone
Hallam Bakery
HERMAN PLATH, Prop.
Bread, Cakes, Rolls, Pretzels, Etc.
HALLAM, PA.
Click here for 1856 York bakery ads.
