Anybody (besides you, Mom) remember Sutters Bakery, which used to be on Greenwich Avenue lo these 30 years ago? They made a wonderful pecan ring--a moist, buttery yeast-based coffee cake with lots of rich, toasted pecans. Can anyone suggest a substitute?
Every time we visited NY from So Cal, my grandmother and I would board the plane with boxes full of Sutter's cakes. Some from Ebinger's too! No matter how good the bakeries were out here, somehow they just never equalled those two.
SIGH! I grew up on 11th Street, around the block from Sutter's. We were always taken there as a treat, but all I remember ever getting was either crumb cake or cherry danishes. I loved them so much I couldn't bear to try anything else! Glad someone else remembers the place.
My husband grew up in the Bronx where there apparently also was a Sutter's. He h as the same Marcel Proust memories about the coffee ring. I love to bake and have tried to duplicate it from my own memories of it. I would love if someone could approximate those delicious coffee cakes. I'm still looing and dreaming.
Wonderful Sutter's. I grew up on 12th St and on Sunday morning got up early to run the 3 blocks to Sutters and stand in line for a fresh, hot and fragrant pecan coffee ring for my mother and me to devour along with the Sunday Times! The only rival for my heart would be Sutter's shell-shaped cookies - two melt in your mouth shells with raspberry jam between - I cannot even remember what they were called!
As a kid, I worked in Sutter's on Greenwich. I packed cookies. The cookie that you enjoyed so much was called a clam. All Sutter's cookies were entirely hand-made. I placed the raspberry filling on one half and then came back to top it with another half. The same clam shape was used with a plain dough where the narrow end was first dipped into chocolate and finished with crushed pistachios. These were known as a pistachio tip.
There was also a Sutter's on Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn. I do remember their cheese danish and pecan coffee cake. Real good. Back then it was a good bakery. Today it would considered excellent.
Flashback to Sutter's on Flatbush. Memorable was their apricot plum pie, mocha 7 layer cake, and everything else!! Of all the wonderful confections and pastries consumed over 67 years, the memory of Sutter's never leaves me.
Someone purporting to be the founder's great-grandson surfaced several years ago with the intention of recreating Sutter's after he completed college. He said that he had all of the original recipes.
http://forums.egullet.org/topic/65998...
Has anyone heard any good news?
Sutter's on Flatbush Ave was a regular morning stop for me. I'd get a croissant or pastry and eat it in my car as I drove to the office.
I moved out of Brooklyn shortly after they closed. There may have been a connection but I can't really say. Gage and Tollner also closed about that time.
I do miss my Brooklyn of old.
For NYE we had dinner at a new spot in Prospect Heights (On Air Brooklyn) I went to Prospect Park for the fireworks and then to Junior's for my first "meal" of 2017, Vanilla Egg Cream and Strawberry Cheese Pie split with my new squeeze who had never been to Brooklyn. Go figure?
We took a ride to Coney Island on New Year's Day, watched the Polar Bear plunge and enjoyed a Nathan's Hot Dog with kraut and mustard. Priceless!!
F.W.I.W. Junior's and Nathan's are still as I remember from my younger days.
Loved Sutters- went to the one in the Village in the 60's and 70's till it closed down. I remember the crossaints, mocha layer cake with apricot in between, nut cake with raspberry jam - I'll never forget the smell as soon as you walked in! There are still some great bakeries (ie Balthazar in Englewood) but the good ones are usual small with less selection - nothing compares to Sutters!
yes I was at ps 41 for awhile and we'd always go there I made butter cookie today the smell in the house reminded me of sutters
The best I've found was Eli's.
It's a little out of the way but worth a try, B& W bakery in Hackensack will bring back memories of the Pecan Ring.They are noted for their Crumb Square
HI All,
Calling from another continent - so don't feel my request is taking business away from any of the great New York/New Jersey bakeries. CAN ANYONE SEND US THE RECIPE FOR THEIR OWN "MOIST BUTTERY YEAST BAKED COFFEE CAKE" with or without pecans. We are yeast cake fanatics and can't find anything near us that can meet the standards found in NY/NJ. This would be greatly appreciated. Cheers
ON A HUNT FOR 2 BROOKLYN BAKERY'S ICONS
I, too, am looking for the recipe for SUTTER'S PECAN DANISH RING. The Danish base was such a lovely delicate affair, golden with eggs and butter, and so tender I'm wondering if the flour was a pastry flour, not AP flour.
I'm also looking for the recipe for EBINGER'S BLACKOUT CAKE. I've found several versions of the latter online, but they don't conform to my first-hand memory of that iconic confection.
My aunt Carmen would stop by those bakeries on her way home from work. I'm an accomplished baker and, though I was very young at the time, I think I can recreate those two childhood memories if I can start with a somewhat accurate recipe.
I remember sitting at Sutter's one summer evening as tear gas wafted thru the air due to something at the women's prison across the street. The best substitute I've found is Eli's, which is crispy and very nicely nutted. In a pinch, you could go for a pecan danish from Hot and Crusty; not Sutter's level, but it satisfies a craving.
Grew up in Kew Garden Hills, Queens.
My sister had a friend, a little French girl. This is in the late '50s early '60s. Her father was Jacques Amar. He had a tailor shop in the west village, near Sutters. My father being a furrier would make fur collars for some high end coats. He used to come to us with Baba au Rhum from Sutters. They would be in a paper boat half full of rum. His daughter Lucy told us they would give him stuff at the end of the day. Those and the cookies were great.
I remember Sutter's in the 30s and 40s. It was on the corner of West 12th and I think Bleeker , maybe West 4th, not sure which. And, they did make the most delectable coffee rings which I can close my eyes and still taste decades later. And huckleberry pie, petit fours and bisque tortoni. A tall Frenchmn named Louis baked there and I had such a crush on him. He always gave me some treat. I went to France years later and never found a bakery as good as Sutter's. Granted it was 1951 and not that long ater recovering from WWII. But Sutter's - ah how I loved it. My mother always bought our pumpkin pie there for Thanksgiving and my grandfather would infuriate her by saying "This is good pie, but not as nice as Horn ad Hardart's!"
Only one person seems to remember when Sutter's bakery was on Bleeker St at West 11th. Since he or she lived around the corner on W 11th, we possibly know each other and could have attended St. Veronica school together. I also lived on W 11th about 4 buildings away from Bleeker. We played stickball on Bleeker against the warehouse wall during my childhood. We also played ring alerio, buck buck whats up and true, dare or repeat with the girls. The kinish man would pass by each day. There was also an octagon shaped building which served as a bathroom across from Abington Square Park. Those were the days.
I remember the Sutter's French Bakery on Fordham Rd. in the Bronx. We never left without a visit to Sutter's after shopping at Alexander's. Sutter's had the best napoleons, pecan coffee ring ....there was nothing like sitting at a table with the kitchen in full view taking in all the wonder fragrances of the baking.
by Jen Wheeler | Need a spring vegetable guide to what's in season? Consider this your spring produce cheat sheet—complete...
by Rachel Johnson | Whether the kids are still distance learning or returning to a classroom, with school back in session...
by Kelly Magyarics | You’ve sprung for a gorgeous piece of enameled cast iron cookware; protect your investment by cleaning...
by Debbie Wolfe | Home chefs love wood cutting boards because they are durable and reliable. Wood boards are attractive...