Trenary Home Bakery

Note: The bakery is no longer open for walk-in business. Breads and toast can be bought at the Trenary Co-op a block south on Trenary Avenue.

The simple old Finnish favorite of twice-baked cinnamon toast (korpu) has been so successfully marketed and distributed by this small-town bakery that, far and wide, it's simply known as "Trenary toast." Along with pasties, it's the soul food of the U.P. Slightly sweeter than ordinary bread, it's coated with a cinnamon-sugar-spice mix and baked again, slowly. The resulting toast is wonderful for dunking in coffee. It has a shelf life of six months if kept dry in its brown bag— ideal for hunting and camping.

In the 1950s Hans and Esther Hallinen started delivering brown paper bags of toast to stores in Escanaba, Marquette, and Munising. Success led them to upgrade the bag, but customers insisted that they go back to basic brown paper. Today Trenary toast has become a quintessential U.P. regional food item. It's a staple of U.P. supermarkets, even Wal-Mart, and a sentimental favorite among those who have moved away. The Trenary Toast truck makes deliveries from the Keweenaw to the Soo. Forty downstate stores get theirs by UPS.

A 10-ounce bag (10 to 12 pieces) sells for about $3.19 suggested retail price. Mail-order sales through an 800 number (800-862-7801) are UPS'd to every state. Now there's a Treanary Toast website as well. The Trenary Home Bakery also ships two-pound loaves of a traditional Finnish "old country" rye, limpu, and a one-pound sour rye.

On M-67, three buildings east of Trenary's main four-corners. From U.S. 41, 19 miles north of Rapid River and 35 miles southeast of Marquette, go east 1/2 mile to get to Trenary. (906) 446-3330.

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