Sadies Bakery, Since 1948, It’s Been Time To Make The Donuts In Houlton Maine.
Folks In Southern Aroostook County Are Spoiled With Home Made Sadie's Bakery Donuts, Cookies, Breads.
Small Mom and pop businesses, the couple that know how hard it is to make a dollar, eek out a living being shrewd business people like Sadie’s Bakery in downtown Houlton Maine.
Tim and Sharon O’Donnell for over 32 years have carried on the tradition started in 1948 in the Shiretown, County seat for Aroostook, Maine’s largest of sixteen.
A different flavored donut each day. Everyone in the area can smell the fresh donuts which are addictive, dangerous if you are on a diet. The fellow that does my taxes next door to Sadie’s says your will power increases but it was a struggle not to trot over every time Tim brings a new fresh batch in to the world. To resist loading up with a bag or two of hot, just out of the fryer, home made not cookie cutter store box donuts. He says chocolate donuts are his weakness and he tries to limit himself to one or two a week but he is in his 90′s and says maybe they extend life!
In addition to donuts, breads, squares, cookies and other baked cooks come out of Sadie’s Bakery. On Midnight Madness during the 4th of July Houlton Maine celebration, there is a line out in to the street of folks waiting for a carnival like dough boy with confectionary sugar, cinamon on them. Or italian sausages smothered in onions and green peppers and home made rolls. (Stomach grumbling…that’s mine from not enough lunch I guess).
Tim and Sharon say the donuts are no secret shared only by local folks here in Houlton Maine or across the border in to New Brunswick Canada either. They ship 8 dozen to Alaska periodically to a fellow that pays a dollar a piece just for the shipping charges thru the US Postal system’s priority mail. The donuts arrive within 48 hours from being made, packed, shipped from Houlton Maine all the way to our 49th state, just before Hawaii.
What the O’Donnell’s make can not be mass produced and it is a hand made one at a time operation. That is the secret, hard work and what makes each baked good so special, sought after. With the internet, and blog posts like this word can spread and demand increase.
But as Tim says “When we sell out, that’s it for that day”.
Simlilar to the German sandwich shop owner in Bangor Maine that retired recently after sixty odd years with a well known favorite “coffee pot” sandwich.
If the Sadie’s Bakery donuts and our local Houlton Farm’s Dairy home made butter and the Jordan or Rices red hot dogs you can not buy out of Maine that folks from this area in Florida would pay dearly for could find a way to get transported easily, someone could become a very rich man. Being just a donut, butter and hot dog merchant, food broker would be profitable. But maybe they are all special because they are unique to Houlton Maine, the way life should be. Breath deep when you drive up in to Market Square..chances are your nose will lead you to Water Street, the home of Sadie’s Bakery in Houlton Maine.
I’m Andrew Mooers, Maine REALTOR
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