Vegan sugar? But sugar doesn’t contain animal products, does it?
“A lot of white sugar is processed with bone char to bleach it,” said Arcomano. “It’s filtered through a substance made from animal bones.”
Although Arcomano bakes a loaf of gluten-free bread for herself and her family every day, and customers often ask for bread, it hasn’t yet entered their product list. “Bread doesn’t have a long shelf life,” she said. “And it will only rise so high and then cave in.” She is experimenting with tapioca flour to make her bread spongier.
Garratt plans to try her hand at bread soon. “I’m having so much compassion for our customers,” she said. “I want to give them something yummy they can have.”
There’s a boy who comes to their home-based bakery every week to buy two brownies.
“It’s hard,” sighed Arcomano. “Sometimes all I want is a buttered roll.”
Bearsville Bakers products are sold at Sunflower Natural Foods and Sunfrost Farms in Woodstock; the Hudson V alley Farmers’ Market in Red Hook; Deising’s Bakery and Adams Fairacre Farms in Kingston; The Bakery in New Paltz; The Big Cheese, Emmanuel’s Marketplace and Davenport Farms in Stone Ridge; and their first New York City account, G-Free NYC, a gluten-free grocery store. For more information visit the Bearsville Bakers page on Facebook.
