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Beechworth Bakery

Beechworth Bakery

The Beechworth bakery is the best place in Echuca to take a break from a day’s sightseeing. Everything from tea, coffee, and snacks, to entire meals are available and the setting is tremendous.

It’s difficult to miss the bakery building. It’s one of the very few three storey buildings on High street and its distinctive vintage delivery vehicle is almost always parked out in front. The red brick building was renovated when the bakery moved in over a decade ago, on of the most notable additions being the deep balcony and verandah that surround the building on three sides. The best of the views offered by the upstairs balcony are at the rear of the bakery over a sweeping bend in the Campaspe river and across to the native bushland on the opposite bank. The balcony also has the advantage of catching the afternoon breezes, but on a really hot day you might still be more comfortable in the airconditioned interior.

While the bakery is perhaps not the cheapest place in Echuca, it probably offers the best value in the historic end of town. Focaccias are around the $7 mark, breakfast pastries and sandwiches range from $2.80 to $5.50 and coffee starts at $2.80 for the bottomless filter coffee up to $4.50 for more specialized brews. There’s a wide, wide range of cakes and slices. I can personally vouch for the apple scrolls ($1.70-lots of fruit very moist), the canadian date slice ($2.95 beautifully moist, tasty and healthy), and the caramel slice ($2.95, delicious and wickedly sweet), and next time I go, I’m going to have a snickerdoodle, which appears to be a shortbread base about the size of a cupcake filled with fresh raspberries. Mmmmm!

If it’s lunch you’re after, a pre-made salad roll or one of the many of flavoured pies should sate your appetite. The pies are the Australian-style pies, about as round as a hamburger and about as high as a thick sandwich, with a range of fillings such as steak and mushroom; beef, bacon and potato; or chicken and broccoli. For the traditional pie experience, any pie containing beef should, upon removal from its brown paper bag, be liberally smothered in tomato sauce (ketchup), and consumed immediately, with a slight forward lean of the upper body to avoid the dripping of sauce on one’s clothes. (Australian children have learnt this forward lean at an early age, ever since British migrants of the early 1900s discovered the climate was unsuitable for neckties as part of school uniform. Working class children mastered the technique quickly, but students from private schools found it more difficult not to spill sauce on themselves and were forced to retain the neckties for longer, in some cases until the present day. ).

Beechworth bakery is very highly recommended.

From journal Echuca; Australia's Paddlesteamer town

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