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Yes the Helm’s truck got those tea cakes from Martino’s. At the time it was more of a comercial bakery. Then it closed and some of the employees purchased the right to the name and opened a smaller consumer bakery.

I don’t remember a bakery there. We also were not far from Peter Pan and Bogoslafsky’s, but it wasn’t their style. Does anyone remember that cake? Who sold it? I know that I could figure out how to bake it, but I...