Bavarian Mints my all time favorite chocolate are back on the market. They were gone for quite a few years now you can get them at Walgreens. They aren't cheap but if I only eat a few a day I can make them last. I guess I need to change my vice below to chocolate.
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My parents used to give us a box for Christmas each year. LOVE those chocolates! I can't remember what brand they were, but I can hardly walk by a box and not buy them!
If you go looking for them don't look for the box. They now come in bags with individually wrapped pieces that are a little larger than you will remember. Hey something in this world actually got larger over time not smaller.
I will have to try them. Right now, Hubby and I are fixated on Toffifay. Great! Now I'm craving chocolate!
Hey, I found your blogspot. Thanks for the e-mail connection. Now it will be a favorite! I get started on the chocolate melt-a-ways (I think that is what they are called -- come in different flavors) and it's hard to stop until the package is empty. I get them at the candy factory outlet in Ashland (or is it Greenwood) -- I love the orange chocolate! I wish you well losing weight! When I get stressed, I run to the kitchen! :) I know you have a lot of stress in your life!
God bless!!
I eat when I stress also and that is a big part of the problem. i keep hoping to reduce the stress but i don't see that happening anytime soon. When I work out I do better about the eating.
I used to buy these Bavarion Mints when I lived in Omaha, NE> I now live in Belllfower, Ca. and I can't find the any place. Please help. 4jmurty3563@ca.rr.com Put in the subject line: Bavarian Mints so I don't just delete it Please.
you can buy them at supreme chocolatier, good price too. http://www.supremechocolatier.com/ListProduct.asp?sAccountUnq=131
Patti here from Canoga Park, CA I used to buy a box for my mother every Christmas. About 5 years ago I think, I was still able to find them at Ralphs supermarkets but not anymore. They just melt and are so good. Going to check out the Supreme Chocolatier
Want to know a little more about the history of the candy? Here it is by me:
My first job out of high school in 1960 and aged 16, was at a candy factory at 25th and O Streets in Lincoln. It was called the House of Bauer.
Ray Bauer had a dream, it was called the Bavarian Mint. It was (and still is) a little cube of delicious milk chocolate with a hint of mint.
They sent a box of the candies to the White House every year and had complimentary letters from many presidents hanging in their lobby.
I started at $1.10 per hour as a cooks helper. I stirred candy with a canoe paddle in huge copper kettles all day. The old fella that had been the candy chef since inception planned a trip to visit relatives in Dallas for a week or two. He felt that I had gained enough experience in the few short months working with him, to carry on in his absence. While in Dallas, he had a heart attach and died!
That left me with the chore of making the candies for the world! He of course, left his recipes...... on 3x5 ruled cards on window sill of the candy kitchen .
Day after day, with the help of the nice little old ladies in the shop, cooked and stirred, stirred and poured candies. Ever see Willy Wonka's chocolate factory? Yep! The chocolates came in 50 lb boxes from Hershey. There was light, dark and white. Not much more to know about chocolate than that....... I would break the large cubes into smaller pieces, wheel them in a wheel barrow to the chocolate cookers. There it was melted down into and smooth chocolate and mechanically stirred for several days. Little by little, mint flavoring was added until it filled he air in the whole factory with a wonderful minty aroma. When the time came, the large kettles of candy was transported to the pouring room where it was poured on a marble slab about 30-40 feet long. As it cooled, I used a cutter that resembled a piece of farm equipment that was heated over a fire to allow a smooth cut in the huge slab of chocolate. The result was hundreds of one inch squares of the wonderfully smooth chocolate candies. From there, a thin coating of a darker chocolate was poured over them as they traveled down the conveyor belt to packaging. Each candy was handled, inspected and trimmed by hand before packaging. The detail in those days was wonderful and has been replaced by an automated process now.
While Bauer's was known for the minted candies, they have a fairly large selection of candies. I made Turtles, Bon Bon's , Old Fashioned Cream Drops, etc. etc. Nuts, nuts large and small I roasted over an open fire in a rotating basket. Molds used for producing various shapes of candies were merely shallow wooden boxes filled with corn starch.
Needless to say, at age 16, I wasn't quite up to the responsibly of the job and in less than a year, I resigned. When I went into the office to resign, Mrs Bauer told me that they really wanted me to stay and was prepared to give me a Nickel per hour raise.
After sampling the candy during all of that time in cooking it, I lost my taste for candy for several years. I do still like to make candies, but mostly fudge at Christmas time.
The mints? Well, Ray decided that he liked racing his horses more than making candy and sold his company. It resold a number of times and the last record of it that I could find lists it as being operated in White Plains, NY. A few years ago, I bought a few boxes of the minted candies at Walgreens. When I told the cashier that "I used to make these candies here in Lincoln nearly 50 years ago".....I didn't even get a blank look. Another page in history.
Rich Hoback - Lincoln, NE
Hey Rich, Thanks for sharing your story I loved it. Since posting this blog I have discovered that the original House of Bauer recipe went to the owners of Sugar Plum Candies here in Lincoln. They taste just like I remember and I still love them.
Jennifer
Wow, Bavarian mints hold this really special place in my heart. When I was little, my aunt would buy a box for us to share for special occasions. I always wanted to eat more but she didn't have much money and it was a big splurge for her. She is now 94 years old with Alzheimer's. I just miss her like crazy. I wonder if I brought her a melt away she might remember me.
You can get theses at www.supremechocolatier.com
They sell them in bulk, or in the box
Many thanks for this information! When I was 16 years old, my father quit his job managing the largest plant for Fanny Farmer, in Norwalk, Ohio, to accept a job managing the House of Bauer in Lincoln. That was in late 1969. His name was Bill Hogan. The House of Bauer had been bought by a general food company based in Kansas City, but I don't remember the name. My Dad was tasked with expanding from the O street location to a new factory that he planned and had built in the movie theater on the abandoned military base at the edge of town. My brother worked there several summers, as did I, in several parts of the factory as I filled in for people on vacation, but mostly on the packing line, picking up the oh-so-fresh pieces of candy and slipping them into the little paper cups that then went into the boxes. The women (of all ages) who worked the line always were so nice to me, but then, my Dad was very nice and respectful to them. After he retired in the 1980s, he went back a few times as a consultant, but I thought that some time later the company went out of business. So nice to know that the recipes and the name live on! I went looking for information today because last night a friend gave me a piece of candy called a "chocolate meltaway" that came from a company in Greenwood, Nebraska. Very nice flavor, but not quite the same.
Patti,
The meltaway you received from a friend is from Baker's Chocolates in Nebraska. They are really good but not the same as House of Bauer.
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