Senior community enjoys taste test of bakery items

Both Martha White Flour and Kay’s Bakery are well known to folks in the MidSouth. Martha Flautt, the granddaughter of Martha White, works from the kitchens of Kay’s Bakery at 667 Avon Road in Memphis. In a recent gathering and taste test, she presented her line of pastries marketed as “Martha’s Family Favorites” to delighted residents, management, and staff of Germantown Plantation Senior Living Community.

The pastries are from Martha’s family recipes, some of which date back more than 100 years.

Flautt explains, “One of the reasons the pastries are so healthy is the absence of processed sugar and the preservatives normally found in today’s processed pastries.”

Natural sweeteners approved by the American Diabetes Association, such as raw sugar or Truvia, are used to avoid the processed sugar doctors are encouraging everyone to avoid.

The offerings included cream horns, two kinds of pecan pie, an assortment of brownies, a milk cake, homemade snack bars and oatmeal cookies, flan, petits fours and éclairs.

All of the pastries offered low or no grams of sugar. Many of the items containing less than 15 grams of carbohydrates were high in fiber content.

Flautt added that in addition to the health benefits of these pastries, there is an economical benefit, since not using processed sugar or preservatives allows for more affordable products to be produced.

Martha’s Family Favorites is a local vendor for the Whole Foods Market Company, various Stepherson Superlo locations, High Point Grocery Store, Easy Way Food Stores, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and through a partnership with Fresh Healthy Vending.

Martha’s products are in area YMCAs, the Church Health Center, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Memphis University Middle School.

Paul N. Bourassa is vice president of Blue Moon Inc.