How to Start a Home Bakery of Your Own

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Do you have a prized family recipe that is absolutely mouth-watering? You may be able to make a few extra dollars off of that satisfying delicacy.

Fed up with time clocks, the rat race, and being a small cog in what increasingly seems to be an overwhelmingly large wheel? “Then,” says Jack McQuarrie, “do what we did. Learn to live on less and to supply what money you still need with little home businesses of your own. We now pick up most of the manufactured items we want from the local dump, we’ve earned nearly $100 a month during the summer picking the berries that grow wild on vacant city lots, and we’ve started our own home bakery.”

That recipe you’ve been hoarding. You know the old family favorite for — lo! — these many generations. It may be just the ticket you need to take you from the wage slavery you now hate to the economic independence you covet.

I know. Because that’s exactly what my wife, Marie, and I have used to do the same thing for us. And now, based on our experience, I feel sure that with a little imagination and some ingenuity you too should be able to convert your grandmother’s best-kept secret into a means of survival, on your own terms!

Start Wherever You Are

We founded our little home bakery right here where we were already living in Berkeley, California. On the one hand, we’ll admit that this college town — with more than its fair share of coffee shops that cater to young people with time on their hands and slight pangs in their stomachs — was a better than average community in which to launch our enterprise. On the other hand, however, it’s just as fair to point out that Berkeley is also a town with more than its fair share of students trying to pick up a few bucks by doing their “own thing”.

  • Published on Jan 1, 1976
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