Entringer's ability to run the network of stores and maintain quality. He frequently gave workshops for fellow members of the Deep South Bakers Association who wanted to learn how he did it. In addition to keeping control over a multiparish operation, Mr. Entringer paid attention to small details. For instance, Haydel said, he brewed his own yeast and made his own powdered sugar by having a machine pound granulated sugar to smash the molecules.
Entringer set a standard for buttermilk drops, those brown balls of dough, fried and drizzled with vanilla glaze, that were standard fare for generations at local weekend breakfasts. When they were being fried, "they had to float," said Laura Earline Zahn Entringer, his wife. Entringer also was responsible for a mainstay of that Carnival staple, the plastic king-cake baby. Entringer was approached by a Carnival krewe in the s to make king cakes with prizes inside for the maids.
He tried beans, pecans and even small china dolls before a friend found tiny, pink plastic babies in a French Quarter shop. With the health department's blessing, Mr.
Entringer added them to the cakes, and a tradition was born. Entringer didn't restrict himself to baked goods. In , he opened Chicken in a Box at Frenchmen St. Every visit to Mackenzies Bakery kindles a sense of warmth from the delightful aroma of fresh, scratch-made baked goods. Housed in the heart of downtown Vicksburg, Michigan, we're crafting an elevated retail experience that adds a modern twist to a year tradition.
Attention baked good lovers across Southwest Michigan: Mackenzies Bakery is bringing scratch-made artisanal baked goods to Vicksburg! Soon villagers and visitors alike will be able to enjoy an elevated experience in an inviting space with fresh-baked aromas that warmly greet and entice you to taste an array of treats crafted daily in the year tradition of this former Kalamazoo-based family bakery. Frederick Construction has begun renovating the interior of E. A visit here may seem a bit surreal, but it's nothing post-Katrina New Orleanians can't handle.
You enter through the shop's familiar front door — near the corner of Frenchmen Street and Gentilly Boulevard — and walk through the shell of an old McKenzie's store, where display cases and bakers racks have sat empty for years. All the action now happens far in back, where people stand and wait for take-out orders of economical, delicious fried chicken, liberally peppered and audibly crunchy. Owner Gerald EntringerJr. They hoped the chicken operation would grow as big as their bakeries, which eventually had 50 locations, but this Gentilly Chicken-in-a-Box was the only one of its kind.
That singularity saved it however. The chicken shop was never part of the bankruptcy or unsuccessful reorganizations that doomed the McKenzie's bakeries. And today, it's the last stand for one of great food names from New Orleans past.
Ian McNulty. See stories by Ian McNulty.
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