Baking bread is therapeutic: it takes your idle mind to work creatively and brings you that much needed comfort especially when the aroma of fresh bread wafts thru the the air..heaven pare. And Like my never ending bucket list, how I wish I have the time to bake everything I fancy! I can already imagine myself kneading the flour and baking wonderful breads like the ones sold by Gng. Bukid at the Salcedo Market (you should try her Chala bread) but then, that's another story ;)
I buy my bread (10 grain) from Gng. Bukid. They are famous for their Challah bread, Maja Blanca and Pandesitos. He is at the Salcedo Market every Saturday.
The lure of Sidcor is being able to buy specialties that come from the provinces and those from people who just love to cook. There’s Gng. Bukid, said to be Filipino for Mrs. Fields but who is represented by Ginoong Bukid (the mister) who can expound about the products they sell and is amused that there are ladies “of a certain age” who wait for him at the parking lot just to make sure they have first crack at the breads (the challah is fantastic) and pastries.
Gng. Bukid was a home-based activity until we began our first retail operation in May 2004 as one of the handful pioneers of what is now famously known as Salcedo Village Saturday Market.
We started out with a mix of our home-made native specialties like Best Maja Blanca and Leche Flan, our baked items like our famous Chocolate Mousse Cake, Fudge Cake, loaves, and cookies, and our very own farm-produced Genuine Ilocano's pure Sukang Iloco.
From there, we have also successfully marketed our products at Quezon City's leading bazaar, the Centris Sidcor Sunday Market. We directly sell to food outlets and companies but we also count on a small army of entrepreneurs who sell to institutions like hospitals, call centers and business establishments. Our bakery is just outside San Lorenzo Village and is open to buyers from this village and other neighboring villages as well as a number of office workers from the establishments of Makati.