In those days lots of things were sold from the privacy of your front porch milk and other dairy products, baked goods, fruit and vegetables, vacuum cleaners, awnings, carpet, aluminum siding, even life insurance.

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Cherries are made for that wonderfully simple French dessert, a batter poured over fruit and baked to custardy perfection.

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Healthy snacks such as baked chips, low-fat crackers and fruit snacks are in the vending machines.

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Its fresh store-baked breads and wide salad and sandwich selection, plus fruit dishes, give this outlet panache.

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Using Victorian machinery means the flour produced has to be wholemeal (to make brown or white, for example, would involve sifting out the bran, a process beyond traditional watermill technology), which goes into such products as the home-baked bara brith, a Welsh fruitcake made with dried fruit soaked in tea.

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The cobbler however, which to be clear, is a dish in which a fruit filling is topped with spoonfuls of a loose scone-like or biscuit topping and baked so that the top resembles golden cobblestones, was born right here on American shores.

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Earlier this week, it introduced milk and fruit cup options for its Kids' Meal and is testing combo meals that offer chili, baked potatoes or a side salad instead of French fries, and "carb counter" meals.

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