Drott's Handmade

A quick note from Drott's Handmade 🤍

I've been sick this week, so there will be no deliveries this week.

If you've already paid for an order, I'll reach out to you personally so you can choose to move it to next week or get a full refund.

Thank you for your patience and grace, and for supporting a small home bakery. I'll be back in the kitchen as soon as I'm feeling better!

I have to brag on my friend for a minute because she absolutely nailed this reformulation! Tallow is already my favorite for moisturizing, but I’m usually the person who puts lotion or tallow on and then immediately has to go wash my hands because I can’t stand that greasy feeling left behind. Not with this.

This Whipped Tallow Body Butter soaks right into my skin and leaves it feeling incredibly soft and moisturized without that heavy, greasy residue. I can actually rub it into my hands and just go on with what I’m doing — no washing them afterward!

And the Vanilla Pumpkin Marshmallow scent is SO good. It’s warm and sweet without being too much. She seriously got the texture, scent, and formula just right with this one. I absolutely love it and will definitely be getting more!

October menu is here and ordering is OPEN!

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Fall favorites are joining our regular sourdough lineup this month, along with a few new additions I’m really excited about.

This month you’ll find:

• Original, Garlic Parmesan & Oregano, and Pickled Jalapeño Cheddar & Chive sourdough

• Pumpkin Shaped Sourdough Loaves — our Original sourdough dressed up for fall

• Soft Sourdough Sandwich Bread

• Dill & White Cheddar Focaccia

• Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Chip Pecan & Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

• Honey Cornbread Cookies
• Pumpkin Chocolate Maple Cookies

• Fresh-Milled Traditional Pancake Mix
• Fresh-Milled Spelt Banana Chocolate Chip Pancake Mix

• Original Sourdough Granola with walnuts
• Dehydrated Sourdough Starter

I’m continuing to work behind the scenes on more fresh-milled recipes, so selections and quantities may change from week to week throughout October.

Friday delivery to Rusty Relics in Atoka and Mashburn Family Mercantile in Bokchito.

Quantities are limited, so preordering is the best way to make sure you get what you want.

Thank you for continuing to support my family and this little bakery. I appreciate every order more than you know!

October has five Fridays, so we’re starting the month with a smaller, pantry-style menu.

This first week gives me some extra time to work on new recipes and continue testing the fresh-milled products I hope to introduce throughout the month. Quantities will be limited, but there are still several customer favorites available:

Original Sourdough Loaves
Soft Sourdough Sandwich Loaves
Traditional Fresh-Milled Pancake Mix
Banana Chocolate Chip Spelt Pancake Mix
Original Sourdough Granola with Walnuts
Dried Sourdough Starter Packets

Our new granola is made with old-fashioned oats, sourdough starter, walnuts, vanilla, and cinnamon, then slowly baked into golden clusters.

Later in October, watch for our new fresh-milled cookie menu, including Einkorn Chocolate Chip and Pumpkin Snickerdoodle cookies.

Preorders are open now through the link in my bio. Friday delivery will be available at Rusty Relics in Atoka and Mashburn Family Mercantile in Bokchito.

So excited for her first pop-up! I’ve been using Baker Homestead Tallow’s products and have really enjoyed them. If you’re around Caddo next Saturday, stop by Caddo Heritage Day and show her some support! I know she’s been working hard getting ready for this, and I’m excited for her! 🤎

Well, y’all… Baker Homestead Tallow is headed to our very first pop up event! 🤎

Come see us at Caddo Heritage Day next Saturday, October 3rd! We’ve got some yummy market-exclusive goodies planned, plus a little front porch sippin’ to take along while you walk through town and enjoy the festivities. There’ll be grab bags and a few more surprises, too!

This is a big first for us, and your support would mean the world. I’d love to see some familiar faces, meet lots of new friends, and spend the day with y’all in Caddo. Come say hi! ☀️

It’s the LAST WEEK of our September menu!

Next week we’re rolling into a completely new October menu and kicking off all the holiday baking, but you have one more chance to grab your September favorites!

This is also Oatmeal Cream Pie Week, so all of my cookie lovers — they’re back! We only bring these out the last week of the month, and they never last long.

September favorites making their final appearance include our Pumpkin Cinnamon Swirl Sourdough, Cheesy Garlic Bread Focaccia, Pumpkin Spice Coffee Cake, and Fresh-Milled Spelt Apple Cinnamon Crumb Cake, along with all of our signature loaves, cookies and preorder favorites.

I’ve also been spending a LOT of time behind the scenes learning, testing and working with fresh-milled and heritage grains. You’ll start seeing even more of that from Drott’s Handmade — new fresh-milled baked goods, heritage-grain cookies, fresh-milled sandwich bread I’m working to perfect, and fresh-milled flour available for you to bake with at home.

There is so much I want to learn and share, and I’m excited to keep taking you along with me as this part of the bakery grows.

But first — one last week of September!

Preordering is the best way to make sure you get what you want. Ordering link is in our bio.

Friday delivery to Rusty Relics in Atoka and Mashburn Family Mercantile in Bokchito.

You guys! I cannot wait to get my hands on the fall body butter and lip gloss! I’ve already been using Baker Homestead Tallow’s products and love them, so I’m especially excited for this fall drop.

It may still be ridiculously hot outside, but give me all the fall scents so I can at least pretend it’s fall. 😂

I’ll definitely be sharing what I think once I get to try them!

Baker Homestead Tallow

I’m so excited to be part of Baker Homestead Tallow’s very first Front Porch Five!

I’ve actually already been using her products for a while and genuinely love them, so getting the opportunity to be part of this was an easy yes for me.

And now I’m impatiently waiting to get my hands on her new fall body butter because that is the one I’m especially excited to try. Once I do, I’ll be sharing all the details and letting y’all know what I think!

Thank you, Baker Homestead Tallow, for choosing Drott’s Handmade to be part of your first Front Porch Five. I’m excited for the next few months and to share some products with y’all that I already feel good about recommending.

Baker Homestead Tallow

🌿 Meet our very first Front Porch Five! 🌿

First, I want to say a huge thank you to every single person who applied. We had so many wonderful women to choose from, and narrowing it down to only five was not easy! If your name wasn’t chosen this time, your application will stay in the running when we select our next Front Porch Five in December. 🤎

Now help me welcome…

✨ Heather Drott — Atoka, Oklahoma
Owner of Drott's Handmade

✨ Alexis Ramsey — Dallas, Oregon
Creator of Pioneer Acres Homestead

✨ Courtny Howard — Coleman, Oklahoma

✨ Whitney Noel Pierce — Boswell, Oklahoma

✨ Bri Howard — Yuba, Oklahoma

These ladies will be trying Baker Homestead Tallow products and sharing their honest experiences and reviews over the next few months. Be sure to follow along and keep an eye out for their posts - you may just discover your next favorite product through one of them!

Welcome to the porch, ladies! We’re so excited to have y’all along for this adventure. 🤎🌿

One of my favorite parts of learning to bake with fresh-milled flour has been realizing just how different it is from the flour most of us grew up baking with.

A whole wheat berry contains the bran, germ and endosperm, and wheat is often credited with providing 40 of the 44 essential nutrients our bodies need. When I mill our wheat berries fresh, I'm using that entire grain — nothing sifted out.

But there’s a tradeoff I’ve been thinking a lot about lately, and I’d really like to know what YOU would choose.

Texture.

We’re used to white-flour bread being very light and fluffy with a big, open crumb. When you bake with 100% whole, fresh-milled flour, you’re working with the bran and germ too. Those are exactly the parts I want to keep, but they also make it harder to achieve the same light, airy texture you get from refined white flour.

I could sift some of that bran out.

That would help me work toward a lighter loaf with a more open crumb — but then we’re trading away some of the whole grain and the nutrients that came with it.

And that's where I'm torn.

I'm getting really close on both a fresh-milled sourdough loaf and a fresh-milled sandwich bread, and before I keep chasing the lightest loaf possible, I want to know what actually matters to the people who would eat it.

If you were buying fresh-milled bread, what would you choose?

A — Keep the whole grain.
Nutrition and flavor matter more to me. I don't mind a slightly more substantial crumb.

B — Give me the lighter loaf.
I'd rather sacrifice a little of the whole grain for a lighter, fluffier texture.

C — Somewhere in the middle.
Keep as much of the whole grain as possible, but sift a little if it makes a noticeable difference in texture.

There really isn't a wrong answer. That's what makes this fun to experiment with.

So tell me — A, B or C?

And if you've never had bread made with freshly milled flour before, you might be surprised by the flavor. Wheat isn't just “wheat.” Different varieties have their own flavor, color and baking characteristics, and that's one of the things I'm enjoying most about learning to work with them.

Pictured below 👇is a blend of heritage wheat Hard Turkey Red with the bran sifted out and 100% whole grain of Rouge De Bordeaux a rich, naturally sweet and nutty wheat flavor with deeper toasted, earthy notes.

Mashburn Family Mercantile is stocked for the weekend!

Bokchito, you have been keeping us busy, and I’m so thankful every time I see those shelves empty out. This week’s delivery includes our signature sourdough loaves and cookies, along with some of our September favorites and fresh-milled treats.

If you’ve had your eye on something, I wouldn’t wait too long. Our seasonal items are made in limited quantities each week, and once they’re gone, they’re gone until the next delivery.

I’m incredibly grateful to have Drott’s Handmade inside Mashburn Family Mercantile. They’ve created such a great little place to shop locally, and the support they show their vendors and community means so much to small businesses like mine. Be sure to look around while you’re there — there are so many locally made and unique things tucked inside.

Thank you, Bokchito, for continuing to show up for us week after week. Every loaf, cookie and treat you take home allows me to keep doing this and bringing you something new to try.