Scovil Bakery, Illinois, United States
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Have you tasted the 1840s gingerbread cookies?
The Scovil Bakery is a must-see attraction when visiting historic Nauvoo, Illinois. Located at 350 North Main Street, north of Hotchkiss, it affords an opportunity for visitors to experience a baker's style before electric and gas ovens. See baking equipment of the 1840s, including a bustle oven, an open hearth and a spider pan. And before you leave, be sure to taste a gingerbread cookie made from the old 1840s recipe. The bakery, which is open daily from 10 to 6:30, annually hands out over 50,000 free gingerbread cookies. Lucius and Lury Scovil operated this bakery on the west side of Main Street immediately south of the Cultural Hall in historic Nauvoo. The business model of the bakery was to provide customers with bread, crackers, cakes, jellys and candies of all descriptions and marriage cakes made to order on the shortest notice. Lury died before Lucius left on the Mormon migration to Utah in 1846. It was during his Mormon mission in 1846 that Lucius commissioned the Twigg Potteries in Staffordshire, England, to make the famous Nauvoo Temple Plates commemorating the dedication of the original Nauvoo Temple in May of 1846. Scovil commissioned 50 dozen plates and only 14 are known to exist today. One is on display at the bakery, Another is on display at Heber C. Kimball's house in Nauvoo and 12 are houses at the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah. In the center of the plate is a depiction of the original Nauvoo Temple with the names of Brigham Young and other members of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles.
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350 North Main Street , Nauvoo, Illinois, United States, Postal Code: 62354.
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