KORB'S BAKERYKorb's was a Rhode Island landmark that opened in the 40's.
Had several locations
including it's main store on Pawtucket Avenue, Pawtucket
and also a small store located in the Outlet Company,
Downtown Providence.
Korb's had a whole host of specialties:
Meltaways, Hermits, Huge Chocolate Chip Cookies,
and their famous Scones & Cheese Danish.
Sadly Korb's closed several years back
- but is still missed by many Rhode Islander's.
This is just a retro blog - I have no connection to Korb's Bakery
and I do not have any recipes. Sorry!
i will never forget how good korb's cookies were
ReplyDeleteDo you have their chocolate marble cookie recipe. Would you share?
DeleteI remember going there many a weekend morning with my dad to get donuts and danish... the cookies were awesome as were the cakes.... and they made good bread too. We lived down the street from the Pawtucket Ave. location... which was right next to another great memory of mine... Millers Delicatessen....they made the best sandwiches there!!!
ReplyDeleteI have the fondest memories of the jelly donuts with the whipped cream inside. My dad got them for us and they were the best!
ReplyDeleteOf all the happy memories I have as a child, Korb's is by far the happiest - the best birthday cakes, chocolate chip cookies, ANYTHING - if it had that pudgy chef (in blue ink) on the box with the words Korb's! It was a guaranteed treat!
ReplyDeleteForgot about the chef. Miss Korbs. They had the best breads. Sad it closed.
DeleteWe would go get hot dogs from the neato hot dog roller in the Sear's on North Main ST and then head down to Korb's for the huge chocolate chip cookies.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad took me to Sear's on North Main St all the time, he would look at the tools and I would get a hot dog at the tiny consession stand. I also remember Korb's, loved there Jewish seeded rye bread, toasted.
DeleteAhhhhh, Korb's....
ReplyDeleteEveryone loved the platter sized chocolate chip cookies.
I loved the Russian Tea Cakes.
The box with the blue ink baker on top, tied with string.
But the meaning of life is tied with that string to Korb's Rye Bread, which was "Sissel Bread". We had it. No one else outside RI knows about it, and if they did it from someone who lived in RI.
Trivia question - Go to a culinary arts school and say "what kind of bread have bakery instructors never heard of, that used to be so common and loved, and yet which commercial bakers no longer make because it's so much work to do right???"
Sissel Bread ........
Does anyone out there have the recipe for Korb's Christmas cookies, they were shaped like a tree?
ReplyDeleteoff the top of my head but theres a market next to domino's pizza post road in warwick that acquired some of the recipes from korbs bakery including the their chocolate chip cookie recipe they did have minor changes due to the lack of one ingredient..
ReplyDeleteI have ALL the recipes for the entire Korb Baking Co product line.
ReplyDeleteDO YOU HAVE THE RECIPE FOR THEIR CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES?
DeletePlease print the rye bread recipe! I love it.
DeleteWould you be willing to share the chocolate chip cookie recipe?
DeletePlease let us know how to make the chocolate chip cookies!!Will you please share.
DeleteI absolutely loved their big marble cookies. I would love to have that recipe.
DeleteWould you share the chocolate chip cookie recipe & the Butter horns?
Deletecan you share there cake recipe with the lemon filling?
DeleteOh my Gosh!! Do you have the rainbow cake bars with strawberry frosting recipe? If so my email is jimfoots@charter.net
DeleteI heard the rye and pumpernickel bread recipes were really under lock and key.
DeleteI would also love the Russian Tea Cake recipe!
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Deletechocolate chip cookie recipe, please!! kdes7@aol.com. I
DeleteJust the yellow cake and white cake and frosting recipes please gwendolynabeckles@gmail.com
DeleteI know this is an old original post, if you have all the recipes, you should have started your own bakery. All of us miss Korb's. If not, maybe you can put lush a recipe book
DeleteCan you share?
DeleteLooking for the recipe for their Jewish Rye Bread with Caraway seeds.
DeleteRecipe for their frosting on their white lemon filled cakes
DeleteDo you still have them? I know you posted this 11 years ago but a girl can dream! Also looking for a picture of their Chocolate Creme Cake! Thanks!
DeleteSome of my greatest times. Worked there throughout High School and College,, fun times, taking some warm rye bread out of over going next door to Millers Deli and making a ham and cheese sandwich....delivering the wedding cakes was always an adventure..
ReplyDeleteI left RI for California many years ago, now that i am coming back for my mother's 88 birthday wanted to get a full sheet cake, one of her favorites! I remember getting her cakes from there 30 years ago when mom was in her 50's. So many good memories of mom associated with Korbs cakes. :-(
ReplyDeleteThe best after school job in Pawtucket was working at Korbs. What a great friendly, fun atmosphere. Mr Korb was very approachable and down to earth. And the counter help - who could forget Lester, Henny, Benny, Rose, and all the cute high school girls. Started after school scraping floors, greasing pans, making boxes and keeping the front of the store stocked with bread, rolls, etc. Ended up delivering on the Darlington route, and sometimes wedding cakes in one of the two Ford LTD station wagons. But the best was being able to sample any and all of the warm, just out of the oven goodies. I really miss the place, the pastry, and most of all the people. I was there in the heyday of the early to late 70's.
ReplyDeleteI miss Korbs too. I heard the kids did not want any part of continuing the biz.
DeleteI remember working there as well, first job. The girl who trained me was not nice, only worked there one day. awh the memories
DeleteCan just tatse the melt always! The best, anyone have an idea where I can get them these days or anyone have the receipe? Great memories when my dad would take me for the ride& get lox next door & the unforgtable meltaways + check a board whipped creamcake... Thanks dad & thanks to the korbs family.
ReplyDeleteSISSEL Bread can be purchased at Rainbow Bakery, 800 Reservoir Ave., Cranston.
ReplyDeleteLoved & miss Miller's Deli.
A most unique fresh rye and pumpernickel bread. The best never to be duplicated. Their cakes were good too.
ReplyDeleteHey my sister n I have a bet...maybe u all can help... their cakes, with lemon filled in the layers...was it just one layer of lemon or 3 layers..? I remember small layer, lemon, layer, thick lemon, another layer n the lemon and top layer and buttercream frosting...
ReplyDeleteThree layers of Lemon Curd in four layers of that delicious yellow cake !!!
DeleteMoved away from Attleboro back in 1986, and have missed those birthday cakes ever since.
Would love the recipe for the cake. If you want to email. denfredette@yahoo.com
DeleteEvery occasion from birthdays to weddings was celebrated with a Korb's cake in our family for 35 years or so. So sad the're gone :(
ReplyDeleteMy hubby "Al, the Baker" worked there till the day they closed, ed fields from autocrat family bought it and ran it right into the ground.....
ReplyDeleteIf you don't wish to publish the recipe here, my email address is briandangelo73@gmail.com
DeleteThank you!!
If anonymous has all the recipes from Korbs, why not share them here ? Or better yet, compile a small cookbook for publication with all the recipes. Check out www.portugueserecipes1.com
DeleteI live In Florida now, but would always stop at the bakery before taking the bus home to Coventry - I was first year at the old CCRI bldg. on promenade st. I would love the recipe to the chocolate nut cookies they made. pvdguy1@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteKorb's was the best. If someone does have the recipes, I would buy a booklet with all those recipes.
ReplyDeleteI remember Korb's in the 50's when it was on North Main St in Providence. It is one of my fondest memories. We lived on the East Side on Howell St. The sugar cookies were the best. If your receipt had a red star on it you would be given a free 8" 🎂. ☺.
ReplyDeleteWe all loved the jelly donuts and the cake filling, just the best. When they moved to Pawtucket we would still go. . Memories of childhood. The smell of the bread baking!
The hermits! How I wish I had the recipe and the pumpernickel bread, such a fun place to go after skating on the pond. And the cookies, and stuffies! legendary! so nice to grow up there :)
ReplyDeleteMe too! The Hermits and the pumpernickel bread were the best! And, going there with Daddy was the frosting on the cake. I wonder if any of those high school kids learned the recipes? Betsy, tell us the secrets! PLEASE... :)
DeleteI would really like the recipe for their cake frosting. I have yet to go to a bakery and get that same taste.
ReplyDeleteIf your husband knows the recipe for lemon filling frosting for bday cake I would be sooooooo thankful if he could email me. My dad grew up on blood good st ( Tetznet) my mom in CF (aunchman) we were always in there. Every Sunday dinner party function but especially birthdays!! My memere Noella died a few years ago at 97 and my mom sue best friend til the day she passed. If I could make my mom a cake on my grandmothers bday next month it would mean the world to her and me!! Thanks. Christenconley1@yahoo.com
ReplyDeletemy Grandparents were "family " "friends" with the Korbs back in the day My Grandfather has past 11 years and grandmother 7 now and I was thinking about the cookies how they were bigger than my face and such a good treat when we were growing up. Miss those days.
ReplyDeleteMiss those cookies Miss you gramma & pop-pop
I worked there back in High School. I remember working on Sunday mornings and I would take the still warm items from the cooking sheets and put them on the store trays...one on the store tray...one in my mouth!yum!,etc. I remember one day Mr.Korb asking me, Paul Cabral and Paul Senra to throw away some old muffins and us 3 ding-dongs decided to throw them around the parking lot. It was all shits and giggles when we were doing it BUT, when we were done and we saw the mess we made, we were scared shit, thought Mr. Korb would fire us when he saw BUT, the birds can and cleaned up are mess. They really had some great items-The best seeded rye, meltaways and hermit cookies and warm rugula (strudel) man I'm getting hunger just typing about it.
ReplyDeleteI used to work for Newport Creamery and we used to get all our muffins and Supper Chipper cookies from them. My personal fave was the corn muffins. I liked them so much I ordered a few cases over the years lol. Sad to just find out they closed a while ago...
ReplyDeleteAnyone have the frosting recipe
ReplyDeleteMy family of 6 grown siblings, ages 50-60, still crave Korbs' birthday cake at every single gathering and reunion. It always is the subject of conversation when a cake is eaten. We have searched for alternatives, of course there are none. Our long speeches about how good that cake was drive each other crazy. Just thinking about the cake -- that frosting and the lemon cake, is driving me crazy now. I must stop thinking about it. There is no more Korbs.
ReplyDeletePlease send the original recipe for the white birthday cake and frosting they were the Best , we raised our kids on them my daughter would love to have it . Thank you
ReplyDeleteMy mom worked for Korbs Bakery for most of my young childhood, and I remember the chocolate chip cookies being the best!. I tell my grandkids about them all the time, and would love to share with them. If anyone has the recipe or know's where I can get it, ppplmk. aquafan@outlook.com
ReplyDeleteI worked at the Korb’s in Warwick through high school and would love to have the recipe for chop suey bars. lynmacemail@icloud.com
ReplyDeleteI am seeking the recipe for the Korbs meltaways. Anyone??
ReplyDeleteI Wish I could find somewhere they made the echo cakes .They were the best I used to drive all the way from Plainville Mass with my dad when I was younger 40 years ago.
ReplyDeleteHe is in a nursing home now , I would like nothing more to bring him a echo cake like korbs bakery made. Any one knows where to go and one?