{"id":11988,"date":"2020-07-22T06:55:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T10:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=11988"},"modified":"2021-07-11T21:33:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T01:33:24","slug":"wellington-county-butter-tarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=11988","title":{"rendered":"Wellington County Butter Tarts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wellington County proclaims it is home to a provincially recognized Butter Tart Champion (?!). The County has excellent bakeries, farm markets and restaurants and it is actively promoting a ramble through the countryside to discover a \u201cfavourite butter tart.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In Wellington County there are 13 stops that feature butter tarts. From Belwood Country Market to Strom\u2019s Farm south of Guelph, there is a great map and wonderful write ups of the bakeries: Wellington County Butter Tarts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Make a stop into Misty Meadows Market in Conn<\/p>\n

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Here is must-stop: Thatcher Farms Butcher Shop, Makery and Farm Market outside of Guelph<\/p>\n

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In previous years, Wellington County also has hosted an annual Butter Tarts and Buggies Tour<\/a>. Check out this event \u2013 and let\u2019s hope in the future it will resume.<\/p>\n

And about the County\u2019s claim of having the champion butter tart baker\u2026.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cHelen Moffat has been entering (and winning) the butter tart competition at the Drayton Fair for 48 years. But this past fall, she decided to submit her prize-winning tarts to a new competition, which would make her eligible for the second annual provincial butter tart competition hosted by the OAAS (Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies). Moffat swept the competition at Drayton and then moved on to districts (there are 15 OAAS districts in Ontario) to face off against other local winners.\u2019 In February 2019 she was crowned the grand champion of the OAAS for her butter tart recipe.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u2018She\u2019s not revealing the secret to her prize-winning ways any time soon. Much to her family\u2019s chagrin, she doesn\u2019t have a recipe to pass down. \u201cI eyeball it, I never measure anything. That\u2019s just the way I\u2019ve done it for years,\u201d she says.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

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By George<\/em>\u00a0has declared July as \u201cButter Tart Month.\u201d\u00a0Here is a menu of our delectable articles<\/a>\u00a0on Canada\u2019s iconic dessert.<\/p>\n

Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer or experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @\u00a0CG&A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wellington County proclaims it is home to a provincially recognized Butter Tart Champion (?!). The County has excellent bakeries, farm markets and restaurants and it is actively promoting a ramble through the countryside to discover a \u201cfavourite butter tart.\u201d In Wellington County there are 13 stops that feature butter tarts. From Belwood Country Market to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11993,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988\/revisions\/11993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}