Small-batch · Northern Ontario

Resin, smoke and cold air.

Cold-process bars cut from a 20 lb loaf and cured six weeks on cedar racks. Every scent is built from something that grows north of the 49th.

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Cold process, six weeks, no shortcuts.

Oils and lye meet at 38 °C and go into a 20 lb wooden mould. Colour is clay and charcoal, never dye.

A day later the loaf is firm enough to cut by hand with a wire. The edges stay irregular because a hand cut them.

Six weeks on cedar racks while the water leaves. A cured bar lasts twice as long in the dish.

The bars and tins people come back for.