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True Brit Baker serves up a little slice of England Eastern By Lindsey Ward T he name Adele seems to spell success these days – even in Steinbach, where an English business owner's homemade pastries are selling like hotcakes. Adele Dart shares a moniker with an internationally acclaimed singer, but her product is truly unique – especially compared to others on offer around the province, she insists. "I've been around Winnipeg and tasted the English pies and, sorry to say, but they're not traditional English pies," she says. At Adele's Pies and Cakes at 186 Main St., Dart and her staff of three – including twin cake decorators – offer up a true slice of England, with their own twists. "Everything's made out of love, you know," Dart says. "There's a very high level of pride here. We don't just knock things out because they're going to sell. We care about what we put out." Their hearts are clearly in the right place; since opening in May, the crew at Adele's have become especially popular for their family-sized dinner pies – anything from steak and 28 MBiz November 2013 kidney to chicken pot pies that are baked in store, frozen and sold for $13.50. "People travel in from Winnipeg all the time for the Englishstyle meat pies," says Dart, who gets her meat from a nearby butcher and buys as many other local ingredients as possible.  "There are a lot of people here with English descent and they talk about Grandma and what she used to make, so it's quite sweet." Adele's also does sausage rolls, pork pies, hot pots and a wide range of pasties – "not to be mistaken with a pasty," Dart laughs, referring to the glue-on kind that's popular with the burlesque crowd. "It's like a folded-over meat pie with no foil," she explains, adding Cornish pasties are most traditional, but the shop's chicken, bacon and mushroom pasties have been a hit. On the sweeter side, Adele's creates fruit pie combos like blueberry-peach and cherry-marshmallow. They also make a mean cinnamon-bun cookie, and serve up a variety of English

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