Dee's General Store and Bakery

The Locale - People, Places and Food Around Guelph (blog)

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A million tarts later, it's time to celebrate

The Waterloo Region Record, July 2, 2008

Dee Picott is basking in the sweet smell of success.

The Cambridge woman expects to sell her one millionth butter tart tomorrow. ... more

Butter-tart baker records sweet sign of success

The Record, March 19, 2004

Monday will be a sweet day at Dee's General Store when owner-baker Dee-Dee Picott expects to sell her 500,000th butter tart... more

Sweet Propostion

The Cambridge Reporter, March 15, 2002

Butter tarts and a little deceit serve as backdrop for marriage proposal at Dee's General Store... more

Will you marry me?

Flamborough Review, Friday March 22, 2002

Adam Ross repeatedly told girlfriend Angie Burtch that he would marry her when the sign in front of Dee's General Store in Valens said that 500,000 butter tarts had been baked... more

And the best bought butter tart is...

The Kitchener Record, Sept 19, 1998

...The tarts were cut in quarters and identified by an A, B, C or D. We printed the ballots set up the table and waited. It was a very popular stop at the open house...more