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supermarkets and synagogues,
Marilyn Rice applied.
If Mrs. Salba is the creative ge- Sunshine Treats has haman-
nius behind Sunshine Treats (she tashen dough that gets many stu-
comes up with most of the dents at Hillel and in Sunday
recipes), Mrs. Rice is the brains. schools off to a good start. Mrs.
She handles the business mat- Rice and Mrs. Salba will supply
ters and all those little details dough for children to make their
that put things into place — lit- own cookies for the holiday, sav-
ing teachers the painful task of
erally.
measuring, and clean-
"To even get in
ing up, and stirring,
(Pam's kitchen) you
Sunshin e Treats
and cleaning up, and
had to step around four
produce s 20,000
mixing, and cleaning
buckets," she said.
hamantas hen each
Pur im.
up, all that flour and
When she went for the
water and salt.
interview, "I'm looking
In the early days, Sunshine
around and I say, `0y, does she
Treats sometimes pulled all the
need my help.'"
"It was a small place!" Mrs. punches when it came to getting
fresh hamantashen out the door.
Salba counters.
It wasn't the salary — $5 an Friends and family knew they
hour — that eventually lured were to be on call. "What are you
Mrs. Rice. She announced: "I'll doing two nights before Purim?"
make you a deal. I don't want Mrs. Rice and Mrs. Salba would
your $5. But if you're looking for casually ask.
Now, though, the two have it
a partner, I guarantee that you'll
have your own factory in six down to a culinary science. They
hire extra workers for busy days,
months."
Mrs. Salba signed on, though and the ovens run day and night
when she told her husband about except Shabbat, when the store
the deal he asked, "Look, who is is closed.
The front of the shop on 12
this person?"
It has been smooth sailing ever Mile Road is deceptively small.
There are muffins and cookies
since.
The hamantash recipe began and drinks for sale in a glass
with a dough recipe from Mrs. case. But in the large back it's
Salba's grandmother, a native of more action than a Jean-Claude
Minsk, who used it for pies and van Damme film. Workers are
cookies. Mrs. Salba and Mrs. Rice opening 1,800-pound bags of flour
made a few adjustments, tasting (about 25 of which come in each
and trying and tasting again un- day); raspberry filling sits ready,
stacked in white buckets.
til they had it perfected.
"This is de-licious," Mrs. Sal-
There are still some issues,
ba says, admiring the filling.
though.
A board on the wall lists the
Mrs. Rice is ready to take on
blueberry filling. Mrs. Salba pos- day's cooking schedule, including
itively cringes at the way it's go- muffins with names like Heart-
ing to spill all over the sides of throb Raisin and Berry Blitz. The
fat-free treats are always in de-
the cookie dough.
But they do concur on what mand.
One woman who was going on
won't sit in the middle of their
cookies, and that's something vacation wondered how many
tasteless. "You know those things boxes of a certain fat-free cookie
that have no fruit, just colored she could fit into a suitcase. An-
sugar and a little schmear of jam. other brought in her own dish
Your mother didn't skimp, did and asked Mrs. Rice and Mrs.
Salba to place the cookies on it;
she?" Mrs. Rice asks.
"What Jewish mother she wanted friends to think she
had made them herself.
skimps?" says Mrs. Salba.
Mrs. Rice and Mrs. Salba
Unlike most other haman-
tashen, Sunshine Treats' cookies thought nothing of it.
'We'll do whatever we can to
are dairy. That makes them
tastier, the two women say, please customers," they both say.
"That's why people come to us:
though not quite as versatile.
In addition to supplying local they like the personal touch." ❑

