Bakery

After more than a year of negotiations, two community groups reached an agreement Thursday with Sweet Sin Bakery and Cafe owner Richard D'Souza, who can now serve drinks at his Remington restaurant, but has agreed to close at earlier hours. D'Souza's bid for a liquor license failed last month, but the agreement reached with the Charles Village Civic Association and the Greater Remington Improvement Association revived his plan. The compromise requires him to stop serving alcohol at 10:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and close at 11 p.m. On weekends, Sweet Sin must stop serving alcohol at 12:30 a.m. and close at 1 a.m. The Baltimore Board of Liquor License Commissioners approved the plan Thursday.

The Baltimore liquor board on Thursday denied a request to transfer a liquor license to the owner of a gluten free bakery in Remington. Liquor board chairman Stephan Fogleman said during his ruling that the board sees no immediate need for the business. Richard D'Souza, owner of Sweet Sin in the 100 block of W. 27 t h Street, wanted to open a restaurant next door to the bakery and take over a longstanding liquor license designated for that location. But D'Souza's bid was opposed by the Remington Neighborhood Alliance and the Charles Village Civic Association, whose members expressed concern over a likely increase in noise and an influx of Johns Hopkins students if the restaurant serves alcohol till 2 a.m. The Greater Remington Improvement Association supported the transfer.

Northeast Foods of Baltimore, a commercial bakery owned by the Paterakis and Tsakalos families of Maryland, plans to build a $25.4 million bakery in Clayton, North Carolina. North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue and Northeast president Bill Paterakis announced Monday that Northeast will begin construction of the 80,000-square-foot facility this summer and open it in the spring of 2011. Expected to create 84 jobs over the next two years, the project will bring to six the number of states in which Northeast operates a baking facility, after Maryland, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Java Grand Cafe will play host to these concerts, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., 9050 Baltimore National Pike, Ellicott City. Call 410-480-3865: •Feb. 13: Sticky Mulligan, Billy J Carter, Alex Culbreth. •March 13: J&B Blues Project, Majolica Buzz, Cameron Blake. Sweet bakery and cafe will host these concerts, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., 8143 Main St., Ellicott City. Call 410-461-9275: •Feb. 27: Jessica Rhee, Steve Hung, Happy Haines. •March 6: Andy Luttrell, Steve Lanocha.

In one corner of the bare-bones bakery, Louise Clayton, 62, hushed a visitor as she carefully counted out scoops of cocoa for the fudge icing she was making. Missy Tyler, 49, measured out batter and poured it into a cake tin. She did it nine more times before popping the 10 tins into the oven. Donna Smith, 45, placed one cooled thin layer before her and covered it with Clayton's icing. She added layers and icing nine more times until an authentic Smith Island cake sat in front of her. The barely five-month-old Smith Island Baking Co. has 10 employees making Maryland's official state dessert and shipping it across the country.

In one corner of the bare-bones bakery, Louise Clayton, 62, hushed a visitor as she carefully counted out scoops of cocoa for the fudge icing she was making. Missy Tyler, 49, measured out batter and poured it into a cake tin. She did it nine more times before popping the 10 tins into the oven. Donna Smith, 45, placed one cooled thin layer before her and covered it with Clayton's icing. She added layers and icing nine more times until an authentic Smith Island cake sat in front of her. The barely five-month-old Smith Island Baking Co. has 10 employees making Maryland's official state dessert and shipping it across the country.

Kornel Korczynski, a retired East Baltimore baker, died of complications from dementia Sept. 8 at Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster. He was 88. Born in Baltimore, the son of Ukrainian immigrants, he was raised in Curtis Bay and Highlandtown. He was educated in city public schools and at St. Mary's Industrial School. During World War II, he served as a military policeman and baker in the Army. "When he was in the Army, the Germans taught him how to bake," said a brother, Emil Korczynski of Felton, Pa. After being discharged, he returned to Baltimore and opened the Dutch Oven Bakery on Mace Avenue in Essex.

My grandmother enforced a no-oven policy during the hottest part of the summer. Her adamant don't-heat-up-the-kitchen stance caused some interesting detours when a family birthday fell during the cake-baking blackout period. The simple answer was to phone Fiske's, the wonderful Park Avenue-Bolton Hill confectioner, and order a cake and ice cream, which was delivered in a snappy-looking dark blue truck with gold lettering. The ice cream came boxed and wrapped in dry ice that, when placed in a bucket of water, made great spooky clouds.

George Dayton Dodge, a mechanic and former fleet manager for the H&S Baking Co. who earned two Silver Stars in combat during the Korean War, died of cancer May 22 at a daughter's Dundalk home. He was 80. Mr. Dodge was born in Terra Alta, W.Va., and raised in Oakland, Garrett County. He enlisted in the Army in 1946, and served from 1950 to 1951 as a staff sergeant with the 195th Ordnance Depot Company near Korea's 38th Parallel, where he experienced fierce enemy action. "I was in two active fire fights.