PEORIA — Names and tastes may change but bread is still getting made in this South Peoria neighbornood as it has for more than a century.
The Butternut bread plant at 1511 W. Lincoln Ave. not only pumps out that fresh bakery smell throughout the area but produced 56 million pounds of bread and buns last year, said general manager Matt Stringer.
Bread was first baked on this site in 1905, when the operation was known as Schultze's Buttercrust Bakery. In the early 1930s, the bakery was purchased by Interstate Brands, a national firm now known as Hostess Brands.
Today the Butternut bakery in Peoria runs two shifts a day, producing bread and buns for a sales area that extends far beyond the city, serving much of the state, said Stringer. The building's 29 truck docks stay busy day and night with deliveries to Chicago, Indianapolis and Waterloo, Iowa, among the most frequent stops, he said.
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