This Famous Cinnamon Bread Is Bathed In Butter And Sugar Before It's Baked
Anyone who's eaten her way through Dollywood before knows that you've got a lot of good options. Anyone who really wants to do it right, though, knows there is only one place you must visit and one food you must eat. That place, my friends, is The Gristmill. That food, my lovelies, is the cinnamon bread.
Yes, the storied bread is being produced by the thousands every day in Pigeon Forge, TN, such is its popularity. And when we got to go behind the scenes of how the bread is made, we understood why. The house-made loaves are quite literally bathed in a butter tub and then smushed all up with cinnamon sugar before they're baked juuust enough to make them just-about-to-fall-apart perfect.
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There is no time of day when The Gristmill isn't pumping out bread, dunking it in butter, and squishing it with cinnamon. The loaves are put in the restaurant's massive ovens in batches of about 200 for half an hour, only to be put out for sale with lil containers of apple butter and vanilla icing and grabbed up immediately. At no point during my three-and-a-half day visit to Dollywood did I not see a line out The Gristmill's door—both the front and back entrances had them.
Anyway. It's good. Like, get-on-a-plane-and-go good. Go! Now! Now!
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