Owners Shelly and Matt Sehnert have been running the operation since 1991.
Wauneta-made flour helps win national award
A Wauneta business has played a role in a McCook business winning a prestigious national award.
Wauneta Roller Mills supplies much of the flour used by Sehnert’s Bakery & Bieroc Café in McCook, which was named a one of this year’s America’s Classics Winners by the New York-based James Beard Foundation.
“It’s pretty nice that we deliver them flour about once a week — about a ton every week or so,” said Roller Mills co-owner Ashley Einspahr.
“Matt’s a great guy and it’s a good family. It’s a pretty great deal.”
On its web page announcing the awards, the foundation said:
“The bieroc is as essential to the fabric of Nebraska as is Husker football. A savory yeasted pastry, its legacy reaches back to German-speaking Russians who immigrated to the state in the nineteenth century. Sehnert’s, in the southwest Nebraska town of McCook, makes a definitive version.
“The Sehnert family has been baking in the United States since 1897. Walt and Jean Sehnert opened the McCook bakery in 1957, and fourth-generation baker Matt Sehnert and his wife, Shelly, have operated the business since 1991. They provide a place to gather for everyday meals and special events; for live music; and, of course, for the signature bierocs filled with seasoned ground beef and cabbage or sauerkraut.”
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