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  "name": "Maple bar",
  "aliases": [
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   "maple long john",
   "maple creamstick",
   "maple bismarck"
  ],
  "said": "On the West Coast it is a bar. Say Long John in Portland and you will be understood, and marked."
 },
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  "finish": "iced"
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  "what": "A bar of raised dough, fried, then topped end to end with maple-flavoured icing. Sometimes filled with custard or cream; sometimes finished with chopped bacon, which is a newer idea and an argued one.",
  "story": "The same pastry carries different names by region. Long John runs through the Midwest, Canada and Texas; the Mid-Atlantic and central Canada sometimes sell it as an éclair, though an éclair is choux and this is yeast; parts of the Midwest say finger doughnut or cream stick when it is filled. On the West Coast it is a bar — maple bar, chocolate bar, filled bar — and the maple one is the one the coast is known for.",
  "how": "Sheet raised dough, cut rectangles, proof, fry, cool enough that icing will not run off, then dip the top face in maple icing and set it down icing-up.",
  "today": "A maple bar is the default second donut in a West Coast dozen — the one that goes in after the glazed."
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   "author": "Kevin Galens",
   "credit": "Bacon Maple",
   "alt": "A bacon maple bar from Voodoo Doughnut in Portland, Oregon.",
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   "key": "socal",
   "name": "Southern California",
   "state": "CA",
   "note": "Los Angeles, Orange County, the Inland Empire; the pink box and roughly a thousand independent shops"
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