This one was on the list.
We had been told at various times over the past seven years to visit Hegedorns. A court clerk at Pittsford Town Court recommended it. A co-worker, Webster citizen she, recommended it. It was on the Sir Rocha Says website perhaps. (Update, it wasn’t). But Hegedorns was present at the Beer and Donut Tasting that we had the good fortune to attend.
Hegedorns is perched like a gargoyle atop a complex of concrete parking lots, interconnected. If you park down near Ollie’s Bargain Outlet, Hegedorns is watching. Did its eyes just move? No. That’s crazy. Because it’s a market and has no eyes.
The history of Hegedorns is an interesting one.
The interior of the place is a marketplace of yore. Like the East Rochester Wegmans or a smaller version of the Honeoye Falls Marketplace or the Big M in the hamlet of Mendon, although now that one’s called something different. Behold! Time passes. Hegedorns cares not.
The bakery sector is in the back right-hand side of the interior. Do not be distracted by the donut display up front! That’s a Finger Lakes Coffee display meant to distract naive travelers (i.e., non-Xonuts-readers). Be comfortable in the fact that you have chosen us as your breakfast guide. Push past the tiny, pitiful display, and approach the back of the store.
Lemon with lemon atop 
Lemon within
There are many choices, but we know why we’re here: the apple fritter.
like a coy Dutch woman guarding a dark secret
Crispy on the outside. Chewy in parts. Tiny bits of apple greet you like an old friend who has just come back inside the cabin to greet you, after an afternoon of chopping wood, and you’re sitting in his log cabin on the couch and he says, “Please grab a beer from the ‘fridge, and one for me too.” And you sit on the couch and drink beer while rain patters against the window behind you.
Another review of the fritter was included in the above-described post from the Rohrbach’s Donut/Beer Pairing:
The Hegedorns apple fritter was so dense that I was worried it would soon collapse on itself and form a singularity. Good thing the bakers at Hegedorns double-checked their math so as to remain below the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit. The apple fritter is a classic; nothing too unique and nothing to have nightmares about. Vanilla Porter – always a classic.
If for some reason you find yourself Lost in Time and Space (i.e., in Webster),
Head to Hegedorns and get an apple fritter. Or some other donut, but tbh the apple fritter was where it was at.
Pro Tip: The peanut and PB&J and pistachio donuts are off to the right, due to peanut allergies, in a separate wooden case.
Don’t Miss: The apple fritter. Weren’t you paying attention?
