Maple pastry

Maple Pastry is a processed food item in Timberborn. It is classified as a good and is produced by combining wheat flour and maple syrup in a bakery. Maple Pastry is not a raw harvest or simple product; it requires a production chain involving farmers, a tapper, and a bakery to convert primary ressources into the finished pastry.

Being a processed food means that there are additional requirements to produce maple pastries beyond simply having the ingredients available. To complete the production chain, the settlement must support the workforce and buildings that process raw crops into flour and extract syrup from maples before baking.

• Have farmers in a farmhouse grow and harvest wheat. Farmers are responsible for planting and collecting the wheat that serves as the base crop for flour.
• Grind the harvested wheat into wheat flour. Wheat must be processed into flour before it can be used in baking.
• Have a tapper harvest maple syrup from fully grown maples. Maple syrup is collected by assigning a tapper to mature maple trees.
• Bake the flour and maple syrup into maple pastries in a bakery. The bakery consumes wheat flour and maple syrup to produce the finished Maple Pastry good.

Maple Pastry production therefore requires coordination between agricultural production (wheat farming), tapping operations (maple syrup collection), processing (flour milling), and bakery production. Plan the placement and staffing of farmhouse, tapper assignments, mill/grinder (or equivalent flour-producing facility), and bakery to keep the supply chain running. If any step lacks capacity or workers, pastry production will stall.