There were lots of highlights about Christmas, but the first in chronological order was an entire day with which to make Christmas Stollen. Yay! (And a borrowed kitchen that was very kindly allowed to become ridiculously messy before it got clean again.) This was last year’s batch, but this year’s looked more or less the…
Tag: German Christmas bread
Christmas Stollen: Slightly New, Slightly Improved, Still Delicious
I’ve been talking about my family’s Christmas Stollen recipe for years, and I think it’s time the recipe finally made its way out into the world. German Christmas Stollen perplexed me as a kid. Was it stolen? Why did we bake bread and call it stolen? What was this thing called “candied citron,” and why…
Small, but valuable. 