A great meal needs a good dumpling – and this one certainly stands out: called ‘napkin dumpling’, it retains its form because it is wrapped up like a sausage in a napkin or a tea towel. Like its smaller cousin, the Weckknödel, Serviettenknödel are made from old bread, eggs and onions, but its larger size gives it a…
With only a week to go, time is running out for making gingerbread: the dough needs to rest over night and the finished biscuits, too, need some time to mellow. If you have been planning to make a gingerbread house, you better get going – we’ll be making ours at the weekend, in case you…
Feuerzangenbowle isn’t just punch, it is an event. Immortalised by a 1944 film of the same title, this mulled wine is served with a rum-soaked sugarloaf which is set on fire, dripping melting sugar (and some rum) into the concoction. A popular alternative to mulled wine, it’s a great way to round off a Christmas or…
These biscuits have been part of our family Christmas for as long as I remember: crumbly and buttery shortbread-style biscuits, filled with apricot jam – ‘Marillen’ being the Austrian dialect word for apricots. In many ways they are a distant cousin of my butter biscuits, which I openly preferred when smaller, because of the fact that…
The oldest recipe for Linzer Torte dates from the 17th Century, making this perhaps the oldest known cake recipe in the world. Its ongoing success is no surprise: the dough is made primarily from either hazelnuts or almonds, subtly flavoured with cinnamon, and filled with red currant jam. ‘Ribisel ‘ as the red currants are…
Lebkuchen, a sweet spiced bread, have been popular in Germany since the Middle Ages – in fact, specific Lebkuchen bakers were mentioned as early as 1239 in a document in the city of Ulm, documenting the popularity of the breads. Lebkuchen are the product of an increasingly successful international trade in the period: the introduction of…
Christmas time is not just a time for spending time with family and friends, first and foremost it is a time for frantically searching for presents. For your foodie friends and those with a sweet tooth, I make these little cakelets in jam jars: in the fridge, they last for a good 4 weeks (or…
Today is St Nicholas, celebrating the patron saint of children. The night before St Nicholas, we place out shoes outside the door in the hope that St Nicholas will fill them with apples, sweets, nuts and – hopefully! – a little present. Before he became the official poster boy for a well-known beverages company, St…
The traditional English Christmas, really, is a mix of German traditions and Charles Dickens: most of the ‘traditional’ decorations associated with Christmas were made fashionable by Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria, who must have brought them along as his dowry. When a London journal published a picture of the royal family gathered around…
Who hasn’t got a jar full of cookie cutters in their cupboard? Those simple metal ones you had to buy because … well, because you really liked the shape of them? We have them, too. Dozens of Christmas-themed stars, snow flakes, Santas and gingerbread men, as well as slightly less Christmassy dinosaurs, aeroplanes and a…
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