Marillenringe: Austrian Jammy Dodgers

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…

Linzer Torte

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…