@!#$!@ you sold my what??

Christstollen is really great - we've so many different types here in Germany.

My favorite one is with a filling of marzipan and baked apples. A good slice of this and 2 cups of glühwein and you are in heaven.

Would be no problem for me to send you some real German christmas stuff.
We've plenty of nice sweets here around christmas: Christstollen, Lebkuchen + Aachener Printen, Baumkuchen ...

 

Oh, shit, that blows.

*Hides his recently purchased Weinachtsstollen*

 

damn, that truly sucks.

maybe i can send you some via express delivery

 

Lebkuchen, how dearly I love you.

 

What is it? What's it taste like?

 

They're like little round cookies, but strongly spiced, sometimes glazed, and always delicious.

EDIT: if any friendly Deutschlanders fancy sending me a bag, I'd love you forever. And pay via Paypal, of course.

 

I am very confused.

You pre-ordered cookies?

And then your wife sold them? What is she a girl scout? Seriously I don't get it.

 

I hate both, Lebkuchen and Christmas Stollen, so it's hard for me to empathize your disappointment ^^

 

Never tried this bread (is it bread?).

 

Its a cake with raisins and tastes rather 'massive' if you ask me.


It has really lots of fans though and most people like it, but I don't like much of those christmas cake things, I dislike Panettone as well. What I prefer are almond biscuits (I would kill for them!) and, for on the go, 'Schmalzkuchen' (I wasnt able to find a translation of this: fried pieces of dough with sugar powder):


Love!

 

No, it's bread... well it's a cake, but they call it bread. And the wife of the shopkeeper sold it, instead of keeping it for Kev!

I think you're thinking of Lebkuchen indeed - the "spice" is because they're gingerbread. You can get them readily in Sainsbury's, Aldi and of course Lidl, as it is a German supermarket!

Kev, would it help if I could get the name of a supplier in Princeton? I think I can.

EDIT:

http://www.germangrocery.com

They're in Palisades Park, NJ. If you want to pick up your order, CALL and place the order on the phone.

Search for stollen - several varieties!

You can get recipies all over the net, too... e.g.

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/stollen,1294,RC.html

 

I made an English Christmas Cake this year. Find a recipe and make your own!

 

That's what I said ;-)

Traditional Christmas cake, nice! Fruit cake with lots of alcohol, topped with marzipan and icing?

 

Yeah, I really miss the soft glazed German gingerbread cookies every Christmas, too. Stollen doesn't look _that_ great, but oh, gingerbread...

(hard to find in Japan...)

 

Sounds yummy, lol!!!!!

 

Yes sir! It is not iced yet, but plenty of rum has been 'fed' to it and this weekend I will do the marzipan and icing.

Fruit cake is a joke here, but they have not had English style.

 

Yup, that's the way to do it! My Mum does fancy piping on the top - some kind of Christmassy shape like a star or Christmas tree. Great stuff! ;-)

That said, a traditional fruit cake (no alcohol or icing) is a much drier affair and not so sickly sweet, but done properly can be very nice, too! Shop bought fruit cake tends to be more like a sponge and rather moist. Not right!!

What led you to making a proper Christmas cake like that, then?

 

ahh ok got it.


I'll have to try them I am a big fan of food.

 

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You have a wife and you never told us?