Day 7 - This is December | CHALLENGE

the tradition of eating stollen

The Royal Infant

My family and my grandmother was very attached to certain Saxon traditions.
This also included the baking of the Christstollen, which is also known in Dresden under the name "Striezel".
The tradition of baking Christmas Stollen in Dresden is very old. Historians fond out that Christmas Stollen was already baked in 1400.
Religion aspects influenced the history of the "Dresden Christmas Stollen". The rolled form of the Stollen symbolized the wrapped in a nappy and lie in a hay box Christ Child.

For my grandmother, the annual baking of the Christmas stollen was a very important tradition, which she fulfilled with devotion. I was always with her in the kitchen and she kept telling me about the stollen - thickly coated with melted butter and thickly with powdered sugar to commemorate the baby Jesus in diapers.
She always spoke of the "royal child" - and
At the end she always said: “There it lies, the swaddling baby, covered in butter and sprinkled with sugar, white as freshly fallen snow, heavy with raisins, candied lemon peel and almonds, and surrounded by the delicate scent of vanilla.