Stollen
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Stollen (German:
Ingredients
Stollen is a cake-like fruit bread made with yeast, water and flour, and usually with
Dresden Stollen (originally
History
Early stollen was different from the modern version, with the ingredients being flour, oats and water.[9] As a Christmas bread, stollen was baked for the first time at the Council of Trent in 1545,[10] and was made with flour, yeast, oil and water.
The
Pope Nicholas V (1397–1455), in 1450[11] denied the first appeal. Five popes died before finally, in 1490, Pope Innocent VIII (1432–1492)[10] sent a letter, known as the "Butter-Letter", to the prince's successor. This granted the use of butter (without having to pay a fine), but only for the Prince-Elector and his family and household.[citation needed]
Others were also permitted to use butter, but on the condition of having to pay annually 1/20 of a gold coin
Over the centuries, the bread changed from being a simple, fairly tasteless "bread" to a sweeter bread with richer ingredients, such as marzipan, although traditional Stollen is not as sweet, light, and airy as the copies made around the world.[citation needed]
In the
Commercially made stollen has become a popular Christmas food in Britain in recent decades, complementing traditional dishes such as
Dresden Stollen festival
Every year the Stollenfest takes place in Dresden. This historic tradition ended only in 1918 with the fall of the monarchy,[10] and started again in 1994, but the idea comes from Dresden's history.
Dresden's Christmas market, the Striezelmarkt, was mentioned in the chronicles for the first time in 1474.[10]
The tradition of baking Christmas stollen in Dresden is very old. Christmas stollen in Dresden was already baked in the 15th century.[13]
In 1560, the bakers of Dresden offered the rulers of Saxony Christmas Stollen weighing 36 pounds (16 kg) each as gifts, and the custom continued.[10]
Today, the festival takes place on the Saturday before the second Sunday in Advent, and the cake weighs between three and four tonnes. A carriage takes the cake in a parade through the streets of Dresden to the Christmas market, where it is ceremoniously cut into pieces and distributed among the crowd, in return for a small payment which goes to charity. A special knife, the Grand Dresden Stollen knife, a silver-plated knife, 1.60 metres (5.2 ft) long weighing 12 kilograms (26 lb), which is a copy of the lost baroque original knife from 1730, is used to cut the oversize Stollen at the Dresden Christmas fair.[14]
The largest stollen was baked in 2010 by
Gallery
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Christmas Stollen with raisins
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A Stollen, close up detail
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A Dutch Kerststol with an almond paste filling
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Stollen made with poppy seed paste
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Sliced stollen on a plate
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Loaves of stollen
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Stollen
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Mini Marzipan Stollen
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Cut stollen on wooden board
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Plaited stollen (Strietzel) with candied fruits and nuts
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How to make Stollen
See also
- Bremer Klaben
- Christkindlmarkt
- Christmas pudding
- Christmas worldwide
- Cuisine of Germany
References
- ^ Duden: Zi|tro|nat, das
- ^ Recipe for Dresdner Weihnachtsstollen Mimi Sheraton, The German Cookbook, from Random House
- ^ "Learning and Teaching German". Archived from the original on 2017-03-25.
- ^ "Christstollen" (in German).
- ^ Felicity Cloak (15 December 2016). "How to bake the perfect stollen". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ^ a b "City of Dresden - Tourism - The original Dresden Stollen". 22 January 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-01-22.
- ^ Meyers Lexikon Archived 2009-12-31 at the Wayback Machine: "Besonders bekannt ist der Dresdner Stollen" ("the Dresden Stollen is especially well-known")
- ^ "Schutzverband Dresdner Christstollen e. V." (in German).
- ^ Von Gänsen, Karpfen, Lebkuchen und Stollen Dtsch Med. Wochenschrift 2003;128: 2691–2694 (p. 4)
- ^ a b c d e f g (haftungsbeschränkt), Bäckerei & Konditorei Gnauck UG. "The History of the Christ Stollen from Dresden - Bäckerei & Konditorei Gnauck". Bäckerei & Konditorei Gnauck.
- ^ "Origins".
- ^ Jay Rayner: Christmas taste test: stollen
- ^ Kagachi, Chihiro (1958). German Cuisine, Past and Present.
- ^ a b Stollen knife Archived 2006-02-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Longest Christmas stollen". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
External links
- Dresden Stollen Festival
- Dresden Stollen history, in English from the Germany Embassy in Canada