Series: Christmas Specialties

In this last episode in our series on traditional European Christmas specialties we are in Germany to find out about stollen. Stollen originated in Dresden and was first written up about 500 years ago. It’s a baked loaf full of dried fruit, nuts and spices. Our roving reporer Mathias Stamm traveled to the Dresden Backhaus to get a lesson in how to make it. The following recipe will make two stollen. Ingredients: 1000 g flour100 g yeast (2,5 cubes)1/2 liter milk200 g sugar500 g but