QUOTE(Uncle Stu @ Oct 26 2018, 17:13)
Just ate the first stollen of the year. Oh, i love traditions. (IMG:[
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It is a bread with a long tradition in German cuisine. The first written mention of Stollen dates back to 1329 in Naumburg (Saale), being offered as a Christmas gift for a bishop. With the passage of time, it has maintained its shape with very few changes. They want to maintain the intention of imitating a baby wrapped in diapers, making reference to the newborn baby Jesus Christ.
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The Advent season was a time of fasting, and bakers were not allowed to use butter, only oil, and the cake was tasteless and hard. In the 15th century, in medieval Saxony (in central Germany, north of Bavaria and south of Brandenburg), the Prince Elector Ernst (1441–1486) and his brother Duke Albrecht (1443–1500) decided to remedy this by writing to the Pope in Rome. The Saxon bakers needed to use butter, as oil in Saxony was expensive, hard to come by, and had to be made from turnips.
Pope Nicholas V (1397–1455), in 1450 denied the first appeal. Five popes died before finally, Pope Innocent VIII, (1432–1492)[8] in 1490 sent a letter to the Prince, known as the "Butter-Letter" which granted the use of butter (without having to pay a fine), but only for the Prince-Elector and his family and household.
Others were also permitted to use butter, but on the condition of having to pay annually 1/20th of a gold Gulden to support the building of the Freiberg Minster. The ban on butter was removed when Saxony became Protestant.
Christianity is weird, but indeed looks tasty (IMG:[
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