Some of the German Specialties Recipes for the Holiday Season:
Christmas baked apples:
Ingredients: 4 large, tart apples 10g (1 tbsp) butter 4 tsps raisins Flaked almonds Honey-water mixture To prepare: Wash the apples, then remove the stalk, the core and the pips with an apple corer. Make a horizontal cut around each apple so it won't burst. Place in a greased shallow ovenproof dish then fill with raisins and flaked almonds. Sprinkle with cinnamon and pour honey-water mixture into the top. Bake on a low shelf at 200°C for approx. 30 mins. Leave the apples to cool, then serve.
Glühwein - mulled wine:
Ingredients: 1 litre dry red wine 1 unwaxed lemon 2 cinnamon sticks 3 cloves 3 tbsp sugar Cardamom to taste To prepare: Heat the red wine. Slice the lemon and add to the hot red wine together with the cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and sugar. Heat for approx. 5 mins. then remove from the heat. Cover and allow to infuse for 1 hour. Reheat and pass through a sieve before serving.
Gingerbred men:
Bake our gingerbread men at home using this easy traditional recipe. Melt together 50g clarified butter, 300g honey and 100g sugar - do not boil, allow to cool slightly. Work 300g flour, 2 eggs, salt, 150g ground almonds, 15g mixed spice and the honey mixture into a dough - cover and allow to stand at room temperature for at least 48 hours. 1/2 tsp. bicarbonate of soda, 1/2 tsp. baker's ammonia - mix each with 1 tbsp. of water and work into the dough. Roll out the mixture, cut the shapes out and decorate. Bake for 10-15 mins. at 180 degrees C and allow to cool.
Spritz cookies:
Ingredients: 200g butter 200g sugar 3 eggs 500g flour 1 packet vanilla sugar To prepare: Beat the butter until foamy, then add the eggs and the sugar mixed with the vanilla sugar. Stir everything together well. Stir in the flour. Using an icing bag, pipe different shapes onto a baking sheet covered with baking paper. Bake for around 10-12 minutes at 175°C.
Marzipan Potatoes:
Ingredients: 200g marzipan 100g icing sugar 2cl brown rum 30g cocoa powder To prepare: Knead together the marzipan, icing sugar and rum well, then make into a roll. Cut off equal-size pieces and shape into oval balls. Using a skewer, make irregular indentations in the "potatoes" to resemble the "eyes". Then dust the marzipan potatoes with the cocoa powder until well coated.
Dresdner Christstollen:
Ingredients: 750g flour, 275g butter, 90g sugar, 75g yeast, 185g tepid milk, 500g raisins, 75g chopped sweet almonds, 20g chopped bitter almonds, 70g candied lemon peel, 15g candied orange peel, grated peel of 1/2 lemon, 1 pinch of salt, 1/2 vanilla pod, 1 pinch of ground cinnamon, 1 pinch of ground cardamom, 1 pinch of ground mace. Preparation: Sift some of the flour onto the work surface and make a well in the centre. Break up the yeast, add a little of the milk and sugar and mix to a loose dough. Dust with flour and leave to rest for approx. 15 mins. Next work to a firm dough adding the rest of the flour and milk and the butter cut into pieces. Leave the dough to rest in a warm place for approx. 20 mins. in a bowl covered with a tea towel. Mix the other ingredients well and knead them into the "stollen" mixture. Allow to rest for another 20 mins. then shape into a "stollen" and make two grooves lengthways. Place on a greased baking tray and bake in a preheated oven at 160 degrees C for between 35 and 50 mins. Once cooled, spread generously with melted butter. Leave for 2-3 weeks and then dust with icing sugar before serving.
Pharisäer:
Ingredients: coffee, a swig of rum, whipping cream (100g) and a teaspoon of sugar Make a strong black coffee in a tall glass and add the rum. While the coffee is brewing, mix the sugar with the cream and whip until stiff. Use this to crown your drink and then sit back and enjoy.
2011 Christmas Markets & Fairs:
- Mittelalterlicher Weihnachtsmarkt zu Neu-Ulm (Medieval Christmas Market)26-Nov-2010 - 02-Jan-2011, Ulm/Neu-Ulm (Baden-Württemberg)
- Christmas Fair26-Nov-2010 - 12-Dec-2010, Waiblingen (Baden-Württemberg)
- Haller Weihnacht (Christmas of Schwäbisch Hall)26-Nov-2010 - 23-Dec-2010, Schwäbisch Hall (Baden-Württemberg)
- Sternlesmarkt (Christmas market)26-Nov-2010 - 27-Dec-2010, Ettlingen (Baden-Württemberg)
- Weihnachten im Schloss (Christmas at the Palace)25-Nov-2010 - 05-Dec-2010, Tettnang (Baden-Württemberg)
- Christmas Fair25-Nov-2010 - 23-Dec-2010, Aalen (Baden-Württemberg)
- Märchenhafte Weihnachtsstadt (Fairy-tale Christmas City)25-Nov-2010 - 23-Dec-2010, Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg)
- Christmas Market25-Nov-2010 - 22-Dec-2010, Reutlingen (Baden-Württemberg)
- Weihnachtsmarkt am See (Christmas Fair by the Lake)25-Nov-2010 - 22-Dec-2010, Konstanz (Baden-Württemberg)
- Hildesheim Christmas market24-Nov-2010 - 27-Dec-2010, Hildesheim (Lower-Saxony)
- Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market)24-Nov-2010 - 23-Dec-2010, Stuttgart (Baden-Württemberg)
- Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market)24-Nov-2010 - 23-Dec-2010, Mannheim, Universitätsstadt (Baden-Württemberg)
- Der besondere Weihnachtsmarkt (The Special Christmas Market)24-Nov-2010 - 23-Dec-2010, Mannheim, Universitätsstadt (Baden-Württemberg)
- Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Fair)09-Dec-2010 - 19-Dec-2010, Rottweil (Baden-Württemberg)
- Mittelalter- & Weihnachtsmarkt (Medieval & Christmas Market)23-Nov-2010 - 22-Dec-2010, Esslingen am Neckar (Baden-Württemberg)
- Barock-Weihnachtsmarkt (Baroque Christmas Market)23-Nov-2010 - 22-Dec-2010, Ludwigsburg (Baden-Württemberg)
- Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market)23-Nov-2010 - 23-Dec-2010, Offenburg (Baden-Württemberg)
- Christkindelsmarkt (Christkindlesmarkt Christmas Market)23-Nov-2010 - 26-Dec-2010, Baden-Baden (Baden-Württemberg)
- Sternlesmarkt (Christmas Fair)09-Dec-2010 - 19-Dec-2010, Bietigheim-Bissingen (Baden-Württemberg)
- Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market)22-Nov-2010 - 23-Dec-2010, Freiburg im Breisgau (Baden-Württemberg)
- 39. Goldener Pforzheimer Weihnachtsmarkt (39th Golden Pforzheim Christmas Market)22-Nov-2010 - 22-Dec-2010, Pforzheim (Baden-Württemberg)
- Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market)10-Dec-2010 - 12-Dec-2010, Gutach (Schwarzwaldbahn) (Baden-Württemberg)
- Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Fair)10-Dec-2010 - 12-Dec-2010, Schrozberg (Baden-Württemberg)
- Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market)10-Dec-2010 - 12-Dec-2010, Tübingen (Baden-Württemberg)
- Ulmer Weihnachtsmarkt (Ulm Christmas market)22-Nov-2010 - 22-Dec-2010, Ulm/Neu-Ulm (Baden-Württemberg)
- Sinterklaas Festival in the Dutch Quarter11-Dec-2010 - 12-Dec-2010, Potsdam (Brandenburg)
- Christmas Market02-Dec-2010 - 29-Dec-2010, Göppingen (Baden-Württemberg)
- Märchenhafter Weihnachtsmarkt (Fairy Tale Christmas Market)02-Dec-2010 - 05-Dec-2010, Niederstetten (Baden-Württemberg)
- Potsdamer Sternenmarkt (“Star Market”)03-Dec-2010 - 05-Dec-2010, Potsdam (Brandenburg)
- Bergweihnacht (Christmas on the Mountain)03-Dec-2010 - 05-Dec-2010, Bad Nauheim (Hesse)
- Häfler Christkindlesmarkt (Christmas Fair)03-Dec-2010 - 23-Dec-2010, Friedrichshafen am Bodensee (Baden-Württemberg)
- Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Fair)03-Dec-2010 - 19-Dec-2010, Tauberbischofsheim (Baden-Württemberg)
- Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Fair)03-Dec-2010 - 20-Dec-2010, Mosbach (Baden-Württemberg)
- Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas market)03-Dec-2010 - 05-Dec-2010, Sankt Blasien-Menzenschwand (Baden-Württemberg)
- Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market)04-Dec-2010 - 05-Dec-2010, Maulbronn (Baden-Württemberg)
- Mittelalterliches Weihnachtsdorf (Medieval Christmas Village)04-Dec-2010 - 12-Dec-2010, Osterburken (Baden-Württemberg)
- Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Fair)04-Dec-2010 - 05-Dec-2010, Schöntal (Baden-Württemberg)
- Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market)04-Dec-2010 - 19-Dec-2010, Viernheim (Baden-Württemberg)
- Krongut Bornstedt: Romantic Christmas market27-Nov-2010 - 26-Dec-2010, Potsdam (Brandenburg)
- Christmas Fair27-Nov-2010 - 04-Dec-2010, Buchheim (Baden-Württemberg)
- Adventsmarkt und Adventskalender (Advent Market and Advent Calendar)27-Nov-2010 - 06-Jan-2011, Gengenbach (Baden-Württemberg)
- Altdeutscher Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Fair in the old German style)26-Nov-2010 - 12-Dec-2010, Bad Wimpfen (Baden-Württemberg)
- Christmas Fair26-Nov-2010 - 21-Dec-2010, Bruchsal (Baden-Württemberg)
- Öhringen - Ein Wintermärchen (Öhringen - A Winter Fairy Tale)26-Nov-2010 - 19-Dec-2010, Öhringen (Baden-Württemberg)
- Christkindlesmarkt (Christmas Fair)26-Nov-2010 - 19-Dec-2010, Ravensburg (Baden-Württemberg)
- Christmas fair26-Nov-2010 - 19-Dec-2010, Schwäbisch Gmünd (Baden-Württemberg)
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