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Baking Disaster, A Stollen Tale

December 10th, 2006 at 02:33 pm

I found a recipe for stollen that was easily adaptable for vegan (just had to subsitute margarine for butter) and tried it last night. Anyone who is German or of German descent likely has heard of stollen - its a very rich yeast bread made at Christmas time. It is quite labour intensive to make as it is a yeast bread. Its filled with almonds, orange and lemon citron, raisons, currents(sometimes) and depending on the recipe marzipan.

Stollen was always part of my Christmas growing up. When I got older I took over baking it from my mother. In the stress of the last years I haven't made it at all. This year it was important for me make this.

It burnt when I was cooking it. The recipe was 375 for an hour. Crispy crunchy black on the outside. I did some websurfing and found other recipes at that temperature for 30 minutes and other ones at 300 for an hour. Joy of Cooking's recipe is 350 for 50 minutes.

I think I'll try again (after sampling a bit of the inside to see if I need to make ingredient substitions)

A picture of stollen shamelessly stolen from the web to show you what this looks like (mine being lump of dark brown/black).

Posted in That didn't go as planned | 3 Comments »

3 Responses to “Baking Disaster, A Stollen Tale”

  1. Thrifty Ray Says:
    December 10th, 2006 at 02:42 pm 1165761745
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    Looks/sounds very yummy! Don't you HATE misleading recipes?? Especially when it comes to labor intensive yeast breads!!! I hope your next one comes out poifect!

  2. StressLess Says:
    December 10th, 2006 at 03:48 pm 1165765703
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    Gosh, aren't some of those old-country recipes tough? My grandmother and then my parents would make these chocolate shell cookies, called Mushels or Musheln (there's a recipe for them Joy of Cooking). You make a meringue with almonds and grated chocolate, and then form them into shells in a little wooden mold. I tried making them myself one year--it's enough to drive you to drink.

    Good luck with the stollen. I'm lucky we don't have to worry about it being vegan. Our new tradition is my running to the Entenmann's outlet to buy them!

  3. beklpn Says:
    March 26th, 2007 at 12:42 am 1174869726
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    could you please tell me when Homer Laughlin is having their outlet sale this year? I can't seem to open their link.
    Thanks,
    Becky

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