21 Nov A short history of stollen
Did you know the tradition of making stollen goes back more than 600 years? The first official mention of stollen was in 1474, but some historians think the traditional German Christmas cake dates back as far as 1329. Stollen’s most famous city is Dresden, where Christmas stollen has been baked since the 15th century and where every year is held the annual Stollenfest. On the Saturday before the second advent, a stollen weighing between three and four tonnes is paraded in a...