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Stollen Day

Stollen

Jane is pleased with herself – she has made a giant Stollen to help the Quimper Hittys celebrate Stollen day, which happens in Dresden every year on the Saturday before the second Sunday in Advent.  The celebration is in remembrance of both the Butter Proclamation of 1491 in which the pope decreed that the bakers of the city could use butter instead of oil in their cake-making; and also the making of the first giant stollen in 1730 which used 3,600 eggs, 326 churns of milk and 20 hundredweight of flour.

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