Christmas cookie
Christmas cookies ( schweiz.: Weihnachtsgüetzi, Christmas cookies, etc.) are mainly sweet pastries that are eaten during the Advent season. Examples are cookies, gingerbread, stollen, fruit bread, Förtchen, Cinnamon, vanilla or almond biscuit.
For Christmas biscuits are many durable long-life baked goods made of gingerbread or shortbread, and larger industrial manufacturers bake these products often already in July or August - in the household, the time of baking, however, coincides with the time of enjoyment. A sharp distinction from general winter pastry is hardly possible; retailers already offering from September traditional Christmas baked goods such as gingerbread, wafers, gingerbread and dominoes, which neither name are still partially by the packaging design be instructed Christmas cookies.
History
Excavations and early pictorial representations show that there was already baking ritual at fixed times in pre-Christian times. The origin of today's Weihnachsgebäcks probably lies in the medieval monasteries. To commemorate the birth of Jesus exquisite pastry was common. Also, the tunnel was a monastic Advent pastries. Also recipes for the gingerbread developed in the monasteries.
The Holy Hildegard von Bingen described the positive effect of nutmeg and pepper in gingerbread nuts on the mood.
Cookie
The name cookie is the diminutive of course, a " flat-shaped cake ", named in southern Germany Platzerl, Brötle, Gutsle, Läuble, Switzerland Biscuit, in dialect Güetzi, biscuits, gutzi and similar. Often also generally sweet pastries such as cookies, candy and the like is considered cookies.
At Christmas cookies are baked traditionally used mainly in families. The production of various cookies species differs greatly: Cookies, which are manufactured from rolled out pastry, can be customize with different Ausstech forms, Springerle and speculoos be transmogrified. Other types of biscuit are shaped by hand: rolled and shaped like vanilla, pretzel shapes, rings or Bethmännchen, or from Dough sprinkled like shortbread cookies. Often cookies are named after an important ingredient: aniseed cookies, cinnamon stars, coconut macaroons, in Switzerland there is next to cinnamon and aniseed cookies called Chräbeli nor Mailänderli and Brunsli.
Gingerbread
Gingerbread, gingerbread also, are usually somewhat larger pastries from gewürzhaltigem, dark dough. They differ for example by using sweeteners ( sugar-candy, honey or syrup) or by decorating ( with sugar or chocolate sauce, with almonds and candied fruit ), some varieties are baked on wafers (many Nürnberger Lebkuchen ). In many areas it is estimated gingerbread for Christmas. In the Polish city of Toruń ( Thorn earlier ) are known, the Thorner KATARZYNKA.
Christmas Stollen
Stollen baked goods are made of heavy dough. Today, they are offered as almond, butter, marzipan, persipan, nut or Quark Stollen. The most famous Stollen is the so -called Dresdner Stollen, which is made according to a precisely predetermined recipe.
Other christmaspastries
More cake-like christmaspastries example, fruit bread, Linzer Torte, increasingly is also the Italian Panettone Christmas season to offer.
Although " apple in pastry " or other forms of baked apples are not a pastry in the strict sense, they are to be mentioned here, since they are often eaten during the Advent season.
Some varieties of Christmas cookies have proved so popular that they are now available all year round in bakeries. These include Hilda rolls and sugar donuts ( fondant ).