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Dresdner Weihnachtsstollen (Christmas Stollen/Cake) (German)

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Name: Deborah Wild
Class Year: 1997
Country of Residence: Tbilisi, Georgia (German, married to a Dane)

Why is this recipe great? What’s its backstory? 

Christmas is a big deal in our house. Apart from MHC elfing tradition I used to play Christmas elf (or nisse as one would call it in Denmark) for my friends in College, I loved playing Krampus for the German club and shared the German tradition of advent with my friends.

When I met my Danish husband and he told me he was atheist, my reply was, him not believing in God was not an issue, but Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, I’m afraid, were non-negotiable (both not traditions in his family).

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Joseph’s Cake (Applesauce Fruit Cake)

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Name: Marcia Brumit Kropf
Class Year: 1967
Country of Residence: USA

Why is this recipe great? What’s its backstory? 

This is a recipe passed down through four generations of women (that I know of) in my family. It is a recipe that passed from Europe to the U.S. and I am sharing it back again. Making it is an annual event in my family. This is a recipe from Margaret Heigert Joseph (1835-1906). She was born in Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany and immigrated to the U.S., settling in Glasgow, Howard County, Missouri. She passed the recipe to her daughter, Margaret Joseph Keehart (1862-1932) who passed it to her daughter, Maude Keehart Brumit (1894-1968) who passed it to her daughter-in-law, Patricia Patterson Brumit (1919-2008) who passed it to me. 

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