The sweet midwinter: Christmas cake with marzipan & glace fruits By Skye Mcalpine Published: 00:03 GMT, 6 December 2020 | Updated: 00:03 GMT, 6 December 2020 This is my mother’s recipe and I’ve made it every year for the better part of my life. Glacé fruits can be tricky (and expensive) to buy in the … Read more
Cardamom Buns with Cream and Marzipan By Signe Johansen Published: 00:02 BST, 28 June 2020 | Updated: 00:02 BST, 28 June 2020 An almond-rich marzipan – one with a 50 per cent almond content or more – gives the best flavour Enriched yeast buns (semlor) scented with cardamom are an essential part of Scandinavian baking. … Read more
There must be something in the water of the river Trave that encircles Lubeck. This tiny delight of a medieval city, an hour from Hamburg, has produced three Nobel Prize-winners: the writers Thomas Mann and Günter Grass, and the former German Chancellor Willy Brandt. It’s so alluring that, in 1705, J. S. Bach walked 250 … Read more