Photos Tagged: Striezelmarkt
Striezelmarkt - Christmas Market - Germany - Dresden - Christmas - stollen - bakery -
Striezelmarkt - Christmas Market - Germany - Dresden - Christmas - stollen - bakery -
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Three busy bakers work the Stollen booth at the rear of the Striezelmarkt all day long. This man was responsible for shaping the dough and weighing each batch (and its invidivual ingredients) to ensure equal weight and consistency with the other loaves.Read more about European Christmas Markets and Reflections on Dresden's Christmas Market.
Stollen, originally known as striezel (from which the market takes its name), is a traditional Dresden Christmas sweet bread. It is full of raisins and other candied or dried fruit and topped with powdered sugar. Many bakeries and stalls sell the cake already packaged, but the bakers in this stall put in a full day baking it fresh - gathering the ingredients, carefully shaping and weighing the dough and baking the loaves a wood-fired oven. Its sweet smell wafts through the market, drawing crowds all day long.Read more about European Christmas Markets and Reflections on Dresden's Christmas Market.
A view of the main Christmas market on the Altmarkt (old market square), facing the Kreuzkirche.Read more about European Christmas Markets and Reflections on Dresden's Christmas Market.
