CHRISTMAS IN WURTEMBERG.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 52, 26 December 1907, Page 15

CHRISTMAS IN WURTEMBERG.

Christmas is one of the prettiest, and, of course, one of the most familiar of German festivals. As every- one knows the making of cake is the pressing business of the .holiday. Good housekeepers pride themselves on the number and variety of their -cakes. Just before Christmas the streets "are filled wi'h bareheaded maids (a servant never wears a hat when she is on duty, perhaps* because all heavy burdens are carried on tlie head), taking tins of different kinds of dough io the taker as for some reason the average German range does .not do well for calces, and they have to be entrusted io the baker, or confectioner. Anisbredchbn (aniseed cake), LebJaichcn (glazed ginger bread), Zimmesternchen, (cinnamon stars), Springerli, and many others are made by the hundreds, and a. j-litoful of 'different varieties given to every one who is in the habit ' of going to the house —to the teachers, _ to tfe postman, to the woman who brings milk and vegetables, to the child who delivers the newspapers; and all others.