[Sca-cooks] Pretzels and braided bread

[Stephanie Ross]

Thumbing through the Russian Cooking Recipes in the Time-Life Series "Foods
of the World", there is a very interesting recipe for a bread called
"krendel" which is a twisted/braided type of bread that in the shape of a
pretzel and has fruits and nuts baked inside it. Google search has yielded
nothing but modern recipes for krendl/krendel bread, reportedly originally
from Germany. Anyone here heard of it, and could it possibly be period for
our uses? In Russia it is baked on Saint's/naming days as a version of
their birthday cake, I suppose.

AEschwynne