[Sca-cooks] Pretzels and braided bread

[Patricia Dunham]

I think others have said it before, but ... Danger-Danger-Will-Robinson, the Time-Life Foods of the World series is a tertiary (or quaternary, or further) source. It is VERY old by modern culinary history standards (ca. 1970) and was NOT compiled by people with any particular culinary authority, in spite of who the editors may have gotten to write introductions or commentaries.  Looks like somebody found some authority for this "krendel" thingie, but, well, tertiary source at best. Use for ideas and as a starting point, but not for single-source documentation.

chimene (teh opinionated, 8-))

On Feb 25, 2013, at 1:44 PM, Stephanie Ross wrote:

> 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
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