Making Stollen

The Christmas baking has begun!!!  Last evening, we started the process of making the dough for the German bread stolen.  We got the glass bread bowl out, and started the two-day process of preparing the dough, letting it rise, refrigerating it overnight, and then rolling it out, shaping it into loaves, letting it rise again, and then baking it.  It is worth the work once the lovely, buttery loaves come out of the oven and are garnished with white icing and candied cherries and citron.