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Posted: Nov 10 2014 at 1:04am | IP Logged Quote St. Ann
Has anyone heard of a tradition of serving only a special Advent bread during the advent Sundays and saving the cookies all for Christmas? And do you have a special recipe for such a bread?
I have found Austrian sources and it just might be a fruit/nut bread. I wonder if Maria von Trapp mentions it in one of her books?
I am looking into this for our family and trying now to find a recipe.
Fruitcake has such a bad reputation    

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Posted: Nov 10 2014 at 1:55pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM
This is very interesting and would like to know more as well.

This Catholic Culture article talks about the making of breads during Advent, but doesn't sound specifically like what you are wondering about.


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Posted: Nov 10 2014 at 2:15pm | IP Logged Quote ekbell
While I don't know of this tradition, the Company's Coming - Muffins and More cookbook has a nice Fruit and Nut quickbread which I bake for the children (my fruitcake has a bit too much brandy poured over to be suitable ).

1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla flavoring
1/2 tsp almond flavoring

2 1/8 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cups glazed fruit
3/4 cups currents or raisins
1/2 chopped almonds

Cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs. Stir in rest of wet ingredients.

combine dry ingredients and add to wet, stir to moisten.

Put in greased loaf pan and bake for 1 hour at 350 F.







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Posted: Nov 10 2014 at 2:51pm | IP Logged Quote SeaStar
This sounds like a lovely tradition. I have not heard of it before.
I am tempted to make my own special Advent bread... adapt a cinnamon roll recipe, perhaps. Fruitcake would not go over well here.

Or maybe we will do an "Advent bread of the week" for each Sunday.
Gingerbread one week, etc.

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Posted: Nov 10 2014 at 3:58pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
I haven't heard of a special bread, but I have heard of saving the cookies until Christmas. Florence Berger talks about that...how hard it was to do the baking and have to wait until Christmas.

It seems if you are matching the same kind of time/tradition, then the bread would be a nourishing healthy loaf, maybe a little sweet for a Sunday to break the fast, but nothing overly festive until Christmas.

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Posted: Nov 10 2014 at 5:52pm | IP Logged Quote MichelleW
My mom didn't even start baking cookies until Christmas Eve...but we had lots of people to help in our family. We didn't put up the tree until Christmas Eve either. I have to say that I really loved that. There was such a clear division between the Advent Season and the Christmas Season. (sigh).

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Posted: Nov 10 2014 at 9:35pm | IP Logged Quote Kristie 4
We don't have baking until Christmas day- at least at home. Then we eat lots!!

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