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I found another holiday thing that we have done for years. Cards, and our little advent calendar trimatree; the two holiday things I really like. Now there are three.

I found fruit stollen at our bakery today.

They didn't make any last year and so I had to settle for a kind of high-rise-with-icing fake one from another place; Jensens, the local upscale market where the elite meet to eat. It was more like a coffee cake masquerading as a stollen.

I have had fruit stollen for the holidays ever since I was a little kid. My dad was an A&P store manager and he would always bring the last stollen home with him on christmas eve. Maybe two. Stale isthe best. They looked just like this photo; maybe less goopy candied fruit on top; confectioner's sugar instead. But, the same height and look in the bread.

I managed to get stollens at other A&P's for years then from Acme stores when I worked for them and then I learned how to make my own.

I don't bake anymore but if I did I would sure be making stollen for the holidays.