This past Christmas one of my customers, Arthur Fleiss, ordered several stollen and sent me a story about his connection with this festive bread. His mother was from Chemnitz, Saxony, where stollen originates and she recalled the preparation of stollen by the family cook in the lead up to Christmas and Chanukah during her childhood in the 1920s. A dozen stollen were walked down to the local bakery on a little wooden handcart to be baked and the loaves were then given as Chr
