Sweet Things

Wow. July has just flown past! We have been so busy I’ve hardly had time to think – but I’m not complaining. We had a glorious trip to Zürich to see beautiful Lily and her wonderful mother Marianne, who spoiled us rotten as well as giving up loads of her time to show us around the enormous street party that is the ‘Züri Fäscht’. Not to mention she even took us out to Lucerne where we ended up being extras in some advertising Lily was filming for Swiss Air. Add to that eating far more fondue and amazing Swiss chocolate…

I was working in a small village out of Munich the other day, and when I went out to buy lunch at the local bakery I stopped dead in my tracks. There, sitting in the counter window was such a glorious looking, braided bread, staring up at me, begging to be bought and eaten. One bite and I was smitten, I knew I had to recreate this at home. Nußzopf (literally ‘Nut Plait’) is one of the many delicious things that can be made from a basic German ‘Hefeteig’ or yeast dough – basically a sweetened and enriched dough that…