RecipeMuncher

As I mentioned, one of the moments that hit me hardest while reading Confections of a Closet Master Baker was when Gesine was talking about her mother’s favorite recipe, Zwetschgendatschi. She talks about baking this for her mother as she was dying from cancer, and she talks about baking this for a man who had first tasted it in Germany during World War II. It’s a short chapter, but I fought off tears as I read that her mother, who kept a very strict diet, made and ate an entire ta (...)