Traditionally the German housewife will bake cakes for Yuletide in three different shapes: 1. Large Cake, 2. Gingerbread and Almond Biscuits, 3. Shaped Biscuits. The housewife should always be aware that the Yuletide baking has a special meaning. It should not only taste good, but it should be part of the meaningful celebrations. The cakes and biscuits should therefore be an expression of the great changes at the Winter Solstice, like the Yuletide Tree, the Jul Wreath and the candles. Therefore a good SS housewife should pride herself on keeping to the old recipes and shapes and rejecting all cheap and American factory produced goods.
The large cake, which is still served today with a candle in the middle, and the large flat cake are still to be found
in every house today.
Gingerbread cakes and biscuits, which taste so nice made with honey and syrup and which fill the whole house
with their delicious aroma, should be cut out in heart shapes, star shapes, or wheel shapes.
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The Jul Plates
Two wooden Jul Plates are shown carved with wheat motifs; many different carvings including Runic can be found, although
wheat motifs are amongst the most common; also shown are three wooden moulds -- one large and two small -- used to shape
biscuits
Eventually every SS household should possess all the wooden cutters for the almond biscuits.
The preferable shapes are:
1. The cockerel -- the announcer of day time
2. The boar -- boarmeat used to be eaten at Yuletide
3. The rider -- Wotan on his horse
4. The hunter -- Wotan
5. The spinner -- Lady Holle in fairytales; Frigga
6. The Tree Of Life
7. The human couple.
In addition hand formed biscuits should be made and formed in the shape of the Runic Letters. This is not at all
difficult if the dough is rolled into a long thick spaghetti. Runic Letters like the Swastika, the 4 spoke, 6 spoke,
or 8 spoke Sun Wheel, the Odal Rune in all different shapes, the pretzel, the Sun Spiral, and the horse shoe can
then be formed easily.
These cut out and hand formed almond biscuits should be used to decorate the Jul Wreath, they should hang on
the Yuletide Tree, and they should be found on the Yuletide table of every SS family.
