Take coffee cake dough, add one-fourth cup of washed currants.  Let rise in warm place, then toss on floured board.  Divide into three or four equal parts, roll each part into a long strand and work the strands together to form one large braid.  Place braid in form of a circle in greased baking-pan or twist the braid to resemble the figure eight, pretzel shape.  Let rise again in a warm place and bake in a moderate oven one-half hour or until thoroughly done.  Brush with beaten eggs and sugar, sprinkle with a few chopped almonds.  Return to oven to brown slightly.

STOLLEN

Sift two pounds of flour into a bowl and set a sponge in it with one cake of compressed yeast, one teaspoon of salt, one pint of lukewarm milk and one tablespoon of sugar.  When this has risen, add one-half pound of creamed butter, a quarter of a pound of seeded raisins and one-quarter of a pound of sugar, yolks of four eggs, four ounces of powdered almonds, and the grated peel of a lemon.  Work all well, beating with the hands, not kneading.  Let this dough rise at least three hours, roll, press down the centre and fold over double, then form into one or two long loaves, narrow at the end.  Brush the top with melted butter, let rise again and bake three-quarters of an hour in a moderate oven.

APPLE CAKE (KUCHEN)

After the pan is greased with butter, roll out a piece of dough quite thin, lay it in the pan, press a rim out of the dough all around the pan and let it rise for about ten minutes.  Pare five large apples, core and quarter them, dipping each piece in melted butter before laying on the cake, sprinkle bountifully with sugar (brown being preferable to white for this purpose) and cinnamon.  See that you have tart apples.  Leave the cake in the pans and cut out the pieces just as you would want to serve them.  If they stick to the pan, set the pan on top of the hot stove for a minute and the cake will then come out.

CHEESE CAKE OR PIE

Take one and one-half cups of cheese, rub smooth with a silver or wooden spoon through a colander or sieve, then rub a piece of sweet butter the size of an egg to a cream, add gradually one-half cup of sugar and the yolks of three eggs, a pinch of salt, grate in the peel of a lemon, one-half cup of cleaned currants and a little citron cut up very fine.  Line two pie-plates with some kuchen dough or pie dough (See “Coffee Cakes (Kuchen)"), roll it out quite thin, butter the pie-plates quite heavily, and let the dough in them rise at least a quarter of an hour before putting in the cheese mixture, for it must be baked immediately after the cheese is put in, and just before you put the cheese into the plates whip up the whites of the eggs to a very stiff froth and stir through the cheese mixture.

CHERRY CAKE