The first Monday after the 6th of January they have the tradition here to make sausage bread.

For the vegetarians or let’s say for the sweet tooth there will be apple bread: which is 1 whole apple backed in pastry in the oven.

Apple Bread

The true meaning if this ancient old habit has been long replaced by the Christian celebration of the 3 kings that visited Christ the 6th of January… Completely detached from all tradition and culture.

Yet it is said that in the cold winter months after the new years celebration, people collected all the left over meat they found and backed it in a bread, or made a kind of sausage first that ten would be backed in a bread.

Why there is an apple in the bread is then not clear. But knowing how my mother used to store her apples just outside in winter: they started to become dry and wrinkled. Not the ideal apple to consume fresh but for sure ideal to put into pastry, tarts and the kind

Anyway, since our bakery retired as well and the successor is as good in making bread as in making bricks… we made our own sausage breads and apple breads.

Sausage Bread

And since we don’t have a meat shortage these days, we love to put in 2 sausages in stead of 1