Mein grossmutter, on my dads side made Schwartzwalder Kirschtorte. (Black forest chocolate cake with cherries) and Appel Strudel, AND something she called Shnecken and many, wonderful Christmas cookies but one I never liked were the hard anise cookies that would break your front teeth if you weren't careful. I CAN'T think what they were called. They used a roller with designs on it.
I was the oldest child of the oldest child and I got to sit on my grandfathers hassock on Christmas Eve, a place of honor, and all of the other kids were having a ball in the basement.
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