A Going Away Party for Twix - and Happy Birthday Daddy!!!
Hi Mommy,
Anja said that Twix, her very first Toy Voyager guest, would soon travel to Maelle in Belgium, so we all threw a going away party for him.
Anja got us some real Hessian and Southern German specialties for the party:
Apple wine, the Hessian special drink and Laugenbrötchen (lye rolls).
OK, lye rolls sounds disgusting, and the dough is really dipped in food-grade lye, but these are really really tasty!
Lye Pretzel recipe
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| Two stories about the lye bath, told by Peter Mangold, have one thing in common, that the lye dunking was accidental, but the results were so good that the innovation became commonplace. One story is that the bakery's cat knocked them into a vat and there was no time to make a new batch, another story claims that the lye water was mistaken for sugar water and brushed onto the pretzels. |
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However that may be, once the rolls or pretzels are baked, they are safe to eat, and they are delicious.
Of course, the apple wine was tasty, too 
After our dinner, we had a big surprise for Twix. We had bought him a piece of strawberry cake!
Being a nice guy, he insisted on sharing it with us
What a lovely party! 
And I ate a big piece of strawberry cake in your honor, too, Daddy! Happy Birthday!
Hugs
Garry
