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Make your own bread guys for St. Nicholas Day!

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Bread Guys a.k.a. Weckmänner or Stutenkerle ©Laurel Decher, 2021 In Germany, you can buy these in every bakery at this time of year: Weckmänner or Stutenkerle or “bread guys” (as they are called at our house). In the Rhineland part of Germany, people eat these for St. Martin’s day. At our house, we have bread […]

Happy Day Before St. Nicholas Day!

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These “Bread Guys” are in a Luxembourg bakery. ©Laurel Decher, 2019. Would your family like to celebrate St. Nicholas Day this year? At our house, it’s always been a nice start to a busy month. Making Stutenkerle or “Bread Guys” is a fun, easy, and reasonably healthy after-school activity on December 5th. Afterwards, the kids […]

Prince Nero goes to Luxembourg?!?

St. Nicholas Day Small bread baked in the shape of gingerbread men in a bakery window

Prince Nero made it to Luxembourg with the help of his friends at SCBWI Book people know that books are a doorway to adventure so it shouldn’t be a surprise that I got to visit a whole new country because of the Seven Kingdoms Fairy Tales. Unlike Prince Nero, I didn’t get lost. Because I […]