Cookie mania in the Mühlviertel: two sisters fell into a baking frenzy 20 years ago. As of November 16, they now produce 67 different varieties. This year the material cost 900 euros.
The most difficult are the Sissi and Franz cookies, which consist of layers of jam, nougat, marzipan, cookies on the top and bottom and decorated on the outside and covered with gold leaf,” says Petra Brunner (52) from Sonnberg in the Mühlkreis. She and her sister Elfi Seigmann (58) from Salzburg have been maintaining a particularly beautiful custom for 20 years. From November 16, they will bake cookies together for a week. What started with ten to fifteen varieties has grown into a real ‘cookie mania’ in twenty years.
In the Christmas bakeryi
This year the two Christmas cookie professionals produced a total of 67 variants, with specialties such as white Ischler, poppy flowers, orange segments, Black Forest cookies and Berlin bread. “The classics are of course also included,” says Brunner. “When we start, it will be from 8 a.m. to twelve or one o’clock in the morning.”
“Hot nights”
But the “hot nights” at the oven also have their price. And that is meant quite literally, because the two Mühlviertlers make many sacrifices for their shared hobby, which is actually a ritual. “The material cost us more than 900 euros. Butter in particular has become more expensive. We spent 127 euros on the 58 packs of butter alone,” says Brunner.
But what do the chefs do with their treasure?
After all, they produce about a hundred of each variety. “We don’t sell anything, we give everything away. To family, friends and acquaintances who have done good things for us in the past year. Most of them are already waiting for their filled cans,” says Brunner: “And then there is nudism, that is, the cookie tasting rounds of strangers.” By the way, she is not a sweetheart at all: “I hardly eat cookies, I don’t like them. Basically just gingerbread and generally I prefer sour things.”
Source: Krone
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