Arche wintry baking ingredients
When the autumn wind sweeps away the very last leaves from the trees the cozy time at home begins. In the tiled stove a fire is burning and you are surrounded by a blissfully warmth. The crackling and sizzling sound of the burning logs of wood is creating a wonderful atmosphere for reading. It's the perfect time to take a rest with a good book on your favorite reading chair. The evenings become quieter and now it is time to read all the books you have not yet read throughout the whole year. When first frostwork can be seen on the windows the cookie cutters are unpacked again as well. Especially in the last two months of the year it smells deliciously from out of the kitchen. Vanilla crescents, star-shaped cinnamon cookies, gingerbread, almond biscuits or potato cakes soothe the time before Christmas for both little and adult sweet tooth. And since the next beach vacation still is a long way off you can help yourself without any hesitation and a clear conscience. However it is a rather new phenomenon that the Christmas season offers so many delicacies and that the first gingerbread is already available in the shelves in October. A few generations back, hot punch and cookies were an exception even in the Advent season. Especially for the poorer part of the population they were anything but taken for granted.
A story that illustrates this particularly well is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It takes place in the London of the 18th century and is about the miser Ebenezer Scrooge. For him it's all about the money. He is blind for the hardships of the people around him. Only after Scrooge was visited by three ghosts who show him the past, the present and the future on Christmas Eve, he recognizes the important things in life. When Scrooge wakes up on Christmas morning and realizes that everything was just a dream, he promises to change the predicted future. He is reconciled with his family and visits the house of his employee Bob Cratchit with a big turkey. He increases the salary for his employee and gives donations for the poor ones in the slums of the city. A look into the future reveals that Mr. Cratchit’s seriously ill son Tiny Tim will become back healthy again and how much Ebenezer Scrooge enjoys being popular with the citizens of London. A Christmas Carol is an absolute classic. Although not everyone has read it, you will nevertheless know at least one of the many film adaptations.
Just like most stories of Dickens, this also lives from his grandiose portrait of the Victorian England. For the largest part of the population it was time full of deprivation. And for Christmas baking money had to be saved a long time before. But the bigger was the joy of each cookie and gingerbread underneath the Christmas tree. Today baked goods are often industrial mass-produced goods. Flavor enhancers and dyes guarantee a fast production and an almost embarrassing price. In the weeks before Christmas, a lot of families are looking forward most to the traditional baking at home. Because then it is still almost like in the times of Charles Dickens - apart from electric furnaces and stirrers. Newfangled gadgets are deliberately not needed. This art of simplicity of course requires more time and puts the skills of cookie baker to the test. The result however is much more delicious. Cakes and cookies taste only like what is really in them. And the baking ingredients are also available in organic quality. With Arche products ambitious baker get everything they need for wintery cakes and cookies.
With the Arche Weinstein Baking Powder both easy and more complicated doughs will succeed. It is perfect for Christmas cookies, Sunday cakes and other delicacies. With the natural vanilla sugar you give cookies and other pastries a magnificent vanilla aroma. The Arche Vanilla Sugar convinces with a perfect mixture of finely ground Bourbon vanilla and raw cane sugar. Of course it is also suitable for refining cream and sweet cream fillings. Arche Rice Malt with Barley gives your pastries a down-to-earth sweetness. Whether it is in gingerbread or in almond muffin, the brown syrup enriches your creations with a caramel-like flavor. For those who even want to bake something hearty in addition to the many sweet treats, there is the Arche Natural Sourdough. It supports the aroma of deliciously fluffy breads, rolls and baguettes. And they do taste in any season!
