Dresden stollen takes the cake – answers
true/false/no evidence
- This is the largest stollen ever. NE: – it is the largest in the world (now) but don’t know about ‘ever’
- This cake is baked especially for Christmas. T: it’s a Yuletide cake (Yuletide =Christmas)
- The icy weather is stopping many people from attending the festivities. NE: we have no information about this
- The ceremony went ahead despite the weather. T: the weather didn’t ‘stop the festivities’
- A ‘slab’ is cylindrical. F: it is a large, flat piece of food (often cake)
- This year’s temperatures have helped to produce a good stollen. T: they have helped with the aroma and the blending of the ingredients
- The stollen must be eaten within a week. NE: the cake has been standing for a week to mature but we don’t know how long it will keep
- All the ingredients come from Spain. F: the raisins are from Turkey and the butter from Germany
- The cake took 30 hours to make. F: it took 5 hours to make using 30 stollen bakers
- Charities provided the icing. F: ‘the icing on the cake’ is a joke, it is an expression meaning the best part of all! The cake is being sold and the money will go to charity.
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