Strenesse Strenesse 2001

... and an old kitchen cabinet from 1930. My grandma was a master not only in cooking, but also in baking cakes. For special holidays, she baked "Frankfurter Kranz" (do you know it?). We kids were allowed to do the lesser tasks and then lick the bowl.
The kitchen cabinet, a monster from around 1930, had many doors and drawers. The drawers were made of ceramic, with handles. On one side of the cabinet, she stored dried herbs in the drawers, and on the other side, cake spices. There was the drawer with vanilla sugar (scraped pod, soaked in sugar for years), cinnamon, sugar, flour, semolina, etc., and the compartments with sweet and bitter almonds (whole!). Peeling and chopping them was the task of us grandchildren (after they had been blanched). Grandma was meanwhile baking a Gugelhupf. The recipe is not revealed, family secret! Just one thing: raisins were added, which had soaked in a liter of rum for 2 days! One piece of cake was enough, and you had no worries anymore!
She cooked real vanilla pudding (not the stuff from a packet!). And with a lot of cream, butter, and some of the chopped almonds, a buttercream was made. The cold Gugelhupf was cut in half twice, filled with vanilla-almond cream, and then covered with vanilla-almond buttercream. The remaining almonds were roasted in good butter and thrown all around the cake!
Can you now imagine how the scent smells, or do you need the pyramid? A woman wearing this scent smells exactly like a "Frankfurter Kranz"!