about point sung and boiler is the sugar low on top. it's ok high proof rum and then from bait until the sugar life is melted from the recipe with red wine, orange. like you have certain spices, i rum on and mall. why one environment ah, there is nothing like a mug of fluid song and bowl to warm your heart on cold days. a trip to lu back at christmas time just wouldn't be as sweet without a visit to cafe, need a vega. here you can get a taste of the festive holiday confection. lou back is famous for martha pan. ah, ah, ah. not the date. march. the pan consists mainly of 2 ingredients, almon and sugar. and we are neither echo still make it the traditional way guns i

puppies. when they give the mars the pan that roasted aroma, we still roasted an old, copper kettle, was kept, and then we add a secret ingredient like line as to which i can reveal that exist. but a small lexus mission does reveal the firm's history. in 18 o, 6, johan georg needa opened the cafe. soon afterwards he started to make martha pan, often pressing it into mould like these. and this is his original recipe. though unfortunately, the secret ingredient is written on the back. mars the pan can be formed into virtually any shape like these life sized figures. for instance. incidentally, the man with the top hat is johan gay or nida himself. there's even a replica of blue back to old town made almost entirely of ma the

patio so these are the 3 must do that lu, backs christmas market sample some lou back mars pam sip. some boy a song and bola and enjoy the flare of the old town with german christmas markets are also a great place to find a tree decorations and not all of them traditional christmas pickles. for example, this is a trend that comes over to us from the united states. the pickles are really popular. they're apparently because they're thought of as typically german, but you won't find them on many trees. here dw reporter halley rollinson set out to solve the christmas pickle. mystery.

ah, yes. the christmas pickle. a beloved in time on her german tradition. at least that's what i was told. but i'm in berlin and cody b. germany's biggest department store. and i can't find a single one in these christmas trees are all the paper. oh, but luckily i brought my own. but let me back up where i come from the united states. many people think that all germans hang a single pickle on their 1st mystery. even many american families follow this so called german tradition. so according to this tradition, the 1st person to find the christmas pickle in the christmas tree, yes, an extra gift. but to be honest, i haven't seen or heard of a single christmas pickle in germany since i've lived here. so i'm going to ask some germans doing their christmas shopping if they've heard of it. and read, are you, hey, this ticket on your christmas tree this year?

i not spell stuck, that must be a tradition elsewhere. it's not a german tradition. pardon me? do you mean a christian? strong cucumber is not my favorite vegetable room. the christmas bunker, the christmas pickle? no. 9. what a christmas picking up will give wants do you do? wouldn't i even had to explain it to santa and germany. in fact, 12016 survey found that 91 percent of germans had never heard of it. so if this tradition isn't german, where does it come from? and how did it end up in the united states? with a little christmas magic, i'm headed to the small german mountain village of now share in their india to explore that a bit more. if anyone knows the origin of a particular glass ornament, it's the people of lucia. they've been blowing glass, harrison's 1597 and producing ornament since the mid 19th century glass blemish ion hopper land is the 4th generation to take over his family christmas ornament. business. he hand makes and sells glass ornaments,

including the christmas pickle to buyers worldwide. but actually, he only learned about the tradition in recent years and a visit to california. i was asked also, you also make christmas pickle think i just laughed. but then when i lost me the same question until a 3rd and, and i started wondering what is it with these christmas? pickles it on. someone explained that its tradition and germany hung a pickle on your christmas tree. but i'm thought every american knows this was modeling knobby and germany does kind little. oh, that made him curious. so he came home to search through his grandfather's glass molds from the 1930s shop, not the that my found this gurkin an old. since then, we've been producing these glass pickles. oh, now he sells pickle. ornaments to customers in places like japan, norway, switzerland, and of course the united states. but if he just learned about this, tradition, them, where did the story start?

well, there are handful legend surrounding the origin of the christmas pickle. one sense that a prison guard took pity in a starving german born soldier during the american civil war and allowed him to eat a single pickle. with this act of kindness, he was able to survive and began hanging a pickle on his tree each year. some say it was this man frank w bulworth, who needed a gimmick when he began importing ornaments from germany to the u. s. in 1880 s. but maybe i need to ask someone who knows this christmas town the best. so i'm meeting la shamir, nor but sits man at elliott's park last winter. founded in 1853. this is the oldest still existing glasses in town, mister mer 0. the tradition of the christmas pickle is determined by not school go home. we were confused assistant, a christmas pickle up. what's that? that's what we learned that abroad and people are convinced the christmas pickle is an essential german christmas item made. and lucia is personally,

i think some clever marketing guy invented this. one site is or person's family, or lucia has been making glass pickle, square feet, simply because foreigners believe it's a local specialty of motor convicts to kroger. okay, so i still don't have an exact answer, but there might still be hope. i'm going to talk to gary ross, a local who came across the pickle tradition in his research for a magazine and marcia glass. so what can you tell us about the history of the christmas pickle help b should not be washed. i did some research and found out that a some family tradition of giving that person. i'm found the special christmas tree decoration on the tree, the 1st or largest gift on the screws, so that the as the getting to the on dark. that's how the christmas pickle story originated her. why not squiggle mock? so we may never know exactly where this pickle to listen comes from, but it certainly is a little bit of fun. and me, one day the germans will know what i'm talking about. but until then, i have an idea i

our christmas theme tour of germany reaches berlin. the streets and squares of the capital are festooned with twinkling lights. and most of the cities christmas markets are open again this year till we counted more than 40. we take you along to the christmas market and friend of the red city hall in the downtown district of meta fir, lynn is the 3rd stop on our christmas tour this year. there are more than 40 christmas markets, open in the capitol. the one in front of the hotel, hothouse, or red city hall, and the district of meta is one of the prettiest. like every year, visitors can lace up their skates and glide around the neptune fountain. the only thing missing the daily shows normally performed here

but another crowd favorite is back again. the 50 meter tall ferris wheel. it's panoramic gondolas are heated. so riders stay nicely warm and have a view over the whole market. in berlin, everything's a bit larger than life, like this huge christmas pyramid. it was crafted in the ask of bigger or, or mountains in the state of saxony, an area known for its traditional christmas ornaments. here, miners, wood carvings, reflected their longing for light. handicrafts from the ants could be ago, are sold at many markets, including in berlin. these are pyramids, incense, smokers, known as white mention,

and even figures of the miners themselves. another well known motif is this little church. does this year does live his, his life and charge a motif used in many things, a guns on candle arches in pyramids o. as the pyramid itself, i z hyphen is effectively the capital of the ascii banga or, and the way of st. james, the salt root, the silver road, that's all cross ins. if'n do before that that's likely why this little church is as famous as cologne cathedral lydia. by nickos, his overwhelmed villa coronado. many germans placed these candle arches by their windows at christmas. they're called sped bogan, after the german word for floating. here's why it does it's in. it's to go with the minus. i hadn't gone to, they came out of the mine. they'd hang them minus lamps over the entrance back mother thing that made it look like a floating, illuminated og treatment. when daniel says,

that's where the ship okens shape came from and done. who'd have thought that old traditions would play such a big role at a berlin christmas market today? but there's more you can even watch an artist, blacksmith at work, or find hand made jewelry. if you still need to buy a christmas present or to and of course in berlin, we checked out a mold wine stand on your behalf. here they also serve me like the celts once drank them. it me is a honey wine that's been around for $3000.00 is the kind we have this year is dryer and stronger than usual. it always depends on the honey that's used. one is job in the vault. if you think you're seeing things after a couple of glasses,

that's not because of the me. santa claus really is flying over the christmas market. live and in person here in berlin. oh you are 3 must dues for the christmas market by berlin city hall take a ride on the ferris wheel. marvel at wood, art from the ask a bigger and try some me. oh, but santa claus always has the last word. full of i have a merry christmas to least navi double. ah ah, ah ah,

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