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Since I started the new blog "Walking Through the Year", I am trying to following each and every day as they unfold. I have several books on the theme, and on December 7th I read about St. Ambrosius, a bishop in Myra around 300 years after Christ was born. I did not blog about Ambrosius on that day, but he stayed in my mind for the rest of that day, and again the next. His name was familiar to me somehow, but why? Then, suddenly, I knew. My father in law used to bake some special breads for Christmas which he called Ambrosius Breads.
Father in law had an old cookbook which all of us wanted after his death. The lucky one to get it was my niece Tone. A perfect choice, since she is a born baker :-) Terje and I did get another of his "kitchen books" though, a tiny little orange notebook, filled with recipes. Many cut and glued from magazines, but also quite a few handwritten ones. I was sure the Ambrosius Bread recipe was in the books Tone got, but decied to flip through the orange one anyway. And guess what I found there :-) Yes! The recipe.
I was so happy, I almost ran to the grocery store to get what I lacked, and last night I was fianlly able to bake the Ambrosius breads.
Just as we went to bed, 4 huge bread were finished. And today I woke up to the most christmassy fragrance in the whole house. Especially perfect since a good friend came over for lunch.
