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Gingerbread


Hugo und Paula Freund in New York (Still from the film "Paulas Nürnberger Lebkuchen - Made in the USA")

Bill Freund: "And somehow my parents got to know a confectioner, I presume they paid him for it, and he not only gave them the recipe, for that is not enough - making Nuremberg gingerbread is very complicated. You have to learn how, and my mother took lessons back in her kitchen in Nuremberg."

Narrator, off-screen audio: "After completing her training, Paula set off with her family on the difficult path to American exile. Besides seven dollars in cash and a few belongings, they also had something quite valuable in their luggage: the recipe for making original Nuremberg gingerbread."

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