At Christmas, Jack is missing his father who left home to find work, and unhappy that the cookies his mother is baking are for the needy at church, until she tells him the story of how Christmas cookies originated in the Middle Ages as a way to tell people about the Nativity. Includes a recipe for springerle.
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