The Silesian bakery Hutzelmann is a perennial favorite: the love of baking has been preserved in the family for 100 years. And their hit was and is Silesian poppy seed cake!
“Grandfather’s original recipe is in the safe,” reveals Elisabeth Hutzelmann-Hochreither (67), “and it has already traveled halfway around the world.”
Her grandfather, who ran a bakery in a small town near Breslau, emigrated to Berlin in the early 1920s. “He had twelve children and almost all of them later became bakers or butchers,” says the boss.
Just like her father Conrad. In the last days of the war his bakery in Friedrichshain was bombed. He sent his family on the last train to Austria to visit his uncle, who was a pastor. The father fled after him on his bicycle.
“From there he later went to Flensburg, where he worked in a bread factory, then to Hamburg, across the pond to England to my sister and then to Canada to my older brother,” says Hutzelmann. “Father wanted to open a German bakery in Toronto.” But after two and a half years he was drawn back to Berlin.
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In 1957 he opened his bakery in Charlottenburg. Always there: the recipe for the Silesian poppy seed cake. Elisabeth grew up in the bakery. There journeyman Alfons (78) baked into her heart. She fell in love with him: “He is my first great love.” They have been married for 42 years.
Her daughter Carmen (40) specializes in sweet petit fours and colorful Othello bowls. Hutzelmann’s recipe for success. “We only use real ingredients: real eggnog, real rum and a real love of baking.”
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