A cylindrical, layered cake baked on a spit for Christmas. At regular intervals during the cooking an additional layer of batter is painted on until up to 14 layers have been added. When cool it is decorated with chocolate fondant icing to look like bark so that it resembles a tree trunk.

Cottonseed oil

A little roll with a distinctive cut in the top.

A modern, semisoft blue cheese with a spicy flavour made in southern Germany from pasteurised cow’s milk. It has a soft, white, penicillin rind and a supple, creamy ivory paste spattered with blue mould. In fact the name of the best known brand, Cambazola, is derived from Camembert/Gorgonzola.

Bavarian. From the region of southern Germany around Munich. Potatoes and cereals are the main crops and many pigs and cattle are farmed. The area is famous for its beers.

"Bavarian cream." A cold dessert of thick egg custard and whipped cream set in a mould, variously flavoured, often served with fruit. This is a sort of upstanding mousse, unmoulded.

Bavarian soup dumplings

Shredded cabbage cooked with apples and wine.

A Bavarian dish of veal and liver dumplings, quite large, served with sauerkraut. As someone who does not speak German I rather hopefully thought these might translate as "Bavarian love noodles". But no.