"In the Christmas bakery
There are so many delicious things
Between flour and milk
Some jerk makes
A huge mess
In the Christmas bakery
In the Christmas bakery"
Hello, dear German learners!
Today, we talk about German songs again
and with Christmas just around the corner,
let's talk about Christmas carols.
Today we are talking about the song
"In the Christmas bakery".
Have fun!
The song "In the Christmas bakery"
is a popular song
from the children's songwriter Rolf Zuckowski.
Rolf Zuckowski is one of the best known
and commercially successful
German musicians.
He came up with this song
when he was on his way to his family.
Before that, he phoned his family
and his wife told him
"We are baking cookies."
This is a very popular and old tradition,
to bake cookies for Christmas.
That belongs to Christmas
almost like the Christmas tree.
That is something,
which I really enjoyed
when I was a kid: baking cookies.
And of course we
also liked singing this song,
"In the Christmas bakery".
Together, we will
have a look at the lyrics
and I will explain to you
what it means exactly.
"In the Christmas bakery
There are so many delicious things
Between flour and milk
Some jerk makes
A huge mess
In the Christmas bakery
In the Christmas bakery"
Yes, this stanza is mostly clear
but there are a few bits
which may require explanation.
So, "in the Christmas bakery
there are so many delicious things".
If something is "delicious",
then it means, "it tastes good."
That's an adjective
which people like to use.
If someone asks you
"Does it taste good?
Do you like the food?",
then you can say:
"It is delicious!"
And a treat is a food,
mostly a candy,
which tastes very delicious.
That's a treat.
"Between flour and milk
Some jerk makes
A huge mess"
What is a jerk?
Well, I have never heard that word
(except in this song),
but according to the dictionary
"Knilch" means:
an unpleasant man.
An unpleasant man
is called colloquially
a "Knilch".
A mess, what is that?
Well, the verb "to spill" means
that you let a liquid
drop down somewhere
and so causes stains.
That means "to spill".
When I eat something
and I eat very chaotically,
I eat without being careful
then I'll spill something.
I may be spilling on my shirt.
For example, when I'm in Berlin
and eat a kebab,
then there's the danger
that the sauce is spilling on my shirt.
That is not so good.
And "spilling" is the noun,
that is made from this verb.
From the ending ("Kleckerei") you notice
that it is a noun.
So a spilling is the idea
the concept of a person spilling.
So if somebody spills a lot,
then it's a mess
and that happens in the bakery.
So in bakery people bake,
there we have exactly the same idea,
that a verb becomes a noun.
From "to spill" to "spilling"
and from "to bake" to "bakery",
both times a verb becomes a noun.
Well, in the Christmas bakery,
some elves or children are spilling
and that then becomes a mess.
The second stanza.
Incidentally, the first stanza was the chorus
and now we come to the second stanza:
"Where did the recipe go?
Of the cookies we love?
Who has the recipe
Displaced?"
Of course, "to displace" means
that someone brings one thing from one place
to another place.
"To haul" actually means
that the object has a lot of weight,
that it is very difficult
to move this object.
If I - or if Santa Claus
has a big sack on his shoulder,
then he hauls this sack,
because the sack is very heavy.
But you can also display a recipe
– especially when it then rhymes.
"Not me"
"You maybe?"
"Neither did I"
This is the third stanza.
Of course, people are asking each other now
in the Christmas bakery,
who has displaced the recipe.
"Not me"
"You maybe?"
"No, me neither"
The next stanza:
"Well, then we have to work it out"
(We have to do it.
= We have to work it out.)
"Just bake and improvise
Turn the oven on (oh yes!)
And go!"
So.
"Well, then we have to work it out":
That means we have to make it.
When you work out something,
then you try,
then you start doing it.
That means "to work it out".
If you work out something,
then you have managed doing it,
then you are successful.
"Just bake and improvise":
That's a nice german phrase!
"To follow your gut" means
that you do it without a recipe.
The "snout" is the nose of an animal.
So you follow your gut,
if you use your sense of smell,
for example.
Following your gut.
When the nose is the snout of an animal,
then you can imagine
that you follow your sense of smell.
And ... "Turn on the oven",
that's the third line – very clear.
"Oh yeah!",
Voice from the background: "Oh yes!"
Someone is happy, someone says:
"Yes, do it.
Turn on the oven.
That's good."
"And go!" Is the fourth line of the stanza.
"And go!", that means:
"Come all and join us."
If you go do something,
then that means
that you go there
and do the thing, become active.
Then the chorus comes again:
"In the Christmas bakery
There are so many delicious things
Between flour and milk
Some jerk makes
A huge mess
In the Christmas bakery
In the Christmas bakery"
So. Now the next stanza:
"Don't we need chocolate
Sugar, nuts and succade
And a little cinnamon?
That's true"
Yes, those are great ingredients!
Put in a little bit of chocolate,
sugar, nuts and succade –
all ingredients that make the baked goods sweeter
and tastier.
What does succade mean?
Well, succade is a sweetener.
It consists of at least 65% sugar
and is made from lemons.
One uses the sugar of lemons
to make succade
and then you can sweeten baked goods.
In the next verse
more ingredients are mentioned:
"Mix butter, flour and milk
Have a taste in between
And then the egg comes (watch out)
[passes by]"
So, "mix butter, flour and milk",
there the lyrics is describing
almost a recipe.
"Have a taste in between",
that means,
that you take a little bit,
put it in the mouth and taste,
if it is already good
or if you need more ingredients.
"And then comes the egg.
Watch out! ", it comes from the background
and then the last line: "by",
so that it rhymes nicely with "egg"
and that's why
the person in the background
maybe also shouts "Watch out!",
because an egg passes by;
maybe it is even being thrown.
Then the chorus comes again:
"In the Christmas bakery
There are so many delicious things
Between flour and milk
Some jerk makes
A huge mess
In the Christmas bakery
In the Christmas bakery
Please step aside
Because we need space to knead
Are the fingers clean?
You pig"
"Please step aside,"
that's a saying
which is very useful
and you hear it more often.
"To step aside" means
that you go away,
in fact, to the side.
I'm standing here,
someone wants to go here,
then I step aside,
I go to the side.
"Because we need space to knead";
we need a bit of space;
we have to make a bit of room
in the bakery
and we have to knead the dough.
Because in the previous stanzas
we mixed butter, flour and milk,
added an egg,
so we have dough
and you have to knead this dough.
But before you knead the dough,
you should wash your hands!
That's why the song asks:
"Are the fingers clean?"
"Pure" is a synonym for "clean":
Are the fingers clean?
"You pig!"
Someone apparently has
not washed their hands yet
and that's why a person says
to the other: "You pig!"
Clean hands are important when baking!
And the penultimate stanza
before the last chorus:
"Once the cookies we cut
Are on the baking sheets
We wait eagerly
Burned"
That should not happen,
that the cookies burn – no, no, no!
Oh dear, that can happen as well
in the Christmas bakery,
that something falls to the ground.
"Are the cookies we cut
[Once] on the stove sheets"
So you cut cookies.
You have a dough
which you spread,
you spread that out
and then you have these cookie shapes
and you press the shapes into the dough
and this is called "cutting cookies",
you cut the cookies.
And when you're done,
you put these cookies
on the baking sheets
or on a baking sheet
and waits eagerly.
You wait
until the cookies are ready
in the hot oven.
Then the last line of the stanza:
"Burnt!"
That means
that you waited too long
and the cookies have become black.
That is not so good.
But if you pay attention,
of course, the cookies don't burn.
And the last stanza is the chorus again:
"In the Christmas bakery
There are so many delicious things
Between flour and milk
Some jerk makes
A huge mess
In the Christmas bakery
In the Christmas bakery"
That was "In the Christmas bakery"
by Rolf Zuckowski,
a song from the year 1993.
At that time I was just three years old
and maybe even back then, I,
as one of the first children,
sang this song.
Thank you for watching!
I hope you enjoyed this Video.
I wish you a lot of fun
while singing this song,
especially when it's Christmas.
See you later.
Bye!
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