sweet like honey
IT’S HARD TO SAY HOW LONG the tradition of baking honey biscuits at Christmas goes back. In its native Germany, it’s certainly many hundreds of years old. And in South Australia’s Barossa Valley, so heavily settled by German immigrants, farmhouse kitchens have been turning out honey biscuits, or Honigkuchen, for nearly 200 years.
“First-generation Johann Christian Henschke settled at Lobethal, in the Adelaide Hills, in 1842,” says viticulturist Prue Henschke of
