When someone mentions Vienna, what comes to mind are the city’s elegant konditorei, or pastry shops, where luscious cakes are showcased in spotless glass displays. Among the delicacies on offer; ...

There is apple in neat, thin slices; golden sultanas the size of pistachios; the warm Christmastide note of ground cinnamon and drift upon drift of snow-white icing sugar. There are crisp leaves of ...

2 pounds (905 grams) firm apples (about 5 to 6) Peel, halve, core and slice thin in one direction, then halve the slices crosswise, creating thin squarish rectangles of apples. Place them in a large ...