Germany

Streuselkuchen with cherries and pudding cream was the German-style crumb cake from the family oven. Dr. Oetker, founded in Germany in 1891, makes ...

Apple fritters on a cool afternoon, with apples from the yard folded right into the batter, is a small autumn comfort worth keeping. This is Dr. Oe...

Marble cake baking on a Sunday afternoon meant the Dr. Oetker box coming out of the pantry. Dr. Oetker, founded in Germany in 1891, makes this Marm...

In Germany and Austria the lilac wrapper has needed no explaining since 1901, and the Triple bar is the one people open when a single kind of choco...

The Hauchzarte Herzen carton is a fixture of German Valentine's and Mother's Day - wafer-thin heart-shaped tablets in a flat gift box, bought on th...

Waffelini is the bar that goes into a German school Brotdose or a glovebox - five in a sleeve, near enough one for each day of the week. Milka Waff...

Jacobs Mild 3in1 is the box that lives in a Polish or Baltic office cupboard for the people who want coffee without the edge on it. It is an instan...

Choco Pause is the packet a French or German household keeps for the four-o'clock break, when the children come in the door and something has to be...

The instant cappuccino sachet is the small luxury of a workplace kitchen in Ukraine - hot water, a spoon, and a head of foam that arrives without a...

Groovy Crunchy Brezel is Ritter's pretzel square, and in Swabia - pretzel country, and Ritter's own home ground - putting salted Brezel pieces into...

The 3in1 stick is Ukrainian office and petrol-station coffee: tear the corner, tip it into hot water, and the morning is handled for small change. ...

Jacobs Monarch is the name that simply means coffee in a Ukrainian kitchen - the vacuum brick with the aroma valve, squeezed once on opening so the...

The Nussklasse bars are Ritter's whole-nut line - the ones a German shopper reaches for when the nut should be seen and heard, not just tasted. Rit...

The mint square is the Ritter that lives in the glovebox and the desk drawer - dark chocolate, a cold green filling, and the same snap-off corner a...

Ritter Sport Joghurt was a German first when it arrived in 1971 - nobody had put yoghurt inside a chocolate bar before, and it landed squarely in t...

In Poland the small brown Maggi bottle lives on the table beside the salt and pepper, and a few drops go into rosol, over pierogi, into tatar - it ...

A Sunday roast in southern Germany means Knodel beside it, and the boil-in-bag box is what a household reaches for when nobody has time to grate po...

In a German kitchen the Fix sachet is what a Tuesday looks like - minced beef in the pan, the bag torn open over it, and the sauce done before the ...

The Milch-Schnitte is the after-school bite half of Europe grew up on — pulled cold from the shop fridge and gone before the bag was zipped. Kinder...

Maoam is what German kids chant at the kiosk counter, and the Bloxx cube is the shape it takes when one piece has to last the walk home. Maoam Blox...

Milka's Oreo-filled cookies are the packet that turns up at a Balkan children's birthday next to the homemade cake. This is Milka Cookie Sensations...

Milka Oreo White is the bar teenagers in Skopje and Belgrade pick off the kiosk shelf when they want something sweeter than the plain purple one. T...

The big purple slab is the one a Balkan family buys for the whole table, not the pocket — the bar that comes out after Sunday lunch and goes around...

The purple Milka bar with whole hazelnuts is the one German and Balkan children learn to snap along the squares so the nuts stay whole. This is Mil...