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Oct. 6th, 2004 08:49 pmFrom Sabrina Welserin's cookbook c 1553
151 To bake good Lebkuchen
Take first a pound of sugar, a quart of clear honey, not quite a third quart of flour, take two and a half ounces of cinnamon, one and a half ounces of cloves, two ounces of cardamom. Cut the other spices as small as possible, the cinnamon sticks are ground as coarsely as possible. Also put ginger therein and put the sugar into the honey, let it cook together, put the flour in a trough, pour the cardamom into it first, afterwards the ginger and the other spices
My recreation, I cut the recipe down to a quarter
Pre-heat oven to 350
Ingredients
1 cup honey
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon ginger
1 Tablespoon cinnamon
2 1/2 cups GF flour
2 teaspoons cardamon
1/2 teaspoon cloves (should a a whole teaspoon but I ran out)
Method
Add honey and sugar to a saucepan, heat to just a boil over low heat, stiring frequently. Add ginger and cinnamon to honey/sugar mixture. In large bowl, mix one cup flour with cardamon and cloves. Add hot honey mixture and mix well. Dough will be quite sticky. Add rest of flour 1/2 cup at a time until dough is stiff and forms into a ball.
Grease and flour a large cookie sheet which has an edge to it. Dump dough onto sheet and with well greased hands, spread dough evenly over sheet, leaving a gap between dough and sheet edge.
Place in oven and decrease temperature to 300 degrees. Bake for 15 minutes or until dough has a matte, not glossy appearance and is slightly browned (if you can even tell from all the spices!).
Let cool on sheet for about 5 minutes and then using a knife, cut into squares but don't the cookies from the pan yet. When cookies are almost cool, then carefully remove them from pan.
Comments:
These are almost a kind of candy versus what I usually think of as a cookie. However they are quite tasty and would make good structural walls for gingerbread houses! They definitly are a dippable cookie and could handle quite a bit of abuse. They remind me very strongly of a cinnamon cookie that I had in Japan. The Japanese have been making these thin cinnamon cookies since 900 something, and they taste very similar to these Lebkuchen.
151 To bake good Lebkuchen
Take first a pound of sugar, a quart of clear honey, not quite a third quart of flour, take two and a half ounces of cinnamon, one and a half ounces of cloves, two ounces of cardamom. Cut the other spices as small as possible, the cinnamon sticks are ground as coarsely as possible. Also put ginger therein and put the sugar into the honey, let it cook together, put the flour in a trough, pour the cardamom into it first, afterwards the ginger and the other spices
My recreation, I cut the recipe down to a quarter
Pre-heat oven to 350
Ingredients
1 cup honey
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon ginger
1 Tablespoon cinnamon
2 1/2 cups GF flour
2 teaspoons cardamon
1/2 teaspoon cloves (should a a whole teaspoon but I ran out)
Method
Add honey and sugar to a saucepan, heat to just a boil over low heat, stiring frequently. Add ginger and cinnamon to honey/sugar mixture. In large bowl, mix one cup flour with cardamon and cloves. Add hot honey mixture and mix well. Dough will be quite sticky. Add rest of flour 1/2 cup at a time until dough is stiff and forms into a ball.
Grease and flour a large cookie sheet which has an edge to it. Dump dough onto sheet and with well greased hands, spread dough evenly over sheet, leaving a gap between dough and sheet edge.
Place in oven and decrease temperature to 300 degrees. Bake for 15 minutes or until dough has a matte, not glossy appearance and is slightly browned (if you can even tell from all the spices!).
Let cool on sheet for about 5 minutes and then using a knife, cut into squares but don't the cookies from the pan yet. When cookies are almost cool, then carefully remove them from pan.
Comments:
These are almost a kind of candy versus what I usually think of as a cookie. However they are quite tasty and would make good structural walls for gingerbread houses! They definitly are a dippable cookie and could handle quite a bit of abuse. They remind me very strongly of a cinnamon cookie that I had in Japan. The Japanese have been making these thin cinnamon cookies since 900 something, and they taste very similar to these Lebkuchen.