Melting puddles of spicy honey goo...

[mmcnealy]

I'm in the middle of trying to recreate Sabina Welserin's recipe for Lebkuchen, number 163. Currently I have melting puddles of spicy goo on a cookie sheet in the oven. Not really quite the effect I was going for...

I think this recipe is going to require a bit more work than I was anticipating....

Comments

[heike.livejournal.com]

The link doesn't work.

That sounds like the Lebkuchen from a modern recipe I made for Christmas. My mother's suggestion was adding a bit of flour, but I really don't know that the period method might be.

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that, its fixed now. Its here, http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Sabrina_Welserin.html

I think its going to require more than just a little bit of flour, probably closer to a couple of cups.

[mistresshuette.livejournal.com]

I concur with Heike. Some more flour. Are you also putting them on Oblaten? That will keep them from sticking to the pan and are the period way of making Lebkuchen.

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Yup, I agree, more flour is definitely needed. The recipe doesn't call to place them on Oblaten, just a well floured wood board.

[arabella23.livejournal.com]

Heh, we cheated. We just bought it in a HUGE tin from the Commissary store at the base. It came in this beautiful chest from Germany and is filled with like 20 different variations of it! So far I don't have a favorite, I like them all, which is hard on my weight watchers!

[heike.livejournal.com]

Oo, my grandmother used to send us the tin from LebkuchenSchmidt.

[pinkdiamond.livejournal.com]

Spicy honey goo, heehee. Thanks for the warning, I'll have a look at the recipe more closely:)

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Recipe 151 works fine, its 163 which has the problem. Not sure if its a bad translation, a bad transcription or if there's an error in the original recipe, but there's a serious lack of flour in it.

[katzechicx.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I miss lebkuchen. Expecially around xmas.