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Make Your Sweetheart a
German Lebkuchen
Valentine Heart Gingerbread Cookie
.. from Recipes From a German Grandma ...
There are numerous recipes for Lebkuchen (Life-cakes); most of them called for honey. This one uses brown sugar, which is much easier to work with.
Preheat oven: 350 ° F
2 ½ C. brown sugar
3 large eggs or 4 medium eggs, beaten
¼ lb. chopped citron
1 ½ C. chopped almonds or walnuts
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. cloves
3 C. flour
¼ tsp. soda
(or 2 tsp. baking powder)
Sift flour with the spices and soda or baking powder. Add the brown sugar to the beaten eggs and beat well. Stir in the flour mixture, and add citron and nuts. Roll the dough out to a square ½ inch thick.
Cut into Large Heart Shapes (approx 7" wide).
Place on a greased baking sheet or other baking pan. Bake at 350 ° for 20-25 minutes, or until done. When half-cooled, cut into squares. Ice with plain or lemon-flavored glaze, or pipe a decorative pink or red trim and decorate with a red heart and green dots. Say I Love You in German, by piping on "Ich Liebe Dich".
Lebkuchen Variations:
Often main ingredients of lebkuchen are:
Honey, flour, sugar, eggs, hazelnuts, walnuts, almonds, candied orange and lemon peel, marzipan, spices (cinnamon, ginger, aniseed, cloves, pimento, coriander, cardamom)
For variations:
Combine 1 cup raisins and 1 cup water; bring to boiling; remove from hear. Stir in 1/3 cup salad oil or shortening. Cool to lukewarm. Stir in 3/4 cup sugar and 1 slightly Beaten egg. Sift together 1 3/4 cup sifted flour, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, 1/4 teaspoon allspice. Beat into raisin mixture. Stir in 1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans.
Pour into greased 13 x 9 x 2-inch pan. Bake at 375 degrees F. for 20 minutes, or until done. (For a thinner cookie, bake on greased 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1-inch jelly-roll pan for 12 minutes.)
When cool, dust with confectioners sugar and cut into bars.
(You also may add candied 1/2 cup candied fruit to the recipe, if desired.)
.. for more about the German Holiday Tradition of Lebkuchen ...
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