Lebkuchen...
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup molasses
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. grated lemon rind
2 and 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. cloves
1 tsp. allspice
1 tsp. nutmeg
1/3 cup chopped citron
1/3 cup chopped nuts
METHOD - 1. Mix the honey and molasses and bring to a boil, then cool thoroughly.
2. Add the brown sugar, well beaten egg, lemon rind and juice.
3. Sift the flour once before measuring.
4. Sift the flour, soda, cinnamon, cloves, allspice and nutmeg, and stir into the honey and sugar mixture. Add citron and nuts.
5. Let stand overnight in the ice box (refrigerator!).
6. In the morning roll out to 1/4 inch thickness and cut with oblong cookie cutter about 3&1/2 x 4&1/2 inches. Place cookies very close together on greased baking sheet and bake.
7. Immediately on removing from oven spread icing over all the cookies before removing them from pan.
TIME - Bake 15 minutes.
TEMPERATURE - 400°F., moderately hot oven.
AMOUNT - 3 dozen cookies.
Glazing Icing for Nurnberger or Lebkuchen.
Boil 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water until first indication of a hair appears, 230° F. Remove from fire, stir in 1/4 cup powdered sugar and use for glazing cookies.
AMOUNT- Icing for 3 dozen cookies.
Note - If icing becomes stiff before cookies are all covered, reheat slightly, adding a bit of water, so that it can be spread easily with a brush.
FROM: The “Weis Recipe Outfit” Box on display at the Canton Township Historical Museum, Canton, Michigan (Donated: 1984), circa 1921.
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup molasses
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. grated lemon rind
2 and 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. cloves
1 tsp. allspice
1 tsp. nutmeg
1/3 cup chopped citron
1/3 cup chopped nuts
METHOD - 1. Mix the honey and molasses and bring to a boil, then cool thoroughly.
2. Add the brown sugar, well beaten egg, lemon rind and juice.
3. Sift the flour once before measuring.
4. Sift the flour, soda, cinnamon, cloves, allspice and nutmeg, and stir into the honey and sugar mixture. Add citron and nuts.
5. Let stand overnight in the ice box (refrigerator!).
6. In the morning roll out to 1/4 inch thickness and cut with oblong cookie cutter about 3&1/2 x 4&1/2 inches. Place cookies very close together on greased baking sheet and bake.
7. Immediately on removing from oven spread icing over all the cookies before removing them from pan.
TIME - Bake 15 minutes.
TEMPERATURE - 400°F., moderately hot oven.
AMOUNT - 3 dozen cookies.
Glazing Icing for Nurnberger or Lebkuchen.
Boil 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water until first indication of a hair appears, 230° F. Remove from fire, stir in 1/4 cup powdered sugar and use for glazing cookies.
AMOUNT- Icing for 3 dozen cookies.
Note - If icing becomes stiff before cookies are all covered, reheat slightly, adding a bit of water, so that it can be spread easily with a brush.
FROM: The “Weis Recipe Outfit” Box on display at the Canton Township Historical Museum, Canton, Michigan (Donated: 1984), circa 1921.
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