Real Lebkuchen [General]
2012 Dec 20
Lebkuchen + clementines + espresso = Christmas breakfast
I have made Lebkuchen and Pfeffernusse with really good results. A great cookie to make that has a long life too...if you hide them. :)
Growing up, besides the whole family togetherness thing, Christmas WAS a chest of assorted Lebkuchen. I still have a few Schmidt small and large tins that I use for storage purposes. ww2.lebkuchen-schmidt.com
Continental Delicatessen (big fan of this shop) at 57 York Street in the Byward Market has a decent selection of these packaged cookies for the holidays...and many other reasons to visit (hint: sausage).
www.continentaldelicatessen.com
I have made Lebkuchen and Pfeffernusse with really good results. A great cookie to make that has a long life too...if you hide them. :)
Growing up, besides the whole family togetherness thing, Christmas WAS a chest of assorted Lebkuchen. I still have a few Schmidt small and large tins that I use for storage purposes. ww2.lebkuchen-schmidt.com
Continental Delicatessen (big fan of this shop) at 57 York Street in the Byward Market has a decent selection of these packaged cookies for the holidays...and many other reasons to visit (hint: sausage).
www.continentaldelicatessen.com
2013 Nov 8
The Lebkuchen recipe I use is this one:
www.epicurious.com
I also add 1/2 tsp each of allspice and aniseed and swap out one T of water for rum in the glaze. For anyone who has tried the original Nürnberger Lebkuchen, there's something a bit boozy (which is why I went for them first as a kid) with the dark chocolate covered ones. That rum addition to the glaze does it.
And note: they really do improve with age and last to a month (and freeze well).
My last box of Küchle Back-Oblaten ran out a few Christmases ago. Still a great cookie without but, as the question on finding oblation came up recently, I think I'll have to get some for this year.
My best bet on where is as noted above: Continental Delicatessen
p.s. A booth I'd like in Ottawa.
(Photo of a Nuremberg Market lebkuchen booth from Wives with Knives)
www.epicurious.com
I also add 1/2 tsp each of allspice and aniseed and swap out one T of water for rum in the glaze. For anyone who has tried the original Nürnberger Lebkuchen, there's something a bit boozy (which is why I went for them first as a kid) with the dark chocolate covered ones. That rum addition to the glaze does it.
And note: they really do improve with age and last to a month (and freeze well).
My last box of Küchle Back-Oblaten ran out a few Christmases ago. Still a great cookie without but, as the question on finding oblation came up recently, I think I'll have to get some for this year.
My best bet on where is as noted above: Continental Delicatessen
p.s. A booth I'd like in Ottawa.
(Photo of a Nuremberg Market lebkuchen booth from Wives with Knives)
zymurgist
Anywhere around here to get real home made Lebkuchen?