LEBKUCHEN RECIPE

Nuremberger Lebkuchen has a 400 year old history. It started with monks baking honey Lebkuchen and slowly other ingredients were added to it. The top quality is the Elisen Lebkuchen. Where the name Elisen came from nobody knows.

Elisen-Lebkuchen is a German gingerbread biscuit and it is becoming more popular. It was first baked by monks in the Middle Ages but being so tasty it soon spread and people enjoyed it.

Ingredients

150 g butter

250 g sugar

4 eggs

2 teaspoon cinnamon

2 teaspoon cacao

1 pinch of ground gloves

200 g lemon-peel

200 g orange-peel

300 g ground hazelnuts

200 g sultanas

1/4 l milk

500 g self-raising flour

4 drops of bitter almond oil

Sheets of rice paper

Caster sugar

Mix butter, sugar, eggs and whisk it until creamy. The spices, lemon-peel, orange-peel, ground hazelnuts to be put into the mixture. Put the sultanas into the flour to break the sultanas up and put it all into the mixture. Now add the milk and mix with a spoon.  Put the mixture onto the rice paper with a table spoon, with some space in between.

Bake it in a pre-heated oven of 200cC for 20 minutes.

The moment you take it out of the oven brush each with a mixture of a thickest paste made from caster sugar and water.

You should have about 30 big sized lebkuchen. I hope you enjoy it.