[Sca-cooks] Lebkuchen

[Kerri Martinsen]

I used Sabina's Lebkuchen recipe for an A&S entry a couple of months ago.  I
started with the small amount of flour and had no luck.  I added more flour
to get the honey mix just to the point that I could handle it.
Then covered my hands in flour, dropped a spoonful in my hand and worked in
the flour as I rolled it out on a heavily floured board.

I did get a cookie shape - not cake like by any means.  More cracker like.
The later roll outs did hold their shape better due to more flour, but I
think the texture of the early roll outs was better.

Is it possible that her recipes just assumed that you would know to add a
lot of extra flour in the roll out process?

(I have process pictures of this project if anyone is interested)

Vitha
----
Lady Hrosvitha von Celle
Royal Baker, Kingdom of Atlantia
Shadewes Company, Northshield

On 4/9/04 7:51 PM, "Robin Carroll-Mann" <rcmann4 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On 9 Apr 2004, at 16:18, nickiandme at att.net wrote:
> 
>> I thought lebkuchen was supposed to end up as a intensely flavored taffy like
>> item. In the case of recipe 151 I thought it referred to the flour made of
>> the
>> ground spices rather than actual flour.
> 
> This is the recipe I used.  I don't think that "flour" can refer to the ground
> spices, since there is supposed to be almost a third of a quart of flour to
> one 
> quart of honey.
> 
> [snip]
>> I'd like to know the proportions you used on the ingredients to get cookies
>> out
>> of it.
> 
> I used the quantities below, and I did not get cookies out of it.  We ended up
> adding breadcrumbs, just to get something firm enough to be picked up.
> 
>> Kateryn de Develyn
>> recipes referred to follow.
>> 
>> 151 To bake good Lebkuchen
>> 
>> Take first a pound of sugar, a quart of clear honey, not quite a third quart
>> of
>> flour, take two and a half ounces of cinnamon, one and a half ounces of
>> cloves,
>> two ounces of cardamom. Cut the other spices as small as possible, the
>> cinnamon
>> sticks are ground as coarsely as possible. Also put ginger therein and put
>> the
>> sugar into the honey, let it cook together, put the flour in a trough, pour
>> the
>> cardamom into it first, afterwards the ginger and the other spices.
> 
> 
> Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
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