[Sca-cooks] Re:German texts

Huette von Ahrens ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 5 17:02:50 PDT 2004


Pfefferkuchen or pfeffernüße [n umlaut u scharfes
s e]?  I have made lebkuchen and pfeffernüße all
my life, but I have never heard of pfefferkuchen.
 What region of Germany is it from?

Huette

--- "Kai D. Kalix" <kdkalix at gmx.de> wrote:

> 
> Greetings Selene,
> I'm not sure if I would use Lebkuchen in this -
> the recipe specifies
> Pfefferkuchen wih are much sharper than
> Lebkuchen, because they use ungrated
> cloves &c and IIRC less sugar. Maybe you should
> make that up.
> glad to be of asssistance
> kai
> 
> > Dear Kai:
> > 
> > Thank you for this - I will have a lot of
> leftover Lebkuchen which will 
> > work wonderfully well for this.  You know,
> the hard kind that you give 
> > your kids to gnaw on during Christmas Morning
> services so they will stay 
> > quiet for a while.  I have another video
> shoot for a Christmas show 
> > tomorrow and don't really have a good use for
> the leftovers.  I don't 
> > think anyone will really want to eat them.  I
> could be wrong however, 
> > that happens VERY occasionally.   IN any
> case, thank you.
> > 
> > I'm sure we will be highly grateful for any
> help you can provide with 
> > medieval German cookery sources.  Don't
> forget non-cookbook literature! 
> >  The knights of old had to eat occasionally
> to keep up their mighty 
> > strength, and sometimes their tales mention
> what they ate.
> > 
> > Selene
> 
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