[Sca-cooks] German texts

[Kai D. Kalix]

Greetings Huette,
Pfefferkuchen. I honestly do not know where they originated, but I suspect
from Nuremberg, because they're a (sharper)variant of Lebkuchen. A quick
netsearch gave over 17700 links for Pfefferkuchen, including recipes from
Finland and Sweden.
Trude Ehlert states in her redaction of Sabina Welserin's Lebkuchen:
"If the spices are not powdered, the Lebkuchen will be sharper:
Pfefferkuchen." (Kochbuch des Mittelalters; Sabina Welserin 163)
Both Pfeffernüsse and Pfefferkuchen got their names because of their
sharpness, not becauuse there's pepper in either of them and not because
their somehow related.
Hoping to be of assistance,
kai

> 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

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