[Sca-cooks] Lebkuchen and 1486

[Johnna Holloway]

Rick Steves in the new book Rick Steves' European Christmas
which I just bought on impulse
mentions that Emperor Friedrich III gave away 4000 lebkuchen
decorated with his image in 1486.
I tried searching for this on the web and came up with
http://www.region.nuernberg.de/fileadmin/region/intranet/RegioPress/RP1102.pdf.

[PDF] KULTSTÄTTE EINER POLITISCHEN RELIGION 
<http://www.region.nuernberg.de/fileadmin/region/intranet/RegioPress/RP1102.pdf>File 
Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML 
<http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:UdD8JyyP9McJ:www.region.nuernberg.de/fileadmin/region/intranet/RegioPress/RP1102.pdf+lebkuchen+1486&hl=en>
... es in den Nürnberger Annalen verzeich- net, ließ anläßlich des 
Reichstages im Jahre 1486 an 4.000 Kinder die sogenannten Kai- 
serlein-Lebkuchen, auf denen ...
www.region.nuernberg.de/fileadmin/region/intranet/RegioPress/RP1102.pdf 
- Supplemental

There's an article on Lebkuchen buried in the newsletter.

Johnnae