[Sca-cooks] Old Springerle Recipes?

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

The earliest reference I see for these is from 1850:

https://books.google.com/books?id=peXZE1C8OkYC&dq=tirgeli&pg=PA222#v=onepage
&q&f=false
 
They were also known as tirgeli, which seems to be the older word. Grimm  
says they were a specialty of Swabia, made in the shape of a hare, but gives 
no  dating.

Nor does the combination of sugar, anise and flour come up in  early 
searches, though it's not an unlikely one - anise was sometimes used in  French 
breads in earlier centuries and presumably in German ones too. But that  is no 
guarantee they were used in a particular cookie.
 
jC
 
Jim  Chevallier
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FRENCH BREAD HISTORY:  Seventeenth century bread
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2016/02/french-food-history-seventeenth-century
.html









In a message dated 1/7/2017 10:41:45 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
alyskatharine at gmail.com writes:

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