![]() Sieve the flour and baking powder into a large bowl and add the ground almonds and very finely chopped raisins and mixed peel, combine well.Īdd the egg yolk to the honey mixture then pour this over the dry ingredients, combine well to make a fairly firm dough. Melt the butter, honey, sugar and water in a small saucepan then add all the spices, lemon zest and cocoa, stir really well then leave to cool. Hundreds and thousands, silver dragees, sugar stars.etc. We would wrap up in fifteen layers and venture out to the snow covered markets, and on some of the stalls were beautifully iced and decorated, heartshaped Lebkuchen, ranging in size fron mouthsized morsals to some bigger than a dinnerplate. Pfeffer nuss and Gingerbread, Gluhwein and candied nuts, and the fantastic savoury aroma of Bratwurst and Bockwurst, the sights and smells of these wonderful markets embedded themselves in my subconscious and I love to make these traditional spiced cookies every year, sometimes making a hole at the top of the prebaked cookie and threading them with brightly coloured ribbon to hang on the tree. Christmas just wouldn't be the same without them. When I was a child my family lived in Hannover in Germany for a few years, and Christmas was just the most magical time. ![]()
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