Comments on: There’s still time to bake for a Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, and tasty lebkuchen https://thenewneo.com/2011/12/23/theres-still-time-to-bake-for-a-merry-christmas-happy-chanukah-and-tasty-lebkuchen/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:59:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: expat https://thenewneo.com/2011/12/23/theres-still-time-to-bake-for-a-merry-christmas-happy-chanukah-and-tasty-lebkuchen/#comment-298451 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:59:37 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=12081#comment-298451 SteveH,
I hope that fruitcake hadn’t been regifted for a decade or so before it got to you.

]]> By: Ed Bonderenka https://thenewneo.com/2011/12/23/theres-still-time-to-bake-for-a-merry-christmas-happy-chanukah-and-tasty-lebkuchen/#comment-298436 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:21:49 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=12081#comment-298436 Scott’s comment reminded me of Christmas in Nurburg (realize he was in Nurnburg). Thanks.
I’m gonna dig out the old slides I have of that. The city was decorated beautifully, and I remember having a photo of the girl behind the counter in the bakery.
Neo: you might enjoy this:
http://youtu.be/LOjFKBxpq14
Merry Christmas.

]]> By: SteveH https://thenewneo.com/2011/12/23/theres-still-time-to-bake-for-a-merry-christmas-happy-chanukah-and-tasty-lebkuchen/#comment-298431 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:10:45 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=12081#comment-298431 I know i’m getting old. I ate a piece of fruit cake and sort of liked it.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2011/12/23/theres-still-time-to-bake-for-a-merry-christmas-happy-chanukah-and-tasty-lebkuchen/#comment-298422 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:09:36 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=12081#comment-298422 Scott: if you read my recipe, you’ll find that I say this is not like the lebkuchen recipes you usually find, which I don’t much care for. I don’t know whether my ancestors adapted it to their own tastes, or whether this represents an older variant. But it’s quite different.

Maybe I should give it another name.

]]> By: expat https://thenewneo.com/2011/12/23/theres-still-time-to-bake-for-a-merry-christmas-happy-chanukah-and-tasty-lebkuchen/#comment-298421 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:01:03 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=12081#comment-298421 I confine myself to American baking and buy the German things or eat them at my friend’s houses. My husband and I have different favorites, so unless I want to eat a whole recipe by myself, I just buy. I think traditional German lebkuchen has more spices and the brown sugar is very different here. Your recipe sounds more interesting.

Like Scott, I am not crazy about Gluhwein, but it is fun to walk around the Christmas markets.

]]> By: Scott https://thenewneo.com/2011/12/23/theres-still-time-to-bake-for-a-merry-christmas-happy-chanukah-and-tasty-lebkuchen/#comment-298407 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:19:08 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=12081#comment-298407 I was in the Army for a couple of years in the ’80s, and spent my time stationed in Furth, Germany – basically a suburb of Nurnberg. Nurnberg hosts an annual Christmas festival in the city square called Christkindlemarkt. It is a tradition going back several centuries and attracts huge numbers of visitors each year — probably in the hundreds of thousands.

Anyway, that’s where I first tried lebkuchen and gluhwein (probably wrongly spelled). Gluhwein is a spicy wine served hot/warm. The locals raved about them both, but I didn’t care for either of them. The festival overall, though, was quite enjoyable. At least I’m glad to have attended it once.

Thanks for provoking me to recall memories I have not thought about in years.

]]> By: vanderleun https://thenewneo.com/2011/12/23/theres-still-time-to-bake-for-a-merry-christmas-happy-chanukah-and-tasty-lebkuchen/#comment-298400 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:47:38 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=12081#comment-298400 Be still my beating heart!

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