Lebkuchen

Name: Lebkuchen
Yield: Makes Twenty
Cuisine: German
Ingredients: 115 g/4 oz/1 cup blanched almonds, finely chopped; 50 g/2 oz/⅓ cup candied orange peel, finely chopped; 2.5 ml/½ tsp baking powder; finely grated rind of ½ lemon; 1.5 ml/¼ tsp nutmeg; 75 g/3 oz/¾ cup icing (confectioners’) sugar, sifted; 5 ml/1 tsp white rum; 3 cardamom pods; rice paper (optional); 1.5 ml/¼ tsp ground cloves; ½ egg white; 5 ml/1 tsp cinnamon; 2 eggs; 150 g/5 oz/1¼ cups plain (all-purpose) flour; 115 g/4 oz/scant ¾ cup caster (superfine) sugar

Preparation info

Makes
Twenty

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Complete Guide to Traditional Jewish Cooking

By Marlena Spieler

Published 2016

About

This is a spicy treat, scented with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and cardamom and topped with a rum-flavoured icing. It makes any tea-time a festival, especially at Sukkot, because of the fruit and nuts.

Ingredients

115 g/4 oz/1 cup blanched almonds, finely chopped
50

Europe
Germany
Vegetarian
Cookies
Spicy
Sukkot

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Set aside some of the almonds for sprinkling and put the remainder in a bowl with the candied orange peel and lemon rind.
Remove the black seeds from the cardamom pods and crush using a mortar and pestle. Add to t