Lebkuchen

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 8 eggs
• 1 cup molasses
• 1% plate German Sweet Chocolate
• y2 cup of cut citron
• 1 cup cut almonds
• 1 cup pecans
• 3 cups flour
• 2 heap- ing teaspoonfuls baking powder
• 1 teaspoonful of each cinnaman
• 1 teaspoonful of each cloves
• 1 teaspoonful of each allspice
• 1 teaspoonful of each nutmeg

Method

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   This is to be baked in an 18 inch pan, when cool cut into 2 inch squares and cover with icing.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Fredericksburg home kitchen cook book (1921), page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lebkuc&en. 2 cups sugar; 1 cup butter; 8 eggs, the whites of two of them kept back for icing; 1 cup molasses; 1% plate German Sweet Chocolate; y2 cup of cut citron; 1 cup cut almonds; 1 cup pecans; 3 cups flour; 2 heap- ing teaspoonfuls baking powder; 1 teaspoonful of each cinnaman

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