My grandmother used to make honigkuchen (very similar to lebkuchen, but cake rather than cookie bars) every year, in October for Christmas. When her health began to fail, she gave us a copy of her recipe. We made it a couple of times, but too late to age it properly so it wasn't the same. Then we lost the recipe. I turned Mom's kitchen upside down ( Read more... )

My German grandmother used to make honigkuchen--honey cake--every Christmas. (Actually more like October; it needs to age.) When she started failing, she gave us the recipe, and we made it a few times; although we never remembered until mid-December, so it wasn't the same ( Read more... )