Period gingerbread is curious stuff, but very easy to make. You take equal parts honey and breadcrumbs, boil the honey, add the spices -- whatever you'd put in your gingerbread, basically -- and sift the breadcrumbs in until you've got something you can roll into balls. You don't bake it, I think, you just eat what you've got.
Distressingly so. Not too terrible because enough bread soaks it up, but they're less gingerbread than they are honey nuggets.
I'm going to try to make lebkuchen for Christmas, though. Main ingredient: brown sugar. Silly Germans. I'm probably going to rot a tooth on the stuff... but I have some authentic molds for it!
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Why would you be boiling honey? Do you have a recipe for campside mead you've been holding out on?
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Period gingerbread is curious stuff, but very easy to make. You take equal parts honey and breadcrumbs, boil the honey, add the spices -- whatever you'd put in your gingerbread, basically -- and sift the breadcrumbs in until you've got something you can roll into balls. You don't bake it, I think, you just eat what you've got.
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I'm going to try to make lebkuchen for Christmas, though. Main ingredient: brown sugar. Silly Germans. I'm probably going to rot a tooth on the stuff... but I have some authentic molds for it!
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