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Grandma’s Lebkuchen Recipe

August 29, 2014 by Lloyd Jr. 6 Comments

Kathy sent in a copy of Grandma’s Lebkuchen recipe. Now someone will have to do some baking and let us know how it turns out (be sure you take pictures).

(as always, click to enlarge)
(as always, click to enlarge)

I found the recipe I always used for my Lebkuchen. It is about the size you would want to make.

  • 1 cup molasses
  • 1/3 cup lard or butter
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup butter milk or sour? milk
  • 1 tablespoon baking soda
  • 1/2 tablespoon? salt
  • 5 cups flour
  • 1 tablespoon cinnamon
  • 1/2 tablespoon cloves
  • 1 tablespoon allspice
  • 1 cup raisins
  • 1/2 pound fruit currents, any preserve? or citon?
  • 3/4 cup nuts

If this is weak molasses and doesn’t have much flavor, add some ???? molasses for flavor. You can make up the dough and let it set for a say or week and it will bake well. I sprinkle sugar and nuts over it when i roll it out and I like that better there. Some people use sugar icing after it is baked.

[after the recipe the letter continues:]

It’s very cold here. It’s 3pm and 6 below zero. Will be very low tonight. Otherwise the sun in shining and it’s beautiful out if you can stand it. Sending you all my love and best wishes and good health this new year. And good luck Loren with your cookies. [I can’t tell what the last sentence says]

Love you all,

grandma Sommerer

 

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A Letter from Grandma

August 11, 2014 by Lloyd Jr. 6 Comments

Below is a letter from Grandma to Kathy Meisinger from 1985:

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Filed Under: Correspondence, Recipes Tagged With: grandma

Grandma’s Coleslaw Recipe

March 23, 2012 by Lloyd Jr. 2 Comments

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Grandma’s Hickory Nut Tea Cake Cookie Redux

March 7, 2011 by Lloyd Jr. 6 Comments

There should be a special category for “things that Lloyd should have put on the website months ago, but never got around to”. I don’t know if everyone saw the link that Julie Baker posted to their successful recreation of Grandma’s Hickory Nut Tea Cake Cookies. If you didn’t, here it is:

I would have posted this sooner, but I was waiting to receive one in the mail.

You can also see the whole Christmas Cookie Extravaganza by clicking on the photo gallery below (you probably have to have a Facebook account for the link to work).

Click for the whole gallery

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: christmas, cookies

Thunderbolt (Sauerkraut) Cake

December 22, 2010 by Anne Miller 5 Comments

Here’s another one from Aunt Elizabeth’s recipe book. Anne Miller sent this in. When you send a recipe in, send in a photo too.

Thunderbolt (Sauerkraut) Cake (I included this one, especially, because I think it sounds revolting and am interested if anyone in the family has eaten or currently makes it- blahk!)
1 pkg Duncan Hines Chocolate Cake mix- Not Devil’s Food
Follow directions on box for mixing
Add 1-3 oz pkg Instant Chocolate pudding- mixing well.
Rinse and drain and chop kraut (1 cup)
Fold into batter- Bake in oblong or (not sure what this word is) pan-

350 degrees
30 min

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Hickory Nut Tea Cakes

November 17, 2010 by Anne Miller 20 Comments

We’ve been passing around the idea of posting recipes for a while. Well, Anne Miller was the first person to actually do something about it, and I love what she did. She didn’t just send in the recipe, she sent in a picture of the recipe. I think it’s very interesting to look at the actual recipe that someone wrote out all those years ago. If you send in a recipe, please take a picture of it as well (or scan it) and send that in too.

Hickory Nut Tea Cakes “Moms” (I assume this means Great-Grandma Theresa)
2 c b sugar
1 c chop nuts
4 c flour
1 tsp soda
1 c butter or lard (yum! gotta love that!)
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp bak powder

350 degrees
12 min

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: aunt elizabeth, recipe

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