Standard Elisen Lebkuchen 210g
Standard Elisen Lebkuchen 210g
The finest of German gingerbreads are the flourless Elisen lebkuchen, the masterpiece of the trade since the early nineteenth century, with substantial nut content. According to legend, this name goes back to 1720, when the daughter of one of Nuernberg’s master lebkuechner fell ill. Her desperate father baked an especially fine lebuchen, made only with hazelnuts, honey and spices and named it after his daughter Elisabeth: the Elisen Lebkuchen. Elisen lebkuchen come glazed with sugar or chocolate, or plain.
Ingredients: almonds, egg white, sugar, marzipan, hazelnuts, honey, candied orange and lemon peel, walnuts, apricot jam, gingerbread spices, raising agents, cocoa, cocoa butter, soya lecithin, vanilla, glucose syrup, citric acid, agar agar. CONTAINS: NUTS, EGG, SOY, WHEAT
Quantity: 3. Handmade, baked and packaged in Bremen, Germany.
Named after the daughter of a gingerbread baker from Nuremberg, Elisenl ebkuchen are soft round gingerbread cookies baked on top of a thin wafer. They are served either plain or covered with a thin layer of icing or dark chocolate and are sometimes decorated with whole almonds as well.
What distinguishes Elisen lebkuchen from other types of German gingerbread, and what makes them so special, is that they contain little to no flour. To be able to be called Elisen lebkuchen, their total flour content must not exceed 10 percent (and they must contain at least 25 percent nuts). In fact, many bakeries pride themselves with not using any flour in their Elisen lebkuchen; instead, their primary ingredients are ground almonds and hazelnuts, which keep the Elisen lebkuchen wonderfully moist for weeks.
Handmade, baked and packaged in Bremen, Germany.