For everyone looking for “Grampa’s” gingerbread house recipe–this is as close as we’ve been able to come and it works beautifully. The minced fruit and candied peel aren’t in here–but it was nasty anyway. So, your honey cake will probably NOT last until the Millennium…sorry. But dad also added things like powdered ammonia to some of his stuff and who even KNOWS what that was about? I can just hear him laughing his head off at us right now.
“Now, dear…it’s not gingerbread—it’s HONEYCAKE!”
I miss you, daddy. And all the secrets you took with you. 😀
Lebkuchen–Honey Cake
Ingredients:
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp ground allspice
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1 cup corn syrup
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tsp grated lemon rind (optional)
1 tablespoon water
Stir together first 6 ingredients. In 1-quart saucepan, bring corn syrup and sugar to a boil. Cool.
In a large bowl stir together corn syrup mixture, egg, and lemon juice. Gradually stir in flour mixture until well blended. Cover; chill 1 hour or until easy to handle.
Roll out dough 1/4 at a time to 1/4″ thickness onto a well greased cookie sheet. Bake in 400°F oven 6-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove from cookie sheet immediately and place on rack. Cut into cookies or house pieces while it’s still warm.
If cutting into cookies, mix confectioners’ sugar and water. While still warm, brush with glaze. Cool.
May be stored in tightly covered container for a dang long time.
Makes about 4 dozen.
- 3 cups sifted flour
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp ground allspice
- ½ tsp ground cloves
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 cup corn syrup
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tsp grated lemon rind (optional)
- ½ cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 tablespoon water
- Stir together first 6 ingredients.
- In 1-quart saucepan, bring corn syrup and sugar to a boil. Cool.
- In a large bowl stir together corn syrup mixture, egg, and lemon juice.
- Gradually stir in flour mixture until well blended.
- Cover; chill 1 hour or until easy to handle.
- Roll out dough ¼ at a time to ¼" thickness onto a well greased cookie sheet.
- Bake in 400°F oven 6-10 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Remove from cookie sheet immediately and place on rack.
- Cut into cookies or house pieces while it's still warm.
- If cutting into cookies, mix confectioners' sugar and water.
- While still warm, brush with glaze. Cool.
- May be stored in tightly covered container for a dang long time.
