Hi Claire, I will post it this evening on the food list. Katharina > >Hi Katharina -- could be -- do you have a recipe for the Hazelnussgebaeck? >Claire > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Katharina Hines" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 11:19 PM >Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] Re: [GERMAN-FOOD] Fw: traditions for Christmas > > >If there alot of nuts in the cookie, it could be Hazelnut cookies >(Haselnußgebäck). >Katharina > > > >Thanks for your response Katharina -- but this is coarser and crunchier > >then > >lebkuchen. The nuts are like a fine coarse cut (if this makes sense) -- > >not > >big chunks but not ground to a flour. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Katharina Hines" <[email protected]> > >To: <[email protected]> > >Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 6:07 PM > >Subject: [GERMAN-LIFE] Re: [GERMAN-FOOD] Fw: traditions for Christmas > > > > > >| Hi Claire, > >| I don't know every thing. I just was lucky to lived in Germany for >over > >20 > >| years. My grandmother raised me. So I learned a lot of the old > >traditions.As > >| a child I ask alot of questions. > >| > >| It could be Lebkuchen.Gingerbread > >| Because it is spicy and brown in color. > >| The made houses from them, ornaments in all different size and shapes > >| The would be hang on the tree or wall and good to eat. > >| I don't cut them out any more I am getting lazy. I make Lebkuchen bars. > >| I make my batter, put icing on and cut in squares. > >| Katharina > >| > > >| >I'm looking for a recipe that we bought from a bakery when I was a > >child -- > >| >and they were a nutty, slightly spicy, golden cinnamon colored cookie > >that > >| >were cut into hearts and diamonds and round scalloped. Does this >sound > >| >familiar to anyone -- Katharina you seem to know everything? This was > >the > >| >only cookie we bought and it was from a Swiss-German bakery that no > >longer > >| >exists. > >| > > >| >Thank you again. > >| >Claire > >| > > >| > > >| > > >| >==== GERMAN-FOOD Mailing List ==== > >| >Problems? > >| >Email [email protected] > >| > > >| > >| > >___________________________________________________________________________ >_ > >_________ > >| Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : > >http://explorer.msn.com > >| > >| > > > >____________________________________________________________________________ >_________ >Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : >http://explorer.msn.com > > > _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com