Grandmother's Lebkuchen Cookies Recipe

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Grandmother's Lebkuchen Cookies
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Ingredients
14
Count
Nutrition
4542
Calories
Total time
4380
Minutes
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Ingredients:

  • 1 pint molasses (green label-brer rabbit)
  • 2 cups brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup shortening
  • 1 1/4 tsp anise oil
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp clove
  • 3 tsp baking soda (dissolved in 1/4 cup of warm water)
  • 1 tsp vinegar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 7 1/2-8 cups flour

Directions:

  1. Cream together molasses, brown sugar, egg, and shortening.
  2. Sift cinnamon, cloves, baking powder, salt, and flour and set aside.
  3. Add coffee, anise oil and vinegar to creamed brown sugar mixture and mix thoroughly.
  4. Add dry ingredients and baking soda solution to mixture (mix well).
  5. Add ground walnuts and mix.
  6. Refrigerate for at least 3 days.
  7. Dough will be tough.
  8. Keep unused dough in fridge.
  9. Keep flouring rolling pin.
  10. On a floured surface and with a floured rolling pin roll out dough (Roll out a pound at a time) to 1/4 of an inch.
  11. Cut cookies with cookie cutters.
  12. Grease cookie sheet slightly.
  13. Bake at 350 degrees for about 8 minutes.
  14. Ice with confectioner sugar, butter, milk icing (I don't have exact measurements for her icing because she says she wings it).
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 4542.44 Kcal (19018 kJ)
Calories from fat 1564.73 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 173.86g 267%
Cholesterol 54.56mg 18%
Sodium 10801.01mg 450%
Potassium 4698.77mg 100%
Total Carbs 703.79g 235%
Sugars 311.21g 1245%
Dietary Fiber 46.65g 187%
Protein 60.87g 122%
Vitamin C 0.9mg 2%
Iron 39mg 216%
Calcium 1850.6mg 185%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 378.56 Kcal (1585 kJ)
Calories from fat 130.4 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 14.49g 267%
Cholesterol 4.55mg 18%
Sodium 900.14mg 450%
Potassium 391.59mg 100%
Total Carbs 58.65g 235%
Sugars 25.94g 1245%
Dietary Fiber 3.89g 187%
Protein 5.07g 122%
Vitamin C 0.1mg 2%
Iron 3.2mg 216%
Calcium 154.2mg 185%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 104.5
    Points
  • 123
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low cholesterol,
  • good source of fiber

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Sugar,
  • High in Total Fat

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