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- From: R.GAGNAUX@link-ch1.aworld.de (Rene Gagnaux)
- Subject: Gingerbread
- Message-ID: <5JcTpo_BC1B@rgagnaux.link-ch1.aworld.de>
- Organization: Private, Schattdorf, Switzerland
- Date: Sat, 26 Feb 94 00:00:00 CET
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- Title: Gingerbread from Lucerne (LUZERN)
- Categories: Breads, Desserts, Switzerland
- Yield: 1 bread
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- 4 1/2 dl Fresh cream
- 3 Lemons; juice
- - to sour the cream
- 120 g Pear puree
- 200 g Sugar
- 10 g Mixed spices; star aniseed,
- - cloves, cinnamon, ginger
- 5 g Bicarbonate of soda
- 500 g Whole wheat flour
- 150 g Walnuts; roughly crushed
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- (Units: 100 g = 3 1/2 oz; 1 dl = 3 1/2 fl oz = 2/5 cup; 180 oC = 350
- oF; 200 oC = 400 oF; 230 oC = 450 oF; 250 oC = 475 oF; 2.5 cm = 1
- inch)
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- Gingerbread from Lucerne, the story:
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- There has always been a place for gingerbread on market stalls and at
- fairs. It was customary for a young man to offer his sweetheart a
- gingerbread cake, which she would acceptwith delight. Since the Middle
- Ages, Lucerne has seen the creation of a large number of such
- delicacies influenced by its governors and merchants.
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- The recipe:
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- Add the lemon juice to the cream and leave for a few minutes. Mix
- together the cream, pear puree sugar, mixed spices and bicarbonate of
- soda. Add the flour. Mix until well blended and then add the nuts.
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- Fill a flan ring (24 cm diameter, 6 cm high) and bake in the oven for
- 50 minutes at 190 oC.
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- Serve cold.
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- Culinary Art and Traditions of Switzerland, Pro Gastronomia, 1992
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- Typed for you by Rene Gagnaux @ 2:301/212.19
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