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      Title: Lebkuchen
 Categories: Cookies
      Yield: 60 servings
 
           For bars:
      1 lb Honey
    1/2 c  Butter; (1 stick)
      2    Eggs; beaten well
           Grated peel of 1 large lemon
           Juice from half a lemon
      8 oz Unblanched almonds; chopped
           -fine
      4 oz Chopped assorted candied
           -citrus rind
  1 1/2 ts Baking soda
      1 ts Ground cinnamon
    1/2 ts Ground nutmeg
    1/2 ts Salt
    1/4 ts Ground cloves
  4 1/2 c  All-purpose flour
           For icing:
      3 c  Powdered sugar
           Juice of 1 lemon
      1 ts Vanilla
      1 ts Honey
      3 tb Water
           For decorating:
           Unblanched almond slivers
           Maraschino cherries
           Green candied fruit
 
  Recipe by: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 12/2/96 To prepare bars: Heat honey and
  butter until butter melts. Let cool to lukewarm. Beat in eggs. Beat in
  lemon peel, juice, almonds and candied fruit. Set aside.
  
  Sift together baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, cloves and flour; mix
  well. Add 1 cup at a time to honey mixture. Chill dough 8 hours.
  
  Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Pat dough into 2 greased 9-by-13-inch pans;
  bake 15 minutes or until firm and lightly browned. Let cool slightly in pan
  on racks.
  
  While bars are cooling, prepare icing: Blend sugar, juice, vanilla, honey
  and water. Glaze bars with icing while still warm. Cut into 1 1/2-by-2-inch
  rectangles. While icing is still wet, decorate with slivered almonds,
  maraschino cherries and green candied fruit. Remove bars from pans and let
  cool on racks. Store in airtight containers.
  
  Yield: 5 dozen cookies. By Tina Danze.
 
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