stan_der_man
The Teflon Frog
Maybe this is too obscure of a question but it's the food mystery that I run into every year...
We get lebkuchen from our uncle in Germany every Christmas and when we give some to friends I never know how to discribe it. Just recently my wife was at a local store called Trader Joe's where they were selling limited amounts of it. I noticed that it was labeled as gingerbread. Lebkuchen is definately softer than gingerbread has a different (less cookie-like) texture, and tastes different. In German "pfefferkuchen" is gingerbread, but lebkuchen is always called lebkuchen. I'm wondering if it's being called gingerbread just because that's the closest english word. Maybe I'm being too nitpicky and it really is just a soft gingerbread...
http://www.germandeli.com/weweasle.html
fa_man_stan
We get lebkuchen from our uncle in Germany every Christmas and when we give some to friends I never know how to discribe it. Just recently my wife was at a local store called Trader Joe's where they were selling limited amounts of it. I noticed that it was labeled as gingerbread. Lebkuchen is definately softer than gingerbread has a different (less cookie-like) texture, and tastes different. In German "pfefferkuchen" is gingerbread, but lebkuchen is always called lebkuchen. I'm wondering if it's being called gingerbread just because that's the closest english word. Maybe I'm being too nitpicky and it really is just a soft gingerbread...
http://www.germandeli.com/weweasle.html
fa_man_stan
