Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chewy, honey-sweetened spice cake or cookie, often containing nuts or candied fruits.
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- noun A traditional German Christmas
biscuit form ofgingerbread .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To me they taste a little like the fantastic brandy sauce I made to pour over our Christmas pudding, crossed with the thin German lebkuchen biscuits....and with an orange flavour.
Archive 2005-12-01 Niki 2005
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To me they taste a little like the fantastic brandy sauce I made to pour over our Christmas pudding, crossed with the thin German lebkuchen biscuits....and with an orange flavour.
Brandy & Orange biscuits Niki 2005
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As we explore the market we stop for some lebkuchen which is a famous traditional gingerbread cake.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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The main difference was fewer lebkuchen and roasted nuts stands and, in a Gallic twist, more escargot stands.
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The two basic forms of gingerbread are shortbread made with molasses, which originated in Scotland, and lebkuchen, which uses honey as a sweetener and originated in Germany.
The Christmas Cookie Cookbook Ann Pearlman 2010
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Germany's soft ginger honey cakes lebkuchen or pfefferkuchen are possibly the first cookies/cake traditionally associated with Christmas.
Archive 2008-12-01 Jessica 2008
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Germany's soft ginger honey cakes lebkuchen or pfefferkuchen are possibly the first cookies/cake traditionally associated with Christmas.
Christmas Honey Cookies for the Honey-Tongued Saint Mary 2008
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Marzipan and lebkuchen from Cost Plus, Choxie and almonds in nice containers from Target.
December 26th, 2007 2007
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Plus, it was enormous, and it took us (actually, Bruno, he loves that kind of dry spicy thing, like a kind of lebkuchen, a gingery spicy cakey biscuit) the whole of our holidays in the mountains to get through it.
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If you don't know a word, it puts it in context for you, like Bart slipped a lebkuchen to the Schnauzer, if that clears it up.
jennarenn commented on the word lebkuchen
German spice cookies with all kind of wonderful stuff inside of them. You want the ones topped with redhots instead of walnuts.
January 4, 2008
bilby commented on the word lebkuchen
What are redhots? I'm excited.
January 4, 2008
jennarenn commented on the word lebkuchen
Red Hots are spicy little cinnamon candies sold in the US. My grandma used the frost the lebkuchen with white icing and place three little Red Hots in a cluster on the top of the lucky cookies. Less fortunate treats got a lonely nut.
January 4, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word lebkuchen
I hate eating redhots, but they are certainly cute as the dickens.
January 4, 2008
jennarenn commented on the word lebkuchen
You don't like Red Hots???? Have you ever had one that came with its very own lebkuchen attached to the back?
January 4, 2008
bilby commented on the word lebkuchen
Okay, the I'm convinced the world needs Red Hots, thanks jenn :-)
January 4, 2008
reesetee commented on the word lebkuchen
They're omnipresent in the States around Valentine's Day--I know because I once received an entire shoebox (sans shoes) full of them. It took about six years to eat them all, and I haven't bought shoes since.
January 4, 2008
trivet commented on the word lebkuchen
Me, I'm anti-redhot and pro Lebkuchen. At least the kind my Gran made. No walnuts or firey sugar, just a glazy icing and if you were extra lucky, one of those silver balls...
January 5, 2008
reesetee commented on the word lebkuchen
You mean the ones that broke your teeth when you ate them? Yum!
January 5, 2008
trivet commented on the word lebkuchen
The ball or the cookie?
January 5, 2008
reesetee commented on the word lebkuchen
Haha! The balls. The cookies only broke my teeth when they were really, really stale.
January 5, 2008