BASLER LECKERLI (SWISS SPICED HARD BARS)
These are very special bars developed by the local spice merchants and made with lots of honey - very sweet, they taste just wonderful... The Leckerli was invented between 1431 and 1449. It was used to feed church dignitaries when the pope was in Basel.
Provided by Artandkitchen
Categories Bar Cookie
Time 1h20m
Yield 100-150 cookies
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Melt honey very slowly in a pan, add almonds, sugar and swirl until the sugar is melted too.
- Let cool slightly.
- Add all other ingredients until the Kirsch and mix well.
- Add the flour and eventually the baking soda and work to a compact dough.
- Roll the dough out on two greased baking sheets approximately 5 mm thick.
- Store overnight.
- Preheat the oven at 180°C (heat and timing are basing it on convection oven).
- Prepare the glaze heating in a pot water and sugar until boiling point. Reduce the heat but let it boil slowly.
- Bake 15-20 minutes at 180°C (I need 18 minutes).
- In the meanwhile the glaze should be ready. It takes about 15 to 20 Minutes until it thickens, it's bound and crystals appear.
- Remove from the heat but keep on a slightly warm plate.
- When the dough is baked, remove pans to a rack and immediately cut in rectangles (but don't separate them completely) brush the tops with glaze.
- When cooled dived the rectangles and store in airtight containers.
- Note: you can built a gingerbread house with this dough! I used 3 fold quantities for the gingerbread house of the picture!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 110.1, Fat 1.6, SaturatedFat 0.1, Sodium 2.6, Carbohydrate 23.2, Fiber 0.8, Sugar 14.8, Protein 1.7
SWISS BASLER LECKERLI (BASEL COOKIES)
Makes 1 cookie sheet of cookies. For ZWT II('06). Times don't include overnight(or 5-6 hours)of drying before naking.
Provided by Nana Lee
Categories Bar Cookie
Time 45m
Yield 12-14 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Put honey, sugar, cinnamon, clove powder and nut meg in a pan, heat up slowly, then remove from stove.
- Add candied orange peel, candied lemon peel, almonds and grind skin of lemon, stir until mixed evenly.
- Add kirsch, flour and baking powder, knead on a table to form a soft dough.
- While the dough is still warm, roll it out on the back of a greased baking sheet approximately 5 mm (0.2 inches) thick.
- Let it rest for about 5 to 6 hours or over night in a dry place.
- Bake for about 15 to 20 minutes in the center of the pre-heated oven at 430°F(220°C).
- Mix confectioner's sugar and kirsch or water, frost dough immediately.
- Cut off stale edges.
- Cut dough in small pieces (5 x 3 cm, 2 x 1.5 inches), take them off the baking sheets and let them cool.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 350.6, Fat 4.5, SaturatedFat 0.4, Sodium 32.5, Carbohydrate 75.9, Fiber 2.1, Sugar 54.7, Protein 4.5
SWISS BASLER LECKERLI WITH KIRSCH
This is from "The Swiss Cookbook". I haven't made it yet. Times are guesstimates and do not include time for them to ripen or overnight resting time. Frankly, I won't be make the glaze with uncooked egg whites. I think there is a specialty baking item that contains pasteruized egg whites.
Provided by Debbie R.
Categories Dessert
Time 1h25m
Yield 1 batch
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Pour honey into a large saucepan. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat.
- Add Kirsch. Stir in sugar. Return to medium heat. Stir in everything else except flour and glaze ingredients. Remove from heat.
- Stir in the flour graadually until the dough cleans the side of the pan. This should take about 15 minutes. If the dough is still sticky, add more flour, a little at a time.
- Roll out to 1/2-inch thickness. Cut into 2 x 3-inch bars. Place them closely together on a heavily greased and floured baking sheet. Let stand overnight at room temperature.
- Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. While hot, brush with confectioners glaze.
- To make glaze: beat together for 20 minutes. If more glaze is needed, make up several batches rather than doubling the recipe.
- NOTE: These need to ripen before eating. Pack in airtight containers and keep, if possible, for 3- 4 weeks. Stored this way, this will keep almost indefinitely.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 10018.4, Fat 157.1, SaturatedFat 13.1, Sodium 1116.5, Carbohydrate 2064.9, Fiber 70.3, Sugar 1247.3, Protein 175
FRESH FRUIT WITH KIRSCH
So easy and quite elegant! Strawberries, grapefruit, oranges and some melons are also excellent choices, but benefit from pouring the kirsch over and chilling. From the Wisconsin Dutch chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947.
Provided by Molly53
Categories Dessert
Time 10m
Yield 5-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 3
Steps:
- Slice pineapple and stack the slices on a plate.
- Serve with the confectioners' sugar and a decanter of kirsch.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 45.3, Fat 0.1, Sodium 0.9, Carbohydrate 11.9, Fiber 1.3, Sugar 8.7, Protein 0.5
LECKERLI
Spices and candied fruit are in these chewy cookie squares. From an article in Family Circle Magazine 12/11/1979 about delicious Christmas cookies made at the White House by their German chef. (My clipping is falling apart!)
Provided by Linky
Categories Bar Cookie
Time 50m
Yield 24 bars
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Combine honey and sugar in a small saucepan. Heat slowly, stirring constantly, until honey thins and sugar dissolves; cool slightly.
- Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves into a large bowl.
- Add almonds, candied orange and lemon peels; mix to coat.
- Add cooled honey mixture, egg and kirsch to flour mixture; stir with wooden spoon until blended.
- Knead dough together with palm of hand until mixture cleans side of bowl; shape into ball; flatten slightly.
- Roll dough between two sheets of wax paper to a 13x9 inch rectangle, slightly less than 1/4 inch thich, keeping edges as even as possible.
- Remove top piece of wax paper; flip dough onto lightly greased cookie sheet; remove second piece of wax paper.
- Brush top lightly with milk.
- Bake in a moderate over (375 degrees F) for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
- Remove cookie sheet to wire rack.
- Trim edges of cookie dough; cut into 2-inch squares.
- Make GLAZE: Combine 1/2 cup granulated sugar and 3 Tbsp water in saucepan. Cook about 5 minutes or until it registers 235 degrees F on candy thermometer.
- Brush Glaze quickly over warm Leckerli. (Do not make glaze until Leckerli are out of the oven or it will harden.)
- Decorate with candied red cherry halves and angelica leaves. (Glaze will harden and turn white.).
BASELER LECKERLI (SWISS SPICE COOKIES)
This recipe is posted in response to a request. It's adapted from a recipe by Otto Eckstein, executive pastry chef at the Pan Pacific Hotel in San Francisco, CA.
Provided by EdsGirlAngie
Categories Dessert
Time 1h
Yield 60-72 cookies
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Line 2 baking sheets with parchment.
- Sift together the flour, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, nutmeg and baking soda.
- Combine honey, sugar and water in a small saucepan.
- Place over low heat until the honey just melts- do not let it boil.
- Transfer the mixture to the bowl of a heavy-duty mixer fitted with the dough hook.
- Let cool slightly.
- Add the sifted flour mixture, the almonds, orange peel and lemon zest.
- Blend until the mixture comes together in a heavy, sticky dough, adding a spoonful or two of water if needed.
- (The mixing can be done by hand, but it's labor intensive) Resist the urge to add more water to make the dough easier to handle; it would impair the texture of the finished cookies.
- Spread the dough about 1/2 to 1 inch thick on the baking sheets, forming 3 rectangles, each about 8 x 9 inches.
- Bake for about 20 minutes, until the tops turn a medium brown.
- When the dough rectangles have baked, remove pans to a rack and immediately brush the tops with glaze.
- Let cool for 10 minutes.
- Cut into 1 x 3-inch bars or into diamond shapes.
- Transfer to racks to cool completely.
- Ice with a simple sugar glaze.
- Store in airtight containers, placing wax paper between layers.
- Let rest at least 1 week, preferably longer.
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