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Ammonium carbonate, I mean!! Darn these fingers. Lol

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Threw 1/2 cup flour, milk, 1/4 tsp baking powder and more spice into the leftover dough. Cookies came out thicker, cakier, spicier, better! I like lebkuchen with some flour in it so if I make this recipe again that's what I'll do. And at Christmas I'll order the wicklein lebkuchen!! 😂

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Mike, i pray your power stays on. Do you have a generator? I'm glad we do because we've had to use it multiple times. Gotta depend on yourself! Amazingly, it hit 45 here today but now the deep freeze is coming back with the possibility of 5 to 10 inches of snow Thursday into Friday.

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I made 2 batches of the lebkuchen and put the rest of the batter in the fridge for overnight. They are good but not like the Wickkein ones I got online from the europeandeli. Since I have no idea what they taste like in the German Christmas market maybe chocomouse can help me out here. A couple things - they weren't spicy enough so I would double or triple the spices next time. They were also too hazelnutty tasting. I would use more almond meal and less hazelnut meal. Texture was good. I added more spice to the dough in the fridge so I'll see how that comes out tomorrow. I haven't put any sugar glaze on yet. I'm gonna grind up some crystalized ginger and add it to the dough, too, for tomorrow. Definitely needs more spice.

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My 70 yr old friend had covid in December and was I'll at home for 5 weeks. She just had the 1st dose of covid vaccine yesterday morning and by late afternoon had a severe reaction like she had covid again. Her cousin and another person who had covid but mild cases got the vaccine and also had reactions. I googled and on WebMD it said

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Polish sausage, coleslaw, oven fried potatoes.

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Today I made a pound cake. Tomorrow lebkuchen. I found this recipe online and already made the spice for it. Didn't have any coriander, though. Put in a penzey's order so I'll have it for next time. I'm not going to use the wafers but rather put them on the silpat. The recipe looks pretty good. We'll see.

https://www.daringgourmet.com/traditional-nuernberger-elisenlebkuchen-german-lebkuchen

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Changed my mind. Welsh rabbit (RAREBIT) instead. Bacon!!! Lol

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Beer cheese fondue tonight!

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Oh, chocomouse, I pray you can get your vaccine!! It's so hard to get an appt. Hopefully the roads will be plowed.

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Just made a bottle of gluhwein and drinking a cup. 😋 I've been googling and did see Dorie's recipe for leckerli and thought it looked like lebkuchen. Thanks for the link, Bakeraunt. Saves me typing for it again. There were also recipes for Lebkuchengewurz (lebkuchen spices). I have all the ingredients plus crystallized ginger which I plan to use. Still had a little gingerbread dough in the freezer and sliced it for cookies. Thanks all for your input. Supposed to snow tonight, monday, tuesday. Gonna try a lebkuchen one day.

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I'll check out Dorie, too, Bakeraunt. Thanks!

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Cool that you lived in Germany, chocomouse. I bet you went to the Christmas markets. That's something I'd like to visit. There are a lot of recipes online, some use honey, some no flour, almonds, hazelnuts, different spices, fruits, wafers, etc. I think I'll start with kaf. I love gingerbread and spice type cakes. Maybe this weekend while it's snowing. Should go well with mulled wine! 😊

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Cvs got vaccines yesterday and I was trying to get on their website. After 2 hours, managed to get mom a vaccine on Valentine's day and the 2nd a month from then. Couldn't get an appt for my husband and myself. I really want him to get it because he has a lot of underlying conditions. Nightmare the way this is rolling out. More vaccines on the horizon.

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That's the truth, cwcdesign. I just opened a 32 oz of the Nielsen Massey's that I've had for over a yr plus I made a little homemade a couple months ago. I have a small bottle of tahitian that I only use for vanilla cake so the flavor comes thru. I'm set for a while. Prices are crazy. Let us know how the beanilla is.

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