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                    GINGERBREAD FROM LUCERNE (LUZERN)

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Serving Size  : 1    Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Breads                           Desserts

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
   4 1/2   dl           Fresh cream
   3                    Lemons -- juice
                        - to sour the cream
 120       g            Pear puree
 200       g            Sugar
  10       g            Mixed spices -- star aniseed,
                        - cloves, cinnamon, ginger
   5       g            Bicarbonate of soda
 500       g            Whole wheat flour
 150       g            Walnuts -- roughly crushed

  Gingerbread from Lucerne, the story:
  
  There has always been a place for gingerbread on market stalls and at
  fairs. It was customary for a young man to offer his sweetheart a
  gingerbread cake, which she would acceptwith delight. Since the Middle
  Ages, Lucerne has seen the creation of a large number of such delicacies
  influenced by its governors and merchants.
  
  The recipe:
  
  Add the lemon juice to the cream and leave for a few minutes. Mix together
  the cream, pear puree sugar, mixed spices and bicarbonate of soda. Add the
  flour. Mix until well blended and then add the nuts.
  
  Fill a flan ring (24 cm diameter, 6 cm high) and bake in the oven for 50
  minutes at 190°C.
  
  Serve cold.
  
  Culinary Art and Traditions of Switzerland, Pro Gastronomia, 1992
  
  Typed for you by Rene Gagnaux @ 2:301/212.19
 
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