The 2011 Schmidt Lebkuchen products have arrived! We will begin shipping Schmidt Lebkuchen orders on October 3, 2011. Be the first to get the 2011 Festive Chest from the largest distributor of Schmidt Lebkuchen in the U.S. Any questions, email us at customerservice@mostlychocolate.com or call us toll free at 1-877-602-9292.
As always, we are very excited about our 2011 Schmidt Lebkuchen Season! Schmidt continues to provide lovely gifts that embody the spirit of the original German Christmas.
MostlyChocolate.com offers many of the old favorites, 2011 Festive Chest, Old Nuremberg Elisen Chest, Small Nuremberg Chest, and Advent Calendar (just to mention a few) with newly designed tins. We also carry the new Schmidt Lebkuchen products such as the Nostalgic Suitcase Chest!
Our printed catalogs were shipped September 19th. To download a copy of our Winter 2011 catalog, click here. If you are interested in joining our mailing list to receive a printed catalog, send an email to customerservice@mostlychocolate.com.
We look forward to helping you this holiday season!
Schmidt Lebkuchen What are they?
Lebkuchen is a German tradition for the holidays. It is a traditional German biscuit baked for Christmas and resembling a soft gingerbread.
The treats are in packages of variously-flavored soft and crisp cookies that are gift-packaged in beautiful tin boxes with a variety of designs on them. Lebkuchen in English means gingerbread, but it's the gingerbread of the gods!
Lebkuchen range in taste from spicy to sweet and come in a variety of shapes with round being the most common. The ingredients usually include honey spices such as aniseed, coriander, cloves, ginger, cardamom, and allspice, nuts including almonds, hazelnuts, and walnuts, or candied fruit.
The proportion or content of the type of nuts often determines the value. Lebkuchen dough is usually placed on a thin wafer base called Oblate. This was an idea of the monks, who used unleavened communion wafer ingredients to prevent the dough from sticking. Typically, they are glazed or covered with very dark chocolate, but some are left uncoated.
Schmidt Lebkuchen History
The style of the traditional Lebkuchen was invented by Medieval monks in Franconia, Germany in the 13th century. Lebkuchen bakers were recorded as early as 1296 in Ulm and since 1395 in Nuremberg.
Local history in Nuremberg relates that emperor Friedrich the Third held a convention there in 1487 and he invited the children of the city to a special event where he presented Lebkuchen bearing his printed portrait to almost four thousand children.
Traditionally, the cookies are usually quite large and may be four and a half inches in diameter if round, and larger if rectangular. Sometimes Lebkuchen is packaged in richly decorated tins, chests, and boxes which have become nostalgic collector items.
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Schmidt Lebkuchen treats are your chance to share some of the tradition-rich longed-for Lebkuchen and other delicacies from The Old World. Order from Mostly Chocolate anytime and begin enjoying the history.
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