Lebkuchen Recipe - Gingerbread!

Gingerbread Recipe

**If you want a big house, make two or three of these recipes.  **

**Don’t forget you need a floor for your house.**

 Ingredients

1 tablespoon butter softened

6 ¼ cups all-purpose flour

6 tablespoons double-acting baking powder

1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon

¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/8 teaspoon salt

¾ cup honey

1 ¾ cups sugar

¼ cup butter

1/3 cup lemon juice

1 tablespoon finely grated lemon peel

1 egg

1 egg yolk

Recipe

1.	With a paper towel, lightly coat a large jelly roll pan (cookie sheet with sides) with 1 tablespoon soft butter.
2.	Sprinkle ¼ cup flour into the pan, and tip it from side to side to coat it evenly.  Then turn it over and knock out the excess.  Set the pan aside.
3.	Sift 6 cups of flour, baking power, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and salt together into a large mixing bowl and set it aside.  This is called the flour and spice mixture.
4.	Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Put the oven rack in the middle position.
5.	In a large 4-5 quart saucepan (like you kind you boil spaghetti noodle in) bring honey sugar and butter to a boil over high heat, stirring with a large spoon until the sugar is dissolved and the butter melted.
6.	Remove the pan from the heat, mix in the lemon juice and lemon peel and cool to room temperature.
7.	Beat in 2 cups of the flour and spice mixture from #3.
8.	Add the egg and egg yolk and then beat in the remaining 4 cups of the flour and spice mixture from #3.
9.	Flour your hand lightly and knead until the dough is smooth, pliable and still slightly sticky.  If it is too moist to handle.  Beat in more flour by the tablespoon.
10.	Place the dough in the jelly roll pan (cookie sheet with sides).  With a slightly floured rolling pin, press and roll the dough out as evenly as possible.  Forcing it into the corners with your fingers.
11.	Bake for 35 minutes, or until the gingerbread is firm and the top brown.
12.	Wait 5 minutes then cut the gingerbread into the shapes you want for your house.
13.	Wrap them in wax paper or syran wrap and bring them to school in a cardboard box.