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Eggless Gingerbread with Honey

Subject: looking for a recipe from the early 70's
From: Valerie
Date: 2/2/2019, 11:13 AM
To: phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com

On 2/1/2019 10:04 PM, Valerie wrote:

 Good Day to you!

I have just found your website while looking up another recipe ingredient; what a great site 
you have!  I have been looking for this recipe for almost 20 years now, I have written to the 
magazines and tried every place I could find, no luck!
It is a spiced cookie or gingerbread "type" of hard cookie that is just perfect for making 
gingerbread houses.  It was in a magazine from when I was 14 - 15 in the early 70's, most 
likely 1970 or 71. It could have been Woman's Day, Good Housekeeping or Better Homes 
and Gardens; November or December issues. I believe it was listed as a recipe for making 
houses, but is not a typical "Gingerbread" recipe; because it does not have any eggs or 
rising ingredient so it dose not puff up and distort the cut out pieces.  The main ingredients 
I remember are a lot of honey, like a cup (or more) lots of spices, and 
no eggs; and I really think it was Better Homes and Gardens but just not certain.  I believe 
it was described as a German Spice Cookie over a "Gingerbread"  But just don't remember 
that well. Thank you for your time and great website!
Valerie

Hi Valerie,

I could not find a recipe for egg-less gingerbread or German spice cookies with honey that mentioned any of those three magazines. I have no way to search back issues of magazines for a recipe - I have to search for a recipe that mentions that it comes from a particular magazine by name.

German gingerbread and German spice cookies are called "lebkuchen", and often call for honey, but they also usually call for at least one egg. Common gingerbread recipes usually call for molasses or corn syrup or golden syrup, and less often for honey.

The closest recipe that I could find to your description calls for corn syrup rather than honey. See: The Spruce Eats

I will post this for reader input, but I see that you made this same request on another site in 2012 with no success, so I can't offer much hope. See:  Old Recipe Detective

Phaed