Elizen's nut gingerbreads for the New Year

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 2 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   Ingredients

2. STEP 2

   

   Grate the zest from the lemon

3. STEP 3

   

   Beat the eggs with a mixer until foamy

4. STEP 4

   

   Add granulated sugar in a thin stream as you beat, beat until white foam

5. STEP 5

   

   Throw in all the other ingredients at once

6. STEP 6

   

   Mix. Set the oven to preheat (up to 150 degrees, a little hotter than for meringues)

7. STEP 7

   

   If using gingerbread wafers, place them on top of the paper on a baking sheet, but not close to each other.

8. STEP 8

   

   Use a spoon to place portions of the nut mass onto the wafers (or plop them directly onto the paper, it’s faster and more convenient, it’s just that the gingerbread cookies without the wafers are less shelf-stable and have a slightly different consistency

9. STEP 9

   

   Bake in the oven on a medium rack at 150 degrees for 20 minutes.

10. STEP 10

    

    Remove from the oven, let cool, and only then separate the bridges with a knife if they have formed between individual gingerbread cookies.

11. STEP 11

    

    Completely cooled gingerbread cookies can be coated with glaze (or not). I also sprinkled it with waffle snowflakes purely for decorative purposes. Enjoy!

Comments on the recipe

Anahit

24.09.2023

5

Magnago, it’s morning, I’m seeing my family off to work, and while they’re having breakfast, I popped into Khrumka and the first thing that caught my eye was your recipe for nut gingerbread, which in itself, I see, is very tasty. However, I was so excited by your attached text about the German celebration of the New Year that I read it to my sons. And do you know what we said in unison from the heart? What a good tradition this is! This stupid dictatorship of modern technological civilization has led to the fact that in most cases we have become isolated and isolated in the territories of our “holes” and simply gone wild from simple human communication. And here, look, there is a reason to take our honor into our hands and to show what, in the end, you are capable of. And also, knowing that all the people will still look at your “creation”, the full potential of your capabilities awakens. And finals are also held in kindergartens and schools, at local Christmas markets, in the presence of children and grandchildren who are proudly happy for their parents and who, looking at all this, absorb all the positive emotions and in the future, I am sure, will pass them on to their children and grandchildren. Well, that’s a wonderful continuity of generations. You understand Magnago, this is such a charge of vivacity, kindness, friendliness, which will be enough for the whole next year. And you know, I would love to become a “maniac” and happily take part in such New Year’s events. I even envied such good traditions of these punctual Germans!

Magnago

24.09.2023

4.9

Well, Anahit, in reality, of course, there is no competition here, it’s all behind the scenes. Now I will explain how it happens. For example, at the village Christmas market (there is an article about them in our magazine, go and maybe you’ll find out something interesting) there is a house from a kindergarten and a house from a school. They sell crafts and baked goods. Baked goods usually come in special transparent bags made of shiny polyethylene (or glass jars), with decorative ribbons. You can even give such a bag to someone, they always try to fill them and decorate them more beautifully. The mothers of the children bake these items, and the money from the sale goes to the kindergarten fund. Of course, every mother wants her bags to sell out! And so that next year the kindergarten would say: “Oh, Frau So-and-So, please bake us your wonderful cookies again, everyone liked them so much last year!” Schools organize several events of this type. High school students must make their own baked goods for charity bazaars, while their mothers bake them for elementary school students. There will also be a food and drink stand at the whole school Christmas party. The money will go to the school fund. This is a polite way for the Germans to extract money from their students' parents. But no one is offended by this - after all, you not only know that you are giving a little money for the benefit of your child, but you also get a cake or cookie for him.

Anna

24.09.2023

4.5

Oh how interesting it is here!!! Good evening dear friends!!! All these events they have there must be interesting and fun, I would love to take part in such charity bazaars!!!

Shura

24.09.2023

4.5

Magnago, which means the shelf life of these gingerbread cookies is quite long, if you bake these cookies three times in December, it’s great that you decorated them so festively, I mean snowflakes, with them the gingerbread cookies will go with a bang at any auction, you can use multi-colored fondant cook and then the surface will be bright and elegant. The cooking process itself is very touching; the family probably knows that gingerbread cookies are hidden somewhere in the house, and are they waiting in the wings, or are they looking for them? I couldn’t resist looking and if I found it, I would take a sample. I will note that such cookies without flour are also suitable for me with separate meals, sugar really interferes, but I will find a way to replace it. And how cool it would be to wrap them in multi-colored foil and hang them on the Christmas tree, that’s also an option). If I have time, I will definitely prepare it for the New Year. It’s true that I don’t have any forms and I’ll use the old-fashioned method, the one that Magnago described. How many days do the German New Year holidays last?

Anahit

24.09.2023

4.9

Magnago, with your detailed description of New Year's school events in Germany, you made me fall in love with the German people even more. Despite the dark spots in the history of mankind, they are a very talented and hardworking people. It has long been known that the whole world is a theater (circus), and the people in it are actors. The question is who the actors are and how they play. And one more truth, free cheese, it turns out, is not free in a mousetrap (it costs the mouse’s life). And also, please tell me, who doesn’t like it when they are rightfully praised: be it German, Russian or Armenian. This is how black envy differs from white envy, I translate: I can’t cook like Frau So-and-So, even though she won’t succeed this year, and vice versa, Frau So-and-So had the best gingerbread cookies last year, but I’ll try and this year mine will be the best. Moreover, as I understand, in a polite manner, this money goes to the school fund. In our country, this is done in an impolite manner: also tacitly, but in a strict tone, they are obliged to contribute a certain amount to the class fund, regardless of the solvency of one or another parent. I would really like our local officials to know about this German tradition. Magnagochka, I really like your descriptions and essays and I read them with great pleasure

Irisha

24.09.2023

4.9

Magnago, wonderful cookies!! I just love everything with nuts! And the Germans have really wonderful traditions, I hope that one day they will do something similar here, I would like to take part in something like that

Magnago

24.09.2023

4.9

Shura, ALL Advent baked goods automatically have a long shelf life. Moreover, cookies can be stored even for months if you keep them not in polyethylene, but in tin cans. So that they reach Russia in parcels for the New Year, I bake them in October - no one has ever complained that something tastes bad or the consistency is somehow different. No, I don’t know, maybe they just don’t want to upset me... But I think if something had gone wrong, they would have at least told me not to do it again. The German New Year holidays last... um... depending who. For children in schools - 2 weeks. For adults, “red” on the calendar is December 25 and 26, and then January 1. Everything else comes from vacation. Moreover, I want to clarify that there are no postponements of weekends due to holidays. In general, Germans like it least of all when their Christmas holidays fall on a weekend, and most of all when they fall on Monday-Tuesday or Thursday-Friday.