lebkuchen

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The best that even Aunt Hedwig could say of his lebkuchen was that it was not bad.

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  • It's amazing what Americans have put up with for the last 8 years lebkuchen —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • The young man of whom she spoke most frequently, and with a frank friendliness, was the handsome young assistant baker at the Café Nürnberger; a very capable young fellow, Hans Kuhn by name, who of late had brought that excellent bakery into great vogue because of the almost miraculously good lebkuchen which he baked there. —  An Idyl Of The East Side 1891
  • This first stage in the making of lebkuchen is but means to an end, and for the compassing of that end--the blending and the baking of the finished and perfect honey-cake--each master-baker has his own especial recipe, that has come down to him from some ancestral baker of rare parts, or that by his own inborn genius has been directly inspired. —  A Romance Of Tompkins Square 1891
  • Yet the love that thus was re-established in Gottlieb's breast was far from filling it, and so for ambition there was ample room Illustration: Sat beside the oven smoking his second pipe 204 Somewhat to his surprise, one night, as he sat beside the oven smoking his second pipe, he found himself thinking once more about his project for making such lebkuchen as never yet had been known outside of Nürnberg--lebkuchen that would make him at once the admiration and the despair of every German baker in New York. —  A Romance Of Tompkins Square 1891
  • The best that even Aunt Hedwig could say of his lebkuchen was that it was not bad. —  A Romance Of Tompkins Square 1891
 

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  1. German, from Middle High German lebekuoche : lebe-, of unknown meaning + kuoche, cake; see kuchen.
 

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