Dr Almute Grohmann-Sinz has reconstructed a possible recipe for this 'bread', concluding that it was a molded biscuit similar to the German
springerle made with eggs, sugar, coriander, caraway seeds, and rose water.
The product line includes "Prayerful Pretzels" and eight other kinds of cookies, including shortbread, ginger snap and the "
springerle," a traditional German cookie embossed with a design.
The original designs of the wood resin composite molds, such as this "Partridge in a Pear Tree," can be used to bake
springerle, gingerbread or shortbread, as well as to shape marzipan.
The Thanksgiving turkey straight out of Norman Rockwell's Freedom from Want (1943), followed soon by the arrival of heavy wicker hampers from Grandma in Detroit, redolent of cinnamon, ginger, and anise as we opened them to savor the Christmas baking--lebkuchen, Pfeffernusse,
springerle.
The best example of these early cookies is the German
springerle, the embossed, anise-flavored cookies baked in special molds that are still part of German holidays.
She included a recipe for making German
Springerle cookies, their tops embossed with the designs on the rolling pin.
And it seems one is made to suit every taste--traditional pins, baker's pins, marble pins, French pins,
Springerle pins, pasta pins, and more are available.
There are traditional pins, baker's pins, marble pins, French pins,
Springerle pins, pasta pins, and more.
Merchandise traditional Swiss/German baking with a
Springerle Display that highlights rolling pins with
Springerle cookie molds, cooling racks, and cookie sheets.
Wood is plentiful in the kitchen: from basic wooden spoons, to Italian spaghetti spoons, lemon reamers, and chopsticks, to the more decorative
Springerle molds and plaques, maplewood bowls with fluted sides, multiwood cutting boards, pastry boards, cheese boards, and butcher blocks.
Also available is a square-cut pin utilized for potato Lefse, but most often for making Hardanger Lefse, a variation of the potato version.*
Springerle Decorative Rolling Pins: Instrumental in the making of the popular cream-colored cookies that are embossed with images and flavored with lemon and anise.
The Life section's Edible Art:
Springerle Cookies for Christmas introduces a seasonal German foodway, and Why Dickens Wrote A Christmas Carol in Currents in Modern Thought takes a somewhat jaundiced look at the Christmas classic, worthy perhaps of Mr.