The taste of Elisen gingerbread is characterized by its high almond and nut content of at least 25 percent. Their production is the supreme discipline of gingerbread making. Ours from the Hatzel brothers in the Fichtelgebirge come with a rich coating of creamy milk chocolate, which harmonizes perfectly with the aromas of almonds, hazelnuts and other spices.

The Hatzel gingerbread confectionery from Selb in the Fichtelgebirge region stands for masterly confectionery art, pure craftsmanship and recipes that have been handed down for generations. The Elisen gingerbread, for example, is still prepared according to the original recipe of master confectioner Lorenz Hatzel, who founded the confectionery and adjoining café in 1928. Today, his grandsons Christian and Michael Hatzel are the third generation to run the business. And in addition to classic baking utensils such as copper kettles, whisks, wooden spoons, rolling pins and dough scrapers, they still use the tried-and-tested manual spreading machine from the early days. Because the focus is still on the best ingredients and a flair for the right composition, Hatzel's Elisen gingerbread is almost incomparably good.

The forerunners of the gingerbread we know today originated in Belgium. Their recipes were first adopted in Aachen and later by the Franconian monasteries and were modified in each case. As, in addition to honey, gingerbread mainly requires rare spices from distant countries (such as cinnamon, cloves and aniseed, but also cardamom, coriander, ginger and nutmeg), the gingerbread tradition first developed in important trading cities such as Nuremberg and Basel - whose Nuremberg gingerbread and Basler Läckerli became world-famous. However, there are also many regional specialties, from whose traditions (and the goods available in each case) many different recipes have developed over time.

Sales description:

Gingerbread - whole milk icing

Ingredients:

Sugar, almonds, hazelnuts, egg white, marzipan(almonds, sugar, water), candied lemon peel, candied orange peel (orange peel, lemon peel, cedar fruit, glucose, fructose syrup, sucrose, acidifier: citric acid, antioxidant: Sulphur dioxide), wheat flour, humectant: sorbitol, milk chocolate(milk, emulsifier: soya lecithin), raising agents: ammonium carbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate, spices, wafers (contains gluten)

Origin / provenance:

Germany

Responsible food business operator:

Hatzel Lebkuchen-Konditorei GmbH
Ludwigstrasse 32
95100 Selb
Germany