Gingerbread Men

== Ingredients ==
* 2 tbsp butter
* ½ cup (scant) sugar
* 1 cup + 1 tbsp honey
* 1 tbsp gingerbread spices (ground cardamom, anise, cloves, cinnamon, ginger - mixed together according to taste)
* 1 small pinch of salt
* grated peel of 1 fresh lemon
* 2 tbsp sugar
* 1 egg yolk
* 2½ tsp baking soda
* 2 tbsp rosewater
* 2¼ cups flour
* vanilla or chocolate icing (optional)
== Directions ==
# Melt together the butter, sugar, and honey over low heat, then allow to cool.
# Add the gingerbread spices, salt, grated lemon peel, sugar, and the egg yolk; stir until lightened.
# Stir the baking soda into the rosewater and add to the egg yolk mixture.
# Combine this mixture with the flour and knead into a dough.
# Let stand overnight.
# Preheat the oven to 400°F.
# Generously butter a baking sheet.
# Roll out the dough on the sheet about ¼ inch thick, and cut the dough into long rectangles or stamp out little gingerbread men with a cookie cutter (the original "kathrinchen" are shaped like the pastries called "langues du chat", or "cat's tongues" - or ladyfingers with broadened ends).
# Whatever design you decide on, bake for 15 to 20 minutes.
# And, if you choose, frost with vanilla or chocolate icing when cookies are lukewarm.
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