Warm the honey, sugar, butter and orange juice together until the sugar is dissolved. Mix in the egg. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix to a smooth dough. Roll out to a good 5 millimetre, ¼” thickness.

Paint with warmed honey and water mixture, then bake at 180°C, 350°F. for 20 minutes.

Cut into Christmas Tree shapes or use to construct a Lebkuchen-haus.

These biscuits swell up too! Leave a space equal to one third to one half of their diameter between each biscuit.

You have been warned!