{"id":18,"date":"2025-06-11T10:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/?p=18"},"modified":"2025-06-11T10:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:54:06","slug":"leipziger-lerche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/2025\/06\/11\/leipziger-lerche\/","title":{"rendered":"Leipziger Lerche"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Next on my Leipzig dessert quest is the Leipziger Lerche. This pastry was originally filled with lark &#8211; that is, until the saxonian King banned hunting songbirds in 1876! Now, it\u2019s baked with almonds, nuts, and a cherry. Unfortunately, although it has a fascinating history, I wasn\u2019t a huge fan of the pastry itself.<\/p>\r\n<p>[see: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leipziger_Lerche]<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-170\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/458\/2025\/06\/IMG_9049-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/458\/2025\/06\/IMG_9049-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/458\/2025\/06\/IMG_9049-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/458\/2025\/06\/IMG_9049-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/458\/2025\/06\/IMG_9049-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/458\/2025\/06\/IMG_9049-676x901.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/458\/2025\/06\/IMG_9049-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>(Side note: I would highly recommend Quarkkeulchen, a Saxonian speciality, which I tried at Barthel\u2019s Hof &#8211; delicious!)<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next on my Leipzig dessert quest is the Leipziger Lerche. This pastry was originally filled with lark &#8211; that is, until the saxonian King banned hunting songbirds in 1876! Now, it\u2019s baked with almonds, nuts, and a cherry. Unfortunately, although it has a fascinating history, I wasn\u2019t a huge fan of the pastry itself. [see:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/2025\/06\/11\/leipziger-lerche\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/bach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}