For other uses of the word "gingerbread", see Gingerbread (disambiguation)

Gingerbread is a sweet that can take the form of a cake or a cookie in which the predominant flavors are ginger and raw sugar. Lebkuchen (or Pfefferkuchen is a traditional German product baked for Christmas, somewhat resembling soft Gingerbread. Toruń gingerbread (pierniki toruńskie Thorner Lebkuchen is a traditional Polish Gingerbread that has been produced since the Middle Ages in the Cake is a form of Food that is usually sweet and often baked. In the United States and Canada, a cookie is a small flat-baked treat usually round containing milk flour eggs and sugar etc Ginger is commonly used as a cooking spice throughout the world Sugar is a class of edible Crystalline substances mainly Sucrose, Lactose, and Fructose.

As a cookie, gingerbread can be made into a thin, crisp cookie (often called a ginger snap) or a softer cookie similar to the German Lebkuchen. This page is about the biscuit/cookie For the film see Ginger Snaps (film. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Lebkuchen (or Pfefferkuchen is a traditional German product baked for Christmas, somewhat resembling soft Gingerbread. Gingerbread cookies are often cut into shapes, particularly gingerbread men. For other uses of the word see Gingerbread Man (disambiguation. Traditionally it was dunked in port. To dunk is to dip Biscuit, Bread, Cake, or Doughnut into a Beverage, especially Tea, coffee, or cold milk Port wine (also known as Vinho do Porto, Oporto, Porto, and often simply Port) is a Portuguese, Fortified The first recorded mention of gingerbread being baked in the town dates back to 1793; however, it was probably made earlier as ginger was stocked in high street businesses from the 1640s. Year 1793 ( MDCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common High Street, or the High Street, is a Metonym for the generic name (and frequently the official name of the primary Business street Gingerbread became widely available in the 1700s. ^[1][2]

A variant dough is used to build gingerbread houses à la the "witch's house" encountered by Hansel and Gretel. Hansel and Gretel ( Hänsel und Gretel) is a Fairy tale of Germanic origin adapted by the Brothers Grimm and earlier by Giambattista These houses, covered with a variety of candies and icing, are popular Christmas decorations, typically built by children with the help of their parents. Candy, specifically sugar candy, is a confection made from a concentrated solution of sugar in water to which a variety of flavorings and colorants is added Icing, also called frosting, is a Sweet glaze made of Sugar that often also contains Butter, Water, Egg whites CHILD syndrome (or congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform erythroderma and limb defects) is a genetic disorder

Another variant uses a boiled dough that can be molded like clay to form inedible statuettes or other decorations. Molding is the process of Manufacturing by shaping pliable raw material using a rigid frame or model called a pattern. Clay is a naturally occurring material composed primarily of fine-grained Minerals which show plasticity through a variable range of Water content, and A significant form of popular art in Europe, major centers of gingerbread mould carving included Lyon, Nürnberg, Pest, Prague, Pardubice, Pulsnitz, Ulm, and Toruń. ||-||} Lyon, also known as Lyons in English is a city in east-central France. Pest (ˈpɛʃt Slovak: Pešť, Croatian: Pešta, Serbian: Пешта / Pešta is the eastern mostly flat part of Budapest Prague (ˈprɑːg Praha (ˈpraɦa see also other names) is the Capital and Largest city of the Czech Republic. Pardubice ( pronounced; Pardubitz is the capital City of the Pardubice Region, Czech Republic, lying on the river Elbe, 104 km east Pulsnitz ( Sorbian: Połčnica) is a town in the district of Bautzen, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Ulm (ˈʊlm is a City in the German Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the River Danube. Toruń Lublin Voivodeship Toruń (Thorn Torń Thorunium see also other names) is a city in northern Poland, on the Vistula River with population Gingerbread moulds often displayed the "news", showing carved portraits of new kings, emperors, and queens, for example. Substantial mould collections are held at the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń, Poland and the Bread Museum in Ulm, Germany. Toruń Lublin Voivodeship Toruń (Thorn Torń Thorunium see also other names) is a city in northern Poland, on the Vistula River with population Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Ulm (ˈʊlm is a City in the German Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the River Danube. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe.

Gingerbread was brought to Europe by the Crusaders. The Crusades were a series of military campaigns of a religious character waged by much of Christian Europe against external and internal opponents

The cake form tends to be a dense, treaclely (molasses-based) spice cake. Molasses or Treacle is a thick Syrup by-product from the processing of the Sugarcane or Sugar beet into Sugar. Some recipes add mustard, pepper, raisins, nuts, and/or other spices/ingredients to the batter. Mustard is a thick yellowish-brown paste with a sharp taste made from the ground seeds of a Mustard plant (white or yellow mustard Sinapis hirta Black pepper ( Piper nigrum) is a flowering Vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its Fruit, which is usually dried Raisins are dried Grapes They are produced in many regions of the world such as the United States, Australia, Chile, Nut is a general term for the large dry oily Seeds or Fruit of some Plants. In one variation, the cake omits raisins or nuts and is served with warm lemon sauce. The lemon ( Citrus × limon) is a hybrid in cultivated wild plants In the United States, the cake is more often served in the winter, particularly at Christmastime. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

Originally, the term gingerbread (from Latin zingiber via Old French gingebras) referred to preserved ginger, then to a confection made with honey and spices. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Old French was the Romance Dialect continuum spoken in territories which span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium Ginger is commonly used as a cooking spice throughout the world Honey is a sweet and Viscous fluid produced by Honey bees (and some other species and derived from the nectar of Flowers According to the A spice is a dried Seed, Fruit, Root, Bark or vegetative substance used in Nutritionally insignificant quantities as a Food additive

Gingerbread is often translated into French as pain d'épices (literally bread of spices). Pain d'épices is a French pastry also made with honey and spices, but not crispy. Pain d'épices ("bread of spices" sometimes translated as Gingerbread, is a French Cake whose ingredients contain a large dose

The town of Market Drayton in Shropshire is known as the "home of gingerbread" and this is proudly decreed on the welcome sign. Market Drayton is a small Market town in north Shropshire, England Shropshire (ˈʃrɒpʃɪə/ /-ʃə alternatively known as Salop or abbreviated in print only Shrops, is a county in the

References

See also

• Gingerbread man
• Gingerbread House example - Victorian Architecture

External links

• Making Gingerbread cookies
• Godecookery.com recipes
• Historical gingerbread recipes
• Nürnberg Gingerbread history and folklore
• gingerbread structures

For other uses of the word see Gingerbread Man (disambiguation. The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of Architectural styles predominantly employed during the Victorian era.

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