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Freshly baked Lebkuchen Lebkuchen are a traditional German Christmas cookies form of gingerbread, which were probably invented by Medieval monks in Franconia, Germany in the 13th century. ...
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Examples of the gingerbread, showing different shapes used Toruń gingerbread (Polish: ), also known as Polish gingerbread[1] is a traditional gingerbread in Polish cuisine made since Middle Ages in the city of Toruń. // Gingerbread covered with chocolate: Katarzynki(Catherines gingerbread), Gingerbread hearts, Gingerbread hearts covered with chocolate Filled gingerbread...
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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. Gingerbread cookies are often cut into shapes, particularly gingerbread men. Market Drayton in Shropshire, England, claims to be the place where gingerbread was invented[citation needed]. Traditionally it was dunked in port. 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. Ginger Snaps are a type of biscuit made with dried powdered ginger root, anise, and other spices. ...
Freshly baked Lebkuchen Lebkuchen are a traditional German Christmas cookies form of gingerbread, which were probably invented by Medieval monks in Franconia, Germany in the 13th century. ...
A gingerbread man is an anthropomorphic (human-like) figure made of gingerbread. ...
Shropshire (abbreviated Salop or Shrops) is a traditional, ceremonial and administrative county in the West Midlands region of England. ...
To dunk is to dip biscuit, bread, cake, or doughnut into a beverage, usually hot, especially tea or coffee, but the popular American snack milk and cookies features cookies dunked into cold milk. ...
A glass of tawny port. ...
Year 1793 (MDCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ...
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A variant dough is used to build gingerbread houses à la the "witch's house" encountered by Hansel and Gretel. These houses, covered with a variety of candies and icing, are popular Christmas decorations, typically built by children with the help of their parents. Artwork by Arthur Rackham, 1909. ...
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This cake has an icing made with sour cream. ...
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Another variant uses a boiled dough that can be molded like clay to form inedible statuettes or other decorations. A significant form of popular art in Europe,[citation needed] major centers of gingerbread mould carving included Lyon, Nürnberg, Pest, Prague, Pardubice, Pulsnitz, Ulm, and Toruń. Gingerbread moulds often displayed the "news", showing carved portraits of new kings, emperors, and queens, for example.[citation needed] Substantial mould collections are held at the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń, Poland and the Bread Museum in Ulm, Germany. One half of a bronze mold for casting a socketed spear head dated to the period 1400-1000 BC. There are no known parallels for this mold. ...
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Nuremberg coat of arms Location of Nuremberg Nuremberg (German: Nürnberg) is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. ...
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Pardubice (German: Pardubitz) capital of the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic on the Labe (Elbe) river. ...
Pulsnitz is a town in the district of Kamenz, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. ...
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The cake form tends to be a dense, treaclely (molasses-based) spice cake. Some recipes add mustard, pepper, raisins, nuts, and/or other spices/ingredients to the batter. In one variation, the cake omits raisins or nuts and is served with warm lemon sauce. In the United States, the cake is more often served in the winter, particularly at Christmastime. Molasses or treacle is a thick syrup by-product from the processing of the sugarcane or sugar beet into sugar. ...
Mustard on bread. ...
Binomial name L. Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. ...
Raisins Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ...
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Originally, the term gingerbread (from Latin zingiber via Old French gingebras) referred to preserved ginger, then to a confection made with honey and spices. For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ...
Old French was the Romance dialect continuum spoken in territories corresponding roughly to the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from around 1000 to 1300. ...
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Gingerbread is often translated into French as pain d'épices. Pain d'épices is a French pastry also made with honey and spices, but not crispy. Pain dépices A slice of pain dépices with crème anglaise on top Pain dépices (bread of spices), sometimes translated as gingerbread, is a French cake whose ingredients contain a large dose of honey, and some spices, including aniseed and possibly ginger. ...
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