What is the gingerbread?

Gingerbread is a form of gingerbread cookie, commonly presented for Christmas. Traditional gingerbread can be presented simple, dressed with pieces of sugar or topping or candies forming its main features. Gingerbread women are also made, although gingerbread is much more common. Many holiday decorations include gingerbread. Usually, a gingerbread man is made with his feet slightly apart and outstretched arms, and many consumers have a tradition about the order of the limbs consumed. The queen's habit of joking with her court gives this story some confidence. This example of gingerbread was probably darker and spicy than the version we are used to, as well as stronger and more cakes. Elizabeth's Cooks enjoyed the opportunities for rich decoration, and the gingerbread men who gave away, may have included gold leaves and other eccentric decorative touches.

Gingerbread also has a long history in mainland Europe where it appeared as decorationNight tree and sophisticated holiday scenes. The gingerbread man often had a gingerbread house in which he lives, with gingerbread animals, trees and decorations made of candies and icing. Especially in Germany, Christmas decorations of gingerbread are often quite complicated and stems from the tradition of fantasy gingerbread creations from the 16th century that popularized Grimm's fairy tales and the story of Hansel and Gretel. In the 17th century, Nuremberg, Germany, became known as Perbread Capital, thanks to the complicated gingerbread scenes that the bakers would create, including complex houses, animals and people decorated with gold leaf, foil and other decorations. The gingerbread man probably achieved his zenite during this period, when only professional bakers gingerbread were to do gingerbread, except for the Christmas season, when the rules were released.

To make gingerbread men, cream 2/3 cup of butter, ½ cup of brown sugar, one teaspoon of cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon, cloves, two teaspoons of ground ginger and a pinch of salt. AtPut one egg, mix, and then add ¾ of a cup of molasses and mix again to integrate the ingredients thoroughly. Make three cups of flour, ½ teaspoon baking and 1 teaspoon for soda baking. Combine wet and dry ingredients and cool the resulting dough for one hour to run in thickness thickness of thickness (approximately ¾ centimeter).

using a cookie or knife cutter, cut the gingerbread men and transfer to a non -stick baking tray. Bake at 375 ° Fahrenheit (190 ° Celsius) for 8-10 minutes. Before decorating, cool completely onto the rack.