Posted on 12/12/2016 9:44:31 AM PST by heterosupremacist
A favorite food of an Armenian monk, Gregory of Nicopolis, brought gingerbread to Europe around 992 AD and taught French Christians to bake it. Gingerbread was often used in religious ceremonies and was baked to be sturdy as it was often molded into images of saints. We can thank the Brothers’ Grimm for the idea of a gingerbread house through their tale of Hansel and Gretel. It didn’t take long for the German gingerbread guilds to pick up the idea and put it to a more festive use making snowy cottages made from the spicy-sweet treat.
Gather the family together, bake up some gingerbread and start building and decorating your very on gingerbread house. Give the recipe below a try.
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I made the mistake of getting a sub-prime, interest only, mortgage on my gingerbread house - and then I lost it all during the great gumdrop crash of ‘09/’10.
When our kids were young we would invite the extended family over with all the cousins and we would make gingerbread houses. Mr. Mercat made houses out of foam board cut to the shape of graham crackers. You glue on the graham crackers and then you have your canvas. We then had lots of things to glue on them with the glue being white icing made with confectioners sugar, egg whites, and some other obscure ingredient I can’t remember. We used cereal a lot since it was light weight. We also used pretzels of various sizes. It was a lot of fun and pretty much chaos to have 8 kids ranging in age from about 3 to 16 making the houses. The parents jumped in too. I miss those parties.
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