ROMANOV RECIPES: Printed Tver Gingerbread Cookies

On 13 October, 1916, Nikolai Von Bunting, the Governor of Tver, wrote this letter to Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, and enclosed it with a box of his city's famous printed gingerbread cookies (pryaniki):

"Your Imperial Highness,
I take the courage to present to Your Highness and Grand Duchesses Tatiana Nikolaevna, Maria Nikolaevna and Anastasia Nikolaevna some of our Tver gingerbread cookies. I apologize for not bringing them personally, but the factories in Tver are restless, owing to a delay in the delivery of sugar, and I cannot leave the city. Your Imperial Highness’s most devoted and faithful servant
N. Bünting,
Governor of Tver"

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One traditional recipe of the Tver gingerbread cookies is in the archive of the noble Bakunin family (second half of the 19th century). I present this recipe in the video.

TVER GINGERBREAD COOKIES

2 cups flour
2 cups honey
1 cup yoghurt
1 cup sugar
1.5 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons freshly ground pepper
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Instructions:

Sift all the flour into the yoghurt, add baking soda; add the spices into warmed up honey, add to the flour mixture. Knead the dough. Grease a flat baking pan with butter, roll out and flatten the dough onto the greased baking pan. Bake until it starts browning and easily comes off the baking pan surface.
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Read about the fate of Nikolai Von Bunting here:
https://tverigrad.ru/publication/104-goda-nazad-v-tveri-pogib-muchenicheskoj-smertju-gubernator-nikolaj-fon-bjunting

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