Gingerbread: A History of Santa's Favorite Cookie
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Ginger was domesticated by the Austronesian peoples more than five thousand years ago. They ate the rhizomes, used the leaves to weave mats, and also used the plant as medicine and in religious ceremonies. They carried the plant on long canoe voyages, spreading it through the Pacific.
In the fifth century BCE, Confucius ate ginger with his meals. Chinese seafarers were also recorded as taking ginger plants on their voyages to fend off scurvy.
The first mention of ginger being baked into sweets was the fifteenth century, when French and English festivals sold sweet treats called fairings. Some fairings were tied with ribbons for sweethearts to give. At the same time, Swedish nuns were baking gingerbread to aid indigestion. Their cookies would also be painted and displayed in church windows.
Gingerbread men may have been baked at the request of Queen Elizabeth I, but it seems that gingerbread husbands were being baked and eaten by superstitious maidens before that. Gingerbread rabbits were also eaten in England as a fertility booster. Queen Elizabeth I gave visiting dignitaries and courtiers gingerbread men in their own likeness. During this period, a pound of ginger in England was the same price as a full grown sheep.
By the seventeenth century, wealthy nobles were handing out gingerbread in their likeness. In Germany, the Nuremberg bakers’ guild held a monopoly on gingerbread production. Only those who owned their own smoke, or oven, could bake the elaborate creations. Even home bakers were restricted to Christmas and Easter.
Gingerbread houses date to the early nineteenth century. They were inspired by “Hansel and Gretel,” the Brothers Grimm tale that featured a house made of confectionery. They originated in Germany, but immigrant bakers were soon creating them in the United States, especially Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Today, gingerbread is still featured at fairs such as Oktoberfest in Munich, where men buy iced gingerbread hearts for their partners to wear as a necklace. Gingerbread people are baked in homes around the world, and museums, hotels, and other attractions often feature intricate and gigantic gingerbread houses. Walt Disney World in Florida even creates gingerbread carousels.
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Word search fans can find a puzzle on gingerbread in my new book, Large Print Baking Word Searches.
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Ginger was domesticated by the Austronesian peoples more than five thousand years ago. They ate the rhizomes, used the leaves to weave mats, and also used the plant as medicine and in religious ceremonies. They carried the plant on long canoe voyages, spreading it through the Pacific.
In the fifth century BCE, Confucius ate ginger with his meals. Chinese seafarers were also recorded as taking ginger plants on their voyages to fend off scurvy.
The first mention of ginger being baked into sweets was the fifteenth century, when French and English festivals sold sweet treats called fairings. Some fairings were tied with ribbons for sweethearts to give. At the same time, Swedish nuns were baking gingerbread to aid indigestion. Their cookies would also be painted and displayed in church windows.
Gingerbread men may have been baked at the request of Queen Elizabeth I, but it seems that gingerbread husbands were being baked and eaten by superstitious maidens before that. Gingerbread rabbits were also eaten in England as a fertility booster. Queen Elizabeth I gave visiting dignitaries and courtiers gingerbread men in their own likeness. During this period, a pound of ginger in England was the same price as a full grown sheep.
By the seventeenth century, wealthy nobles were handing out gingerbread in their likeness. In Germany, the Nuremberg bakers’ guild held a monopoly on gingerbread production. Only those who owned their own smoke, or oven, could bake the elaborate creations. Even home bakers were restricted to Christmas and Easter.
Gingerbread houses date to the early nineteenth century. They were inspired by “Hansel and Gretel,” the Brothers Grimm tale that featured a house made of confectionery. They originated in Germany, but immigrant bakers were soon creating them in the United States, especially Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Today, gingerbread is still featured at fairs such as Oktoberfest in Munich, where men buy iced gingerbread hearts for their partners to wear as a necklace. Gingerbread people are baked in homes around the world, and museums, hotels, and other attractions often feature intricate and gigantic gingerbread houses. Walt Disney World in Florida even creates gingerbread carousels.
If you enjoyed today’s video, make sure you like and subscribe for more.
Word search fans can find a puzzle on gingerbread in my new book, Large Print Baking Word Searches.
Thanks for watching!
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