2006-12-15 11:36:08 · 7 answers · asked by Erica K 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Gingerbread is a sweet that can take the form of a cake or a cookie in which the predominant flavor is ginger.
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.
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.
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, major centers of gingerbread mould carving included Lyon, Nürnberg, Pest, Prague, Pardubice, Ulm, and Toruń (Polish: Toruńskie pierniki). Gingerbread moulds often displayed the "news", showing carved portraits of new kings, emperors, and queens, for example. Substantial mould collections are held at the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń, Poland and the Bread Museum in Ulm, Germany.
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.
2006-12-15 11:43:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gingerbread is a type of cake made from a lot of spices, most especially ground ginger (and cinnamon and probably cloves) There is so much spice in the cake, it comes out dark brown.
2006-12-15 12:19:40 · answer #2 · answered by Clarkie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bread ( more like a spice cake)
Made with molasses, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, brown sugar, butter and flour.
I make it just to make the house smell
2006-12-15 12:06:17 · answer #3 · answered by Marge Simpson 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a bread dough flavored with ginger (a spice.)
2006-12-15 11:38:37 · answer #4 · answered by Just Ducky 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a dough bread with ginger flavoring same flavoring as ginger bread cookies have
2006-12-15 11:48:27 · answer #5 · answered by Makachi A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's like a cookie that tastes really good and is easy to make.
2006-12-15 11:40:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read all about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subwoofer
2006-12-15 11:38:42 · answer #7 · answered by Ted B 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋