Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
An early form of gingerbread can be traced to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians who used it for ceremonial purposes. Gingerbread made an appearance in Europe when 11th-century Crusaders brought back ginger from the Middle East for the aristocrats' cooks to experiment with.
According to sugarcraft scholar Steven Stellingwerf (I want his job!), gingerbread may have been introduced to Western Europe by 11th-century crusaders returning from the eastern...
According to Rhonda Massingham Hart's Making Gingerbread Houses, the first known recipe for gingerbread came from Greece in 2400 BC. Chinese recipes were developed during the 10th century...
Gingerbread was a traditional confectionery sold at popular fairs, often given as a treat or token of affection to children and lovers "sweethearts" and known as a "fairing" of gingerbread – the name retained now only by Cornish fairings.
Gingerbread evolved slowly and its origins are indistinct, but ginger, the spice, began moving west from its Southeast Asian island origins by the first century A.D.; even earlier...
One book claims that the earliest known recipe for gingerbread is from 2400 BC, but it’s one of those factoids that swirls around the internet without support.
Gingerbread, from shaped cookies to elaborate gingerbread houses, has been a staple of holiday celebrations for over a hundred years—but the interesting history of gingerbread goes back much further than that.
From the simple bread loaf to the decorative gingerbread house, gingerbread's shape and form has evolved over centuries.
Key Takeaways: Gingerbread has a rich history, dating back to ancient times when it was used for ceremonial purposes. The Armenian monk Gregory of Nicopolis is credited with bringing gingerbread to Europe in 992 CE.
The earliest English recipes date to the 15th century, but those would be unrecognizable as gingerbread today. In the early cookbook Forme of Cury, “gyngebred” is made of crushed, dried...