Gebildbrot
Sign in to savethumb|Easter bunny made of yeast dough Gebildbrot () is a bread or pastry in forms of figurative representations, such as a human, hare, bird or other braidings of dough. Traditionally this pastry is made for and consumed on certain feasts of the liturgical year.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- bread
- Image
- Osterhaeschen aus Hefeteig.jpg
Show 1 more fact
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok
via Wikidata · CC0
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- History
- Well-known Gebildbrote
- References
thumb|Easter bunny made of yeast dough Gebildbrot () is a bread or pastry in forms of figurative representations, such as a human, hare, bird or other braidings of dough. Traditionally this pastry is made for and consumed on certain feasts of the liturgical year.
== History == In early forms of funeral feasts, spiced breads were eaten at funerals to ward off evil spirits.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gebildbrot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.