gingerbread
Sign in to saveGingerbread refers to a broad category of baked goods, typically flavored with ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon and sweetened with honey, sugar, or molasses. Gingerbread foods vary, ranging from a moist loaf cake to forms nearly as crisp as a ginger snap.
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- Gingerbread
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- Soft Swedish pepparkaka
- Food.main_ingredient
- Ginger root, honey or molasses
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Gingerbread refers to a broad category of baked goods, typically flavored with ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon and sweetened with honey, sugar, or molasses. Gingerbread foods vary, ranging from a moist loaf cake to forms nearly as crisp as a ginger snap.
==Etymology== Originally, the term gingerbread (from Latin via Old French '') referred to preserved ginger. It then referred to a confection made with honey and spices. Gingerbread is often used to translate the French term pain d'épices () or the German and Polish terms Pfefferkuchen and Piernik respectively ( because it used to contain pepper) or Lebkuchen'' (of unclear etymology; either Latin ', meaning "sacrifice" or "sacrificial bread," or German ' for loaf or German for life, '). Pepper is also referred to in regional names like Norwegian ' or Czech '' (originally peprník).