gingerbread
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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.
Key facts
- Food.name
- Gingerbread
- Food.image
- Mjuk pepparkaka med lingon.jpg
- Food.caption
- Soft Swedish pepparkaka
- Food.main_ingredient
- Ginger root, honey or molasses
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Nutrition · Open Food Facts
Typical values per 100 g · averaged across 1,075 products
- Energy
- 352 kcal
- Fat
- 6 g
- — of which saturates
- 2.6 g
- Carbohydrates
- 68.4 g
- — of which sugars
- 35.7 g
- Fibre
- 4.3 g
- Protein
- 4.4 g
- Salt
- 0.6 g
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Varieties
- England and Scotland
- Americas
- Europe
- See also
- References
- External links
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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “gingerbread” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.