History-at-home | Gingerbread

History-at-home | Gingerbread

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This historic gingerbread recipe comes from a handwritten cookbook by Emma Hasselbach from Falkenstein in the Taunus/ Germany. She kept this book since December 1916 and filled it especially with...

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Ingredients

  • 1 kilogram of flour (e.g. strong wheat flour)
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 500 grams of raw cane sugar
  • 8 grams of cloves, crushed
  • 15 grams of cinnamon, powder
  • About 1/4-1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 500 grams artificial honey (e.g. Lyle's Golden Syrup or a light beet syrup)
  • 1 cup water (or milk)

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