2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Tradition dictates that on Christmas Eve the most delicious dishes are served and interesting stories are told. So today we will treat you to fragrant gingerbread cookies and tell you about the long journey of the ginger man from the Middle East to the Christmas table.
So, the journey of the gingerbread man begins far in the past. It is believed that it was brought to England in the Middle Ages thanks to the Crusaders, who borrowed the recipe from the Arabs. The first recorded recipe for gingerbread on the island dates back to 1390, mentioning bread crumbs, honey and ginger.
Legend has it that the first gingerbread men were made especially for Queen Elizabeth I, who was fascinated by the fragrant sweets, made to resemble her suitors and companions, decorated with gold leaves. In her time, they were often served at the royal table.
Soon, gingerbread, and in particular gingerbread, became very popular throughout England and was sold mainly at fairs.
But soon the gingerbread men gained terrible fame because the witches took advantage of them. Women who practiced black magic began making ginger voodoo dolls for their enemies and eating them with pleasure.
The notoriety of the gingerbread men gradually spread throughout Europe, they were pointed out as instruments of evil. Fear in the people forced the judges in Delft, the Netherlands, in 1607 to even condemn them and announce the preparation and eating of gingerbread cookies.
In other parts of the continent, ginger-scented people were treated quite differently. Virgins in the North East of England often made ginger husbands for Halloween, which they ate with pleasure to make sure that in real life they would have a husband.
Gradually, superstitions gave way to greed, and gingerbread regained its old glory of great sweets that are worth eating with or without an occasion.
Traditional gingerbread continues to be flavored with ginger and honey instead of just sugar. It is usually made in a humanoid shape, with stocky feet and fingerless hands. And in a 1990 ad for an American computer giant, he was described as the perfect man - Cute and Quiet, who, if annoyed, could bite his head off.
Shortly after the ad was published, the authors were forced to download it, but there will always be room on our table for these fragrant gingerbread men with such an interesting story.
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