Homemade gingerbread - 34 cooking recipes

In many national cuisines, gingerbread becomes a decoration for the festive table. For example, in Great Britain it is customary to bake gingerbread at Christmas. Delicious and beautifully decorated Christmas gingerbread cookies are an indispensable attribute of Catholic Christmas in European countries and the USA. In Russia, the most famous are Tula gingerbread. Although on the territory of our country gingerbread was baked not only in Tula, but also in other cities. For example, Gorodets gingerbreads, Vyazma gingerbreads, and also Kozuli - Arkhangelsk gingerbreads were once known. In Europe, the most “gingerbread” cities are the Polish city of Torun, the German city of Nuremberg, and the Czech city of Pardubice. Mainly, honey gingerbreads are prepared here, as well as gingerbread. The word “gingerbread” comes from the words “pryaznik” and “pryaznik”. The basis for making gingerbread is the so-called yarning (hence the name - gingerbread). Spinning was a specific step in gingerbread baking that is no longer used today. Yarning is the processing of gingerbread with oil on all sides, both bottom and top. The famous Kolobok from an old Russian fairy tale, as I remember, was also “spun in butter.” What types of gingerbread are there? There are three known types of gingerbread: printed gingerbread