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We like to call this place "Lebkuckooland". Madison Square Park is bringing back its family-favorite Gingerbread Boulevard, a two-week event featuring a walk-through of life-size gingerbread houses. Attendees can walk inside the houses constructed from ginger bricks and decorated with frosting, peppermint sticks and gum drops, while they sip on hot chocolate to escape the cold. Nuremberg: Building the Foundation Gingerbread, as we know it today, originated from Medieval European cooking.
Because of this, ginger was baked into little crisps, that eventually became cookies in Western Europe. Many fairings were decorated with gilded edges and would be the foundation of what would today be known as the gingerbread house. This house is typically decorated with an assortment of frosting and candied elements.
This practice stems from the tradition of baking ginger into small cookies, called snap cookies during European and North American holidays. The general characteristics of a gingerbread house is that the end product should resemble some form of architect, but nowadays, it is very loosely applied.
A gingerbread house can be made to look like anything, with the important rule of it being constructed entirely of edible items, namely candy and gingerbread. Bakers took descriptions of this house from the story and began approximating their own take on a gingerbread house.
This would be most popular during christmas, as it was common place tradition to consume ginger snap cookies around this time as well. The purpose of a gingerbread house is two fold-to provide an artistic medium and of course to eat.
Gingerbread houses are commonly made nowadays to express creativity in a more fun and visually vibrant medium. Plus, afterwards, you can eat your creation, something all children can greatly appreciate. As stated previously, Gingerbread houses in Germany originated from Bakers emulating the description from Hansel and Gretel. In Europe and North America, it was already common place to make Gingerbread mould carvings with artistic depictions.
This tradition was most popular during christmas, where a great number of goods were baked from Gingerbread. The tradition of gingerbread house making began with Europeans and Americans baking gingersnap cookies around Christmas. These cookies tend to be decorated with elaborate designs, usually gilded edges with pictures of animals, houses or other architecture.
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