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| Erika's homemade gingerbread house! |
Two more days till Christmas! We picked up our gingerbread house from our favorite baker in town "Erikas Backstübe". And oh my! She does some of the yummiest bread, buns, pastries, and cakes in town. This however was specially ordered and made only for the Christmas season. But what's the history behind gingerbread house? Well, to sum it up... spice ginger which originated in the Middle East was brought by explorers back to Europe in the 11th Century. It became popular in Germany, with its heart in Nuremberg (that's Germany's gingerbread capital of the WORLD!), and became even more wide spread and popular when the brothers Grimm wrote Hansel and Gretel. :-)
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