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Gingerbread has a confused identity in this country, referring, as it does, simultaneously to moist cakes, crumbly bars, and a whole army of spicy biscuit men. The first sort, although arguably the finest incarnation of gingerbread, need not trouble us here, given the difficulty of balancing bits of cake on a Christmas tree – it is the hard sort, with its festive spicing, which will be displacing the cheap chocolate reindeer on my tree this year. I'd always assumed this was simply a basic biscuit with added ginger – but in fact, gingerbread has a long and varied history.
姜饼的历史
Medieval gingerbread
Mrs Beeton
Old-fashioned gingerbread biscuits
Grasmere gingerbread
Lebkuchen
Medieval gingerbread
Mrs Beeton
Old-fashioned gingerbread biscuits
Grasmere gingerbread
Lebkuchen
好啦，在熟悉了姜饼的发展史之后，我们赶紧学习怎样进行姜饼制作吧~！
Perfect gingerbread biscuitsMakes
about 30 biscuits depending on size
340g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
? tsp salt
1? tsp grated nutmeg
1? tsp ground cloves
2 tsp ground cinnamon
3 tsp ground ginger
225g unsalted butter, softened
340g soft brown sugar
1 egg, beaten
75g crystallised ginger, finely chopped
225g icing sugar, optional
Hundreds and thousands, optional
1. Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and spices together into a mixing bowl.
2. Beat together the butter and sugar, and then add the egg, beating it in gradually, so the mixture doesn't curdle. Stir into the flour to make a dough, and then mix in the crystallised ginger.
3. Put the dough between two sheets of clingfilm, and roll out to the thickness of a ?1 coin. Refrigerate for half an hour. Pre-heat the oven to 180C.
4. Cut out the biscuits, and put on a greased baking tray. Cook for about 10 minutes, and, when straight out of the oven, poke a hole in each and allow to cool on a rack before threading a ribbon through.
5. Decorate with writing icing, or sift the icing sugar, and then mix to a stiff consistency with boiling water. Brush over the cooled biscuits, and decorate with hundreds and thousands while still wet.
340g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
? tsp salt
1? tsp grated nutmeg
1? tsp ground cloves
2 tsp ground cinnamon
3 tsp ground ginger
225g unsalted butter, softened
340g soft brown sugar
1 egg, beaten
75g crystallised ginger, finely chopped
225g icing sugar, optional
Hundreds and thousands, optional
1. Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and spices together into a mixing bowl.
2. Beat together the butter and sugar, and then add the egg, beating it in gradually, so the mixture doesn't curdle. Stir into the flour to make a dough, and then mix in the crystallised ginger.
3. Put the dough between two sheets of clingfilm, and roll out to the thickness of a ?1 coin. Refrigerate for half an hour. Pre-heat the oven to 180C.
4. Cut out the biscuits, and put on a greased baking tray. Cook for about 10 minutes, and, when straight out of the oven, poke a hole in each and allow to cool on a rack before threading a ribbon through.
5. Decorate with writing icing, or sift the icing sugar, and then mix to a stiff consistency with boiling water. Brush over the cooled biscuits, and decorate with hundreds and thousands while still wet.
编辑小注：tsp为teaspoon 的缩写，即“一茶匙的量”。
