gingerbread
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Gingerbread refers to a broad category of baked goods, typically flavored with ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon and sweetened with honey, sugar, or molasses. Gingerbread foods vary, ranging from a moist loaf cake to forms nearly as crisp as a ginger snap.
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Within Vinony's link graph, gingerbread is referenced by 1,068 other articles, and connects out to king cake, ginger snap and ginger.
Vinony files it under American breads, American cakes and British breads.
Its subject is documented across 43 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Food.name
- Gingerbread
- Food.image
- Mjuk pepparkaka med lingon.jpg
- Food.caption
- Soft Swedish pepparkaka
- Food.main_ingredient
- Ginger root, honey or molasses
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Nutrition · Open Food Facts
Typical values per 100 g · averaged across 1,075 products
- Energy
- 352 kcal
- Fat
- 6 g
- — of which saturates
- 2.6 g
- Carbohydrates
- 68.4 g
- — of which sugars
- 35.7 g
- Fibre
- 4.3 g
- Protein
- 4.4 g
- Salt
- 0.6 g
via Open Food Facts · ODbL
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Finnish Gingerbread (14795888216).jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Varieties
- England and Scotland
- Americas
- Europe
- See also
- References
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Gingerbread refers to a broad category of baked goods, typically flavored with ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon and sweetened with honey, sugar, or molasses. Gingerbread foods vary, ranging from a moist loaf cake to forms nearly as crisp as a ginger snap.
==Etymology== Originally, the term gingerbread (from Latin via Old French '') referred to preserved ginger. It then referred to a confection made with honey and spices. Gingerbread is often used to translate the French term pain d'épices () or the German and Polish terms Pfefferkuchen and Piernik respectively ( because it used to contain pepper) or Lebkuchen'' (of unclear etymology; either Latin ', meaning "sacrifice" or "sacrificial bread," or German ' for loaf or German for life, '). Pepper is also referred to in regional names like Norwegian ' or Czech '' (originally peprník).
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