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Recipe : ***** Gingerbread

Gingerbread
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Practical information

  • Prep time
    20 min
  • Cooking
    45 min
  • Difficulty
    Very easy
  • Pause
    4 h
  • Ready in
    5 h 05
  • Price
    Very friendly budget
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Pain d'épices (gingerbread) originally comes from China and was imported in France in the Middle Ages, in particular in East France, with the cities of Dijon and Reims as leading producers. Today, pain d'épices remains a specialty of Eastern France (Dijon, Alsace…).
 

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Recipe's Ingredients

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  • 4 cloves
  • 5 juniper berries
  • 6 aniseeds.
  • 200 g plain white flour
  • 200 g wheat flour
  • 200 g honey
  • 200 g sugar
  • 200 g (unsalted) butter
  • 80 g brown sugar
  • 40 g baking powder
  • 100 g orange zests
  • 30 g cinnamon
  • 20 g nutmeg
  • Recipe preparation steps

  • 1
    Grind
  • 2
    crush all seeds and spices ; thinly cut the orange zests.
  • 3
    In a sauce pan, put the honey, the sugar, 150 gr butter, and the milk ;add the spices and the zests then bring the whole to the boil. Let it warm down then mix with the flour and baking powder.
  • 4
    Keep 4 hours in fridge.
  • 5
    In a saucepan, melt the left butter ; use this to butter a loaf tin (use a brush) then cover the inside surface with the brown sugar (this will make the outside of the cake slightly crusty).
  • 6
    Pour the preparation inside the tin and bake in preheated oven at 340°F for 45 minutes.
  • Ready !