Building a Gingerbread House

 I don't know if I could eat up a gingerbread house after all of the work that goes into making one, they are just so darn cute! But I do recall in one of my earlier posts about the cute little gingerbread boys and girls my friend gave me, how I gobbled those up with a cup of coffee...mmmm...so good! Has anyone out there actually made a gingerbread house?<br /><br />UPDATE: I had a video from the History channel here on making gingerbread houses with necco candies, but it was no longer working, so I went to You Tube and found this very interesting video from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/reinwaldsbakery">http://www.youtube.com/user/reinwaldsbakery</a>. The free gingerbread recipe is over 100 yrs. old and can be found <a href="http://www.reinwaldsbakery.com/content/how-its-made-gingerbread-houses">HERE</a>. Enjoy! You will need to pause the music player in the left side bar.<br /><br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qsluK-3_yu4?rel=0" width="640"></iframe>

Building a Gingerbread House

 I don't know if I could eat up a gingerbread house after all of the work that goes into making one, they are just so darn cute! But I d...

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Gingerbread Houses

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiluJ99alMcAMJCQ9xpnhUvCajqLq4j17iIWNtMxAJv-evx_eCdLIUA4mgYSlFIzaHA8kDpoJdGCzSXWbAWPeuW_3vwn-acMHExV8_ls062_-4-i45E8jGo8ahc92ndRm__efvjeU1O3FiC/s1600/ugc_gingerbread_2010_6720800_10991899_xl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiluJ99alMcAMJCQ9xpnhUvCajqLq4j17iIWNtMxAJv-evx_eCdLIUA4mgYSlFIzaHA8kDpoJdGCzSXWbAWPeuW_3vwn-acMHExV8_ls062_-4-i45E8jGo8ahc92ndRm__efvjeU1O3FiC/s400/ugc_gingerbread_2010_6720800_10991899_xl.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>This is one of 26 beautiful Gingerbread Houses you can view in a photo gallery at <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/photogallery/your-gingerbread-houses#slide_1">Martha Stewart's Website.</a> I can't imagine the time that goes into making one! Very creative! <br /><br />The harder German-style Gingerbread is often used to build <i>gingerbread houses</i> similar to the "witch's house" encountered by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansel_and_Gretel" title="Hansel and Gretel">Hansel and Gretel</a>. These houses, covered with a variety of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy" title="Candy">candies</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icing_(food)" title="Icing (food)">icing</a>, are popular <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a> decorations, often built by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child" title="Child">children</a> with the help of their parents.<br />Since 1991, the people of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen" title="Bergen">Bergen</a>, Norway, have built a city of gingerbread houses each year before Christmas. Named <i>Pepperkakebyen</i> (Norwegian for "gingerbread city"), it is claimed to be the world's largest such city. It's free for every child under the age of 12 to make their own house with the help of their parents. In 2009, the people of Bergen were shocked when the gingerbread city was destroyed in an act of vandalism.<br />Another type of model-making with gingerbread uses a boiled dough that can be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molding_(process)" title="Molding (process)">molded</a> like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay" title="Clay">clay</a> to form inedible statuettes or other decorations. Medieval bakers used carved boards to create elaborate designs.<br />A significant form of popular art in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, major centers of gingerbread mold carvings included <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon" title="Lyon">Lyon</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCrnberg" title="Nürnberg">Nürnberg</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pest_(city)" title="Pest (city)">Pest</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague" title="Prague">Prague</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardubice" title="Pardubice">Pardubice</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsnitz" title="Pulsnitz">Pulsnitz</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulm" title="Ulm">Ulm</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toru%C5%84" title="Toruń">Toruń</a>. Gingerbread molds often displayed the "news", showing carved portraits of new kings, emperors, and queens, for example. Substantial mold collections are held at the Ethnographic Museum in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toru%C5%84" title="Toruń">Toruń</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> and the Bread Museum in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulm" title="Ulm">Ulm</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqVhiZZ9nlVpt3pNrdUTCu_Sz2D-m1cefaE6pWT2DCwLNFIt_yzV7wS8y1ECrLdCYhep8r_02JagpnBKdUwLL0DYhEQLEnTpC0LPvy2OkMRhF7CU-_HtGaWYFqJuykytFwB32uu0aYcpFx/s1600/448px-Ginger_Bread_House_PC210088.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqVhiZZ9nlVpt3pNrdUTCu_Sz2D-m1cefaE6pWT2DCwLNFIt_yzV7wS8y1ECrLdCYhep8r_02JagpnBKdUwLL0DYhEQLEnTpC0LPvy2OkMRhF7CU-_HtGaWYFqJuykytFwB32uu0aYcpFx/s400/448px-Ginger_Bread_House_PC210088.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlkSS6h1NpeSDf_54OAHM5IQES2bMT7ToIh9rsEvF3aNn3G2no8g1QkUVKvLL-Qb9vYGhkyTxr38XJOobr7DWHW_NsfZRAwaPv37znF3ewidMPSJjydUufXR0FiLtgk91jSveDTjfCpZ4O/s1600/800px-Gingerbread_house_8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlkSS6h1NpeSDf_54OAHM5IQES2bMT7ToIh9rsEvF3aNn3G2no8g1QkUVKvLL-Qb9vYGhkyTxr38XJOobr7DWHW_NsfZRAwaPv37znF3ewidMPSJjydUufXR0FiLtgk91jSveDTjfCpZ4O/s320/800px-Gingerbread_house_8.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtzkKU23rRBgGjp19wldeNexVTY-lNt8TrlSY49xaDLkJs8xlHT0YZBca2VVqprjBpVtCVOScxaaKGClg0b_mQNwVk9rW_nFAvmzsDczUfmPcxALJQ9JdxHB_NHAnfMwOxJOhUZhyphenhyphenH9_ww/s1600/Gingerbread_house.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtzkKU23rRBgGjp19wldeNexVTY-lNt8TrlSY49xaDLkJs8xlHT0YZBca2VVqprjBpVtCVOScxaaKGClg0b_mQNwVk9rW_nFAvmzsDczUfmPcxALJQ9JdxHB_NHAnfMwOxJOhUZhyphenhyphenH9_ww/s320/Gingerbread_house.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9C08kIdxgr1lwiET36ROQFMN1ZxyuPtN22IEvdO5lTmkKtmXv9OYOarw_D0zRd7sAP65wfZX-_jPeeiGzPakFxfdTsAmEgd7sZW0iWfAEtGYa0TSSZR2Qvg0n6N_dG5j3sgEMw_lr5QN3/s1600/p_BKS047848.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9C08kIdxgr1lwiET36ROQFMN1ZxyuPtN22IEvdO5lTmkKtmXv9OYOarw_D0zRd7sAP65wfZX-_jPeeiGzPakFxfdTsAmEgd7sZW0iWfAEtGYa0TSSZR2Qvg0n6N_dG5j3sgEMw_lr5QN3/s320/p_BKS047848.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://www.bhg.com/christmas/gingerbread-houses/gingerbread-houses-to-make/?rb=Y#page=5">http://www.bhg.com</a>,  Victorian Gingerbread House<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHL7ZUOn-soUSdRfaKxUula8lE24BKFqXY6o0liraIouc0LLYakIpIPz0ieo10hiipU0sYqN8_x_L3rU0YowoCohWa5GZrjN7T7_gQOKr5-MWNE4ICP14eous_oWNilrjRZA-dOIQk1gxV/s1600/p_SIP872319.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHL7ZUOn-soUSdRfaKxUula8lE24BKFqXY6o0liraIouc0LLYakIpIPz0ieo10hiipU0sYqN8_x_L3rU0YowoCohWa5GZrjN7T7_gQOKr5-MWNE4ICP14eous_oWNilrjRZA-dOIQk1gxV/s320/p_SIP872319.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://www.bhg.com/christmas/gingerbread-houses/gingerbread-houses-to-make/?rb=Y#page=6">http://www.bhg.com</a>, Noah's Gingerbread Ark<br /><br />You can read more about the different varieties and the history of gingerbread at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gingerbread_house#Gingerbread_houses">Wikipedia.</a> You can also see a video on building a gingerbread house <a href="http://dj56v-christmasblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/building-gingerbread-house.html">HERE</a>. Read about the largest gingerbread city in Bergen, Norway <a href="http://dj56v-christmasblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/largest-gingerbread-city-in-bergen.html">HERE</a>.<br /><br /><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=0d4faecc-1471-4eda-9899-c0dba6b26c32" style="border: currentColor; float: right;" /></a></div>

Gingerbread Houses

This is one of 26 beautiful Gingerbread Houses you can view in a photo gallery at Martha Stewart's Website. I can't imagine the tim...

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