One typical tradition we Swedes have is the gingerbread biscuit. The first documented time of the appearance of the gingerbread was back in the 14th century. Initially the gingerbread biscuit was baked by nuns and was sold in the pharmacy as medicine for a lot of different complaints.
Hans, a king, used to get prescriptions of gingerbread from his doctor because of his bad temper. There is a myth about the biscuit that say that they are supposed to make you kind hearted and generally nice.
The gingerbread biscuits are associated with christmas, but you still eat them all year round, just in smaller amounts. About fifteen years ago we only ate them at Christmas time but that has changed over the last years.
At Christmas we swedes usually intend to bake a lot of gingerbread houses, tiny miniatures of houses with walls and roofs made of gingerbread.
3 comments:
Wow! Anna, I love gingerbread and the one you show in the photo looks great! Yummy!:) And I'm impressed about how it's been made:)
We only bake small gingerbread hearts, stars, Christmas trees etc. in Polish homes and we eat them or put them on the Christmas tree to decorate it:)
But what you do in Sweeden must be real art!:)
Merry Christmas:)
Jo
I see I misspelt 'Sweden'in my comment, I'm sorry about that:)
regards \Jo
I love gingerbread! :) I always do them for X-mas. I wrote it on my blogger: "There's no X-mas with no gingerbread in my house". I really like to do them - it's great fun. ;)
I've got an idea. Maybe could you send to me your receipt on gingerbread and then I could send to you my receipt? I mean if you're OK with this.;)
Ronnee
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