Gingerbread Sentence Examples

The place is well known for its gingerbread (amaretti) and is also a manufacturing town.

Catholic monks in Europe made gingerbread treats to celebrate at holidays and special festivals.

The gingerbread was often cut into shapes, such as a heart or animal figure, and tied with ribbon.

By the 17th century, making gingerbread was considered a separate profession.

The inhabitants carry on the manufacture of brushes, gloves, stockings and gingerbread, and deal largely in cattle.

Bakers were given the exclusive license to make and sell gingerbread, except during Christmas and Easter.

The Brothers Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel popularized the idea of making small houses from gingerbread.

This story is about two children who walked through a dangerous forest and come upon a house made of gingerbread.

Using houses made from gingerbread as Christmas decorations is a tradition that began in Germany.

Master bakers were given the job of creating intricate works of art from gingerbread in preparation for the holidays.

The Swiss Catholic monks who founded the St. Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana in 1854 are credited with bringing the gingerbread custom to the United States.

For Christmas, they baked gingerbread as a treat for the ill patients under their care.

As settlers from various parts of Europe arrived in the United States, they also helped to spread the tradition of making houses of gingerbread to celebrate Christmas.

In addition to being fun to make and eat, gingerbread houses double as festive Christmas decorations.

The first thing you'll need to make your own gingerbread house is a good recipe for the dough.

LoveToKnow Recipes has an assortment of gingerbread recipes for you to try.

You may notice that different sweeteners are used in these recipes, but this can be attributed to various cultural differences in what constitutes the proper gingerbread formation.

Although American bakers often sweeten gingerbread with molasses, Germans prefer honey and British cooks may use syrup and brown sugar.

Occasionally, you will also find gingerbread recipes that incorporate cinnamon cloves, nutmeg, cardamom, or anise for an added boost of flavor.

When looking for gingerbread house decorations, it pays to be creative.

If you're too impatient to make a gingerbread house from scratch, or simply want to skip ahead to the fun of decorating, try looking for a project kit at your local craft or discount store.

These kits generally contain a pre-built gingerbread house, frosting mix, an assortment of candy, and instructions for decorating the house.

Bake gingerbread men, then tie them to your tree with ribbon bows.

While you can't actually hang it on your tree, a gingerbread house is also a great decoration to accompany the "good enough to eat" Christmas theme.

Build a rolling gingerbread house and have riders toss out special candy.

Decorate a gingerbread house together in your pajamas or make homemade Christmas gifts to hand out to neighbors.

Dessert is of particular importance, featuring pies, cakes and gingerbread cookies.

Use your favorite sugar cookie or ginger cookie recipe to make traditional winter or Christmas cookie shapes such as gingerbread people, snowflakes, Christmas trees, angels, Santas, stars, and bells.

Homemade food ornaments, such as hanging gingerbread men or popcorn balls, add a rustic touch to any tree.

Simplicity-This cute pattern has several toddler costumes for the holidays including reindeer, gingerbread man, and elves.

You can't go wrong with a banana gingerbread holiday bread.

Roll out the dough and cut into gingerbread men shapes with a cookie cutter.

It's fun to make these after reading the classic tale of The Gingerbread Man.

Just melt up a bunch of wax, color it a Christmasy color (such as red or green) add a pine or gingerbread scent if you'd like, and use pre-wicked candle wicks to make it even easier on yourself.

Meet him at the door wearing your new lingerie, with his favorite beer in one hand and a gingerbread man-shaped pizza (for the sake of the season) in the other-get creative.

Available in flavors like Mimosa, Gingerbread Man, Strawberry Daiquiri and Cinnamon Bun, they delight the senses while nourishing the skin.

Rope and twine making, iron-founding and brewing are carried on, and the town has long been famous for its gingerbread.

There is no charge for watching Tasty Towers or for eating gingerbread.

This consists largely of fairly open areas with stands of gingerbread plum and other small trees, acacia scrub and some Rhun palms.

The secretion with which the sac is filled is dark brown or chocolate in colour, and when fresh of the consistence of "moist gingerbread," but becoming dry and granular after keeping (see Musk).

The scented storybook is ideal for preschoolers who are just learning about the holiday and it is certain to instill fond memories with scents of mint, gingerbread, pine and apple pie.

Yankee Candle has some great options in scents like Christmas Cookie, Gingerbread, and Sparkling Cinnamon.

Gingerbread Houses - What says "Country Christmas" more than a homemade gingerbread house?

Gingerbread is as traditional for Christmas as an evergreen dripping with tinsel or candy canes.

Gingerbread shows up as gingerbread people or houses, but for a change of pace a gingerbread cake is fun, too.

The viewer will understand the meaning behind your Christmas photos and journaling without a background made of candy canes, presents, stockings, gingerbread men, and Christmas tree stickers.

Additional treats may include a wedding coffee bar, a selection of hot cocoas, eggnog, gingerbread, sugar cookies, and mulled wine or hot cider.

Miniature stockings, mittens, and small gingerbread houses are other Christmas themed options.

In addition, cruise ship chefs may also create large gingerbread houses to add to the festive decor.

If gingerbread sculptures and treats originated in this region, then cities may have large exhibits available to cruisers.

While you may admire Victorian gingerbread trim, it is never appropriate on a ranch style home.

You can also call yourselves Hansel and Gretel - in which case, be sure to carry either breadcrumbs or gingerbread.

The buildings are designed with a Victorian theme, and gingerbread accents are visible throughout the resort.

Gingerbread men that look as if they have already had a leg, arm or head bitten off.

It will be running Android OS 2.3 Gingerbread as well.

Any sturdy dough cookie, like gingerbread, will work.

Gingerbread houses have to be tasty as well as sturdy.

Just about any gingerbread recipe can be used for the construction of your gingerbread house but you will have to make a lot of it.

If you find that your gingerbread cookies turn out thin or spread a lot then I would suggest not using that recipe for your gingerbread house.

This royal icing recipe, from the gingerbread cookies recipe, is a good place to start.

It was nicknamed the "Gingerbread Palace" and included swimming pools, a museum, a skating ring, and Sutro Baths.

If choosing a scented candle to place in the ring, use autumn scents such as apple, apple spice or pie, cinnamon, vanilla, clove, gingerbread, pumpkin, berry, or an autumn leaves or harvest scent.

Make homemade sugar or gingerbread cookies, poke a hole in the top before baking, and tie to your tree with a pretty ribbon bow.

Decorating gingerbread houses is a fun project that's guaranteed to get you in the Christmas spirit.

In England, it was customary for unmarried women to eat gingerbread men as a ritual to help them meet suitable husbands.

Throughout the 1600s, Nuremberg, Germany was known as the "Gingerbread Capital of the World."

They're not all lounge pants covered with snowmen and gingerbread houses.

And here's the little shop where we used to buy gingerbread!

Interesting cards include scratch-and-sniff cards featuring a gingerbread house image and cards featuring the Peanuts cartoon characters gathered around a Christmas tree.

Lighted trees, candles, and garlands are perfect Christmas wedding decorations, but equally gorgeous are centerpieces of pine boughs and glass ornaments, miniature decorated trees, gingerbread houses, or candy cane bouquets.

Building a gingerbread house is a long-held Christmas tradition that will fill your house with the aroma of Christmas spices and can be a fun family project where everyone can share their gingerbread house ideas.

The teacher gave the pupils a gingerbread men recipe sheet.

Silver wedding bells atop a mirror with a large red, blue, gold, or green bow are simple and festive centerpieces, or small craft trees, bowls of simple ornaments, or gingerbread houses are great options.

This sort of gingerbread is baked daily and more sedulously than pure wheat or rye-and-Indian in almost every oven, and finds a surer market.

A public official is appointed to supervise the proper making of a form of gingerbread known as "Deventer Koek," which has a reputation throughout Holland.

As seen in commerce jujube fruits are about the size of a small filbert, having a reddish-brown, shining, somewhat wrinkled exterior, and a yellow or gingerbread coloured pulp enclosing a hard elongated stone.

The manufacture of biscuits and gingerbread, and of leather and farm implements is carried on, and there is considerable traffic in wood, wine, and the live-stock and agricultural produce of the surrounding country.