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Gingerbread

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Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

For 2 Gingerbreads, you will need:

1 8.8 oz honey
2 4.2 oz brown sugar
3 13.7 oz flour
4 13.7 oz rye flour
5 0.7 oz baking powder
6 4.4 oz butter
7 2 tablespoons rum
8 2 pinches salt
9 7.0 oz water
10 2 eggs
11 0.8 oz gingerbread spice mix

Change those ingredients for: 1 Gingerbread 2 Gingerbreads 3 Gingerbreads

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
19 min.	45 min.	1 hour 4 min.

Keeping: Several days in a towel bag.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Preheat oven to 180°C or 356°F.

Melt 4.4 oz butter in a small pan on low heat, then set aside.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

In another pan, put 8.8 oz honey.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Heat 7.0 oz water and pour into pan with honey. Add 4.2 oz brown sugar, mix well to dissolve, and add 2 tablespoons rum and a pinch of salt.

Stage 4 - 3 min.

Pour this mixture into a food processor bowl, then add 13.7 oz flour, 13.7 oz rye flour and 0.7 oz baking powder.

Stage 5 - 2 min.

Add 0.8 oz gingerbread spice mix.

Stage 6 - 2 min.

Then 2 eggs and melted butter, not too hot.

Stage 7 - 3 min.

Switch on food processor (if you have a Kenwood, use the "K" Beater) and knead at slow speed 2 or 3 minutes, until mix is homogeneous.

Stage 8 - 3 min.

Pour mixture into a cake mould, non-stick if possible.

Stage 9 - 40 min.

Cook for about 40 minutes.

Don't turn out immediately, but allow cool slightly first.

Remarks

Afficionados of ginger bread (like Robert) say that it's better not too fresh (the next day maybe), sliced and buttered.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
5,074 Kcal or 21,244 Kj	56 gr	494 gr	309 gr
254 %	21 %	47 %	47 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
372 Kcal or 1,557 Kj	4 gr	36 gr	23 gr
19 %	2 %	3 %	3 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 2 Gingerbreads : 5.80 €
Per Gingerbread : 2.90 €

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Source

Home made.

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Flamiche, Wiener Schnitzel, Strawberry and rhubarb crumble, Special small breads, Craquelin (sweet cracker dough), ... All
	Rye flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Benoîton, Fougasse with bacon and Comté, Lumberjack turnovers, Sandwich bread, Natural leaven, ... All
	Honey: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Hazelnut and orange cake, Nougat, Panettone, Cranachan, Chocolate madeleines, ... All
	Water: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chocolate eclairs, Creamy risotto with diced vegetables and flax seeds, Cooking sugar, Stewed plums, Quince and apple compote, ... All

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