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Gingerbread

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Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

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For 3 Gingerbreads, you will need:

1 375 g honey
2 180 g brown sugar
3 375 g flour
4 375 g rye flour
5 30 g baking powder
6 180 g butter
7 3 tablespoons rum
8 3 pinches salt
9 300 g water
10 3 eggs
11 36 g gingerbread spice mix
Total weight: 2,046 grams

Change these quantities to make: 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.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Preheat oven to 180°C or 356°F.

Melt 180 g butter in a small pan on low heat, then set aside.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

In another pan, put 375 g honey.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Heat 300 g water and pour into pan with honey. Add 180 g brown sugar, mix well to dissolve, and add 3 tablespoons rum and a pinch of salt.

Stage 4 - 3 min.

Pour this mixture into a food processor bowl, then add 375 g flour, 375 g rye flour and 30 g baking powder.

Stage 5 - 2 min.

Add 36 g gingerbread spice mix.

Stage 6 - 2 min.

Then 3 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.

Keeping

Several days in a towel bag.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
7,611 Kcal or 31,866 Kj	84 gr	741 gr	463 gr
381 %	32 %	70 %	70 %

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).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Gluten, Milk, Egg

How much will it cost?

For 3 Gingerbreads : 8.70 €
Per Gingerbread : 2.90 €

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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: Sweet pastry, Chestnut Fudge Cupcakes, Coconut tuiles, How to seal a terrine or casserole dish, Sausage mushroom and cheese crumble, ... All
	Rye flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Jura bread, Benoîton, Fougasse with bacon and Comté, Natural leaven, Sandwich bread, ... All
	Honey: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Nonettes, Panettone, Nougat, Yeast-based flaky dough (for croissants), Cranachan, ... All
	Water: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Peanut rolls, Franche-Comté sticks, Raisin breads (pains aux raisins), Du Barry soup, Provençal braised carrots, ... All

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