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Gingerbread

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Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

For 1 Gingerbread, you will need:

1 ²⁄₃ cup honey
2 ¹⁄₃ cup brown sugar
3 1 cup flour
4 1 cup rye flour
5 1 tablespoon baking powder
6 ¹⁄₃ cup butter
7 1 tablespoon rum
8 1 pinch salt
9 ½ cup water
10 1 egg
11 1 tablespoon gingerbread spice mix

Change those ingredients for: 1 Gingerbread 2 Gingerbreads 3 Gingerbreads

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How long does it take?

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 ¹⁄₃ cup butter in a small pan on low heat, then set aside.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

In another pan, put ²⁄₃ cup honey.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Heat ½ cup water and pour into pan with honey. Add ¹⁄₃ cup brown sugar, mix well to dissolve, and add 1 tablespoon rum and a pinch of salt.

Stage 4 - 3 min.

Pour this mixture into a food processor bowl, then add 1 cup flour, 1 cup rye flour and 1 tablespoon baking powder.

Stage 5 - 2 min.

Add 1 tablespoon gingerbread spice mix.

Stage 6 - 2 min.

Then 1 egg 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
2,537 Kcal or 10,622 Kj	28 gr	247 gr	154 gr
127 %	11 %	23 %	23 %

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 1 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: Hazelnut and orange cake, Galette Charentaise, Crunchy little pieces of fish, Prune Far, Nonettes, ... All
	Rye flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Jura bread, Benoîton, Sandwich bread, Fougasse with bacon and Comté, Lumberjack turnovers, ... All
	Honey: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Cranachan, Nonettes, Hazelnut and orange cake, Chocolate madeleines, Panettone, ... All
	Water: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Vegetable stock, Minted Melon, Langoustine gratin, Poitevin twist, Pizza dough, ... All

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