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427.1 | Head for your supermarket counter... | STAR::BONDE | | Sun Nov 23 1986 10:24 | 5 |
| You might want to check out the December issues of _Woman's Day_ and
_Family Circle_. They each do articles on gingerbread houses every
holiday season as a matter of course. The mags are cheap ($.89) and
you get good "how to" instructions, the recipes for the gingerbread and
the various frostings, and photos of the finished products.
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427.2 | Good Housekeeping, too | FDCV13::SANDSTROM | | Mon Nov 24 1986 13:48 | 11 |
|
Good Housekeeping has a bunch of different styles this season
from thatched huts to italian villas and country homes. I
haven't looked too closely yet, but I'm sure they include
recipes and basic assembly instructions like they usually do.
Once you read the basics, let your imagination go!
Happy "house hunting",
Conni
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427.3 | HINTS ON GINGERBREAD HOUSE | SKYLRK::WILDE | Dian Wilde | Mon Nov 24 1986 15:58 | 21 |
| HINTS AND COMMENTS FROM EXPERIENCE:
The recipe in any old cookbook for gingersnaps will give you a good
basic recipe for the dough.
cut the forms for the house in cardboard, roll out the dough approx
1/4 inch and use the forms to cut out pieces. Bake as per recipe.
TRIM the pieces back to the shape of the form while the cookie
is still warm and then cool completely. This will give you
true edges to "cement" together with your "mortar" frosting.
Don't use butter in your frosting, it will spoil...just use
powdered sugar, egg white and (optionally) water to make a paste.
When you want to make a peaked roof, use a cardboard wedge to
brace the pieces until the frosting is set.
Other than that, be creative!
D
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427.4 | cast iron molds | MURPHY::GLADDING | | Mon Nov 24 1986 17:37 | 8 |
| An October issue of Woman's Day offered a neat cast iron
mold to send away for in the shape of two different houses.
You just press the cookie dough in the molds and bake. No
need to make patterns, cut out the baked cookie, fight with
uneven walls, etc. The form says allow 4-6 weeks for delivery,
so I don't think I'll make it in time for this Christmas.
I've also seen these forms at the Joy of Cooking store in
the Manchester Mall. Can wait to try it out!
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427.6 | Gingerbread house video | TOPDOC::PHILBROOK | Chico's Daddy | Tue Nov 25 1986 00:23 | 16 |
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From the Nov. 86 issue of Woman's Day:
"Make a gingerbread house with Mrs. Tullo's video - only $29.95.
Send check or money order for $29.95 plus $2.00 S&H to:
Caledonia Investments
P.O. Box 1653-WD
Mineola, NY 11501
-step-by-step instructions -Delicious to eat
-templates included -Gift for all ages
-40-minute tape -sense of pride and accomplishment
-VHS or Beta -satisfaction guaranteed
-Creative & fun to make -specify VHS or Beta
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427.7 | Hints on Houses | NAC::MCCRORY | | Tue Nov 25 1986 21:15 | 28 |
| Quick suggestions if you've never made a gingerbread house before:
Don't over-do the decorations (it's easy to get carried away), it
will be too sweet and nobody will be able to eat it at Christmas.
I use a 'fast-cement' version of the powdered sugar/shortening/water
recipe to hold the house together - use as little water as possible.
It holds the sides/roof together better than the decorative icing
and it dries faster (so you can get on to the decorating.) Use
the waterier icing for decorating the outside - it's prettier but
doesn't hold as well.
Make stained glass windows by cutting windows in the walls before
baking and filling them with crushed lifesavers and cook. Let the
wall cool COMPLETELY before lifting it or your window will fall
out. Also, make sure that the pan or paper is WELL greased or your
lovely window will become one with the pan.
Go to a candy store and look for special candies to decorate with.
I've used curly candy as wisps of smoke out of the chimney, chocolate
bark as a picket fence (first thing to be eaten), those chewy green
mint things shaped like leaves as bushes, coconut sprinkled on icing
for snow, licorice whips as strings of lights to decorate the shrubs,
candy canes as street lights, small chocoate wafers as roof shingles,
jelly beans as bricks or stones for walls, ... (I have a tendency
to over-decorate. Last year I made a back patio out of hard candy
and built a little hot-tub out of toffee.)
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427.8 | Recipe for Construction Gingerbread | MSTIME::WISE | Dick Wise | Wed Dec 03 1986 23:37 | 18 |
| Construction Gingerbread
1 cu Solid White Shortening 1 t Baking Soda
2 cu Old-Fashioned Molasses 3 t Baking Powder
1/2 cu warm Water 3 t Ground Ginger
7 cu All-purpose Flour 1 t Ground Cinnamon
1/4 cu Sugar 1 t Salt
Melt shortening then add molasses and warm water. Mix in dry
ingredients until smooth, adding flour gradually. If necessary, knead last
of flour into dough until smooth and flexible. Chill, then roll out dough
to about 1/8 inch thickness on cookie sheets. Cut out pattern, remove
excess dough from cookie sheet, and bake in a 350-degree oven for about 12
minutes. Makes enough for a medium sized house with 8-by-6-inch sides, 9
1/2-by-8-inch front and back, and two 10-by-7-inch roof pieces. When cool,
cement together with frosting and when it's firm, decorate it to suit your
fancy.
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427.9 | gingerbread boys cookies | SKYLRK::WILDE | Dian Wilde | Wed Dec 10 1986 15:25 | 67 |
| I have used this one several times and little people really like it!
GINGERBREAD BOYS
INGREDIENTS:
2 and 1/2 cups sifted flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons powdered ginger
1/2 cup butter (or butter flavored crisco)
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup molasses
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup hot water
DECORATIONS:
"red hots" cinnamon candies
raisins
ICING:
2 cups sifted powdered sugar
1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
approx. 2 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
TOOLS:
Gingerbread boy cookie cutter
sifter
1 large sauce pan
1 large bowl for dry ingredients
dry flat surface for rolling dough
rolling pin
cookies sheets
PROCEDURES:
Sift flour, ginger, and salt together and set aside.
Melt butter or crisco in saucepan over low heat, remove from heat
and add sugar and molasses.
Disolve soda in hot water.
Add flour mixture to molasses mixture alternately with the soda water,
beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Mix well.
cover dough with plastic wrap and chill for 2-3 hours.
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees farenheit.
Using a small bit of dough at a time, keeping the rest chilled:
Roll out to 1/8 inch thickness and cut with cookie cutter. Transfer
to ungreased cookie sheet approx 2 inches apart. Press in red hot
candies to make buttons and raisins to make eyes. Bake 10 to 12
minutes, cool 2-3 minutes on cookie sheet and remove to rack to
finish cooling.
While the cookies are cooling, make the frosting:
Mix sugar, salt, vanilla and add cream, by drops until the frosting
is smooth and holds it shape. separate 1/3 of the mixture and
dye yellow to make hair for the cookies, the rest can be left
white or dyed other colors. Use a decorating tube to pipe outlines
of cuffs, collars, boots, etc. on cookies.
The cookies can be made ahead and iced a day or so before serving.
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427.5 | Ginger Molasses Cookies | IMNAUT::CLEMINSHAW | | Fri Dec 12 1986 11:49 | 22 |
| Ginger Molasses Cookies
4-1/2 cups unbleached flour 1 lb. brown sugar
4 tsp. baking soda 1-1/2 c. shortening or margarine
2 tsp. cinnamon 2 eggs
4 tsp. ginger 1/2 c. molasses
1 tsp. cloves granulated sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
Sift flour with soda, spices, and salt.
Cream sugar and shortening until light and fluffy. Add eggs one
at a time, beating well after each. Beat in molasses. Stir in
sifted ingredients. Drop by rounded tablespoons into bowl of sugar.
Place on greased baking sheet, sugar-side up, about 2 inches apart.
Bake in pre-heated 375-degree oven about 15 minutes. Cool on racks.
Makes about 50 large, chewy, spicy cookies.
H A P P Y HOLIDAYS!
Peigi
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427.10 | Royal Icing for Gingerbread Houses and Men | TLE::EIKENBERRY | A goal is a dream with a deadline | Wed Dec 12 1990 00:21 | 20 |
| Use any of the icings in the "royal icing" family. Here's one from
the Cake Bible:
1 large egg white, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
In a large mixing bowl place the egg white and sugar and beat,
p/referably with the whisk beater, at low speed until the sugar is
moistened. Beat at high speed until very glossy and stiff peaks form
when the beater is lifted (5 to 7 minutes). Tips of peaks should curve
slightly. If necessary, more powdered sugar can be added. Use at once
to make decorations, keeping the bowl covered with a damp cloth.
There's a note in the margin indicating that the utensils and egg
whites must be absolutely grease free. "Royal icing will break down if
subjected to even a trace of grease, so all equipment should be washed
well and rinsed in very hot water before using."
--Sharon
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427.11 | Easy Gingerbread House | CUPMK::CLEMINSHAW | Conanne | Mon Dec 17 1990 15:37 | 11 |
| I made one using gingerbread mix as the dough for the house.
Since I wasn't going to eat the house, it didn't have to be
that great! I made a paper design for the house, cut the walls
and roof and windows out of the dough using the paper pattern.
I also baked a pan of brownies to serve as the foundation. I
stood the walls up in the baked pan of brownies, frosted the edges,
put the roof on, and frosted it. I think I also frosted the brownies
and covered them with coconut for snow. I glued the windows on with
frosting, and then decorated the house. It was fun!
P.
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427.12 | Gingerbread (wild blueberry) | FSOA::BERICSON | MRO1-1/L87 DTN 297-3200 | Mon Aug 24 1992 12:54 | 50 |
| Mods, I searched for good old fashion gingerbread... is it a bread, or
a cake.. or maybe a bar... but only found houses and men. So move if
more appropriate someplace else.
Wild blueberry gingerbread
I got this out of the Globe a year or more ago and spilled on it .. so have to
type it out... it is fabulous! Just made some more this weekend.
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp ground cinnamon
2 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground clove
1/2 cp vegetable oil
1 cp granulated sugar
2 eggs
3 tbs molasses
1 cup buttermilk (I used dried)
2 cups wild blueberries (frozen work)
Extra granulated sugar
Whipped cream (see elsewhere.. but only heathens would spray on)
Preheat oven to 350
Grease 10in springform pan or deep, fluted apn with removable base. Line pan
with parchment... grease paper. Dust pan with flour... tap out excess.
Sift together flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves.
In bowl beat oil and sugar till well mixed. Add eggs and molasses and mix more.
With mixer on low, beat in buttermilk alternately with flour/spice mix.
Fold in blueberries.
Put in pan and bake for 35 - 45 minutes.. cool on rack remove from pan...
AND LET YOUR TASTEBUDS GO WILD!
Bob
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427.13 | Pumpkin Gingerbread... | PINION::PINION::COLELLA | I feel like a nomad... | Fri Nov 20 1992 20:37 | 41 |
| Here's the recipe for pumpkin gingerbread that I mentioned in another
note.
Pumpkin Gingerbread Loaves
2 cups all purpose flour 1/3 cup margarine or butter
1/2 cup packed brown sugar 1/4 cup milk
2 tsp. baking powder 1 TBSP grated ginerroot OR
1 tsp. ground cinnamon 1 tsp. ground ginger
1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/3 cup finely chopped
1 cup canned pumpkin walnuts
1/2 cup molasses 2 TBSP sugar
2 eggs
Grease bottom and sides of four 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 1 1/2-inch loaf pans
(bottoms and halfway up the sides).
Stir together 1 cup of the flour, the brown sugar, baking powder,
cinnamon, and baking soda. Add pumpkin, molasses, eggs, margarine or
butter, milk, and gingerroot or ginger.
Beat with an electric mixer on low to medium speed 30 seconds or until
combined. Beat on medium to high speed 2 minutes, scraping sides of
bowl occasionally. Add remaining flour; beat 2 minutes more or until
mixed. Divide batter evenly among pans.
For topping, stir together walnuts and sugar; sprinkle evenly over
batter. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 40 to 50 minutes or until a
toothpick inserted near the center of each loaf comes out clean. Cool
loaves in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove from pans. Cool
thoroughly on wire racks. Makes 4 loaves, 8 servings each.
To freeze: Wrap each loaf tightly in moisture- and vaporproof wrap.
Seal, label, and freeze for up to 6 months. To thaw, let stand loosely
covered, at room temperature for 1 hour. Or, to micro-thaw, place 1
unwrapped loaf on a microwave-safe paper towl. Micro-cook, uncovered
on 30% power (medium-low) for 1 to 1 1/2 minutes.
Enjoy!
Cara
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427.14 | Lebkuchen recipe wanted | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Tue Oct 05 1993 19:08 | 13 |
| ...so I bought _Gingerbread:_99_Delicious_Recipes_ for a dollar.
Fine. Then the author kept writing about lebkuchen, and I thought
"Great! I've only had lebkuchen once, and I liked it a whole lot,
and now I'll find out how to make it."
No. There is no recipe for lebkuchen, although I did learn that it
is made with honey that has been aged for a year, that it is a honey
gingerbread, and that it can be made in molds and/or as cookies, but
I knew that.
Does anyone have a recipe for lebkuchen?
Ann B.
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427.15 | lebkuchen | KAOFS::M_BARNEY | Dance with a Moonlit Knight | Wed Oct 06 1993 11:49 | 7 |
| Got a couple at home, but I haven't tried them out -
I am afraid they will not live up to expectations, since my
grandmother used to send us the originals from Nuremburg every
year. Balsen (german company, often found in european deli's) also
makes a pretty good lebkucken if you want to refresh your memory....
Monica
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427.16 | | GODIVA::bence | Life itself is the proper binge. | Thu Oct 07 1993 17:23 | 8 |
|
re .-1
Ah, yes, Balsen cookies. "Contessa" (lebkuchen lightly coated with
milk chocolate) are my absolute favorite store-boughten cookie.
<clb>
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427.17 | gingerbread pancakes | GOLLY::CARROLL | a work in progress | Fri Oct 08 1993 11:58 | 36 |
| These were surprisingly great! They come out sort of like soft ginger
snaps.
Gingerbread Pancakes (From Jane Brody's Good Food Gourmet)
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(this is from memory but I'm pretty sure it's correct or at least very
close)
1 c flour
1 egg
1 tsp baking power
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 c apple juice concentrate, thawed
1/4 c boiling water
2 tsp instant coffee
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp salt
2 T oil
Preheat greased griddle.
Dissolve the coffee in the water.
Mix the wet ingredients. Mix the dry ingredients. Mix the two
together.
Pour 2 T (this is smaller than ordinary pancakes) of batter on the
griddle. Brown lightly on each side. (Don't cook them thoroughly like
regular pancakes - don't use the "cooked on the edges" or "popped
bubbles" technique - they should belightly browned and very moist in
the middle.)
Top with apple butter or sauted apples.
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427.18 | ginger snaps | STRATA::RDOZOIS | justice will prevail... | Fri Nov 12 1993 00:21 | 9 |
| HI,
Does anyone have a recipe for ginger snaps.
My fater loves 'em and I'd like to make
him some for the holidays.
thanks,
renee
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427.19 | recipe for ginger snaps | CADSYS::CADSYS::RICHARDSON | | Mon Dec 06 1993 11:58 | 24 |
| 3/4 c shortening
1 c brown sugar, packed
1 egg
1/4 c molasses
2 1/4 c flour
2 t baking soda
1 t cinnamon
1 t ginger
1/2 t cloves
(1/4 t salt - I don't use it)
granulated sugar
Mix thoroughly shortening, brown sugar, egg, and molasses.
Blend in remaining ingredients except granulated sugar.
Cover and chill for one hour.
Heat oven to 375 oF.
Shape dough by rounded teasponnsful into balls.
Dip tops in granulated sugar.
Place balls sugared side up 3 inches apart on lightly breased baking
sheet.
Bake 10-12 minutes or until just set.
Immediately remove from baking sheet.
Makes four dozen cookies.
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427.20 | pretty please, with piped icing on top? | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Tue Dec 21 1993 13:42 | 9 |
| Dear Monica Barney,
Sometime in the new year, would you consider posting your lebkuchen
recipe(s)? I will not blame you if the results are not Ultimate
Perfection.
I will blame me.
Ann B.
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427.21 | oh, the embarrassment! | KAOFS::M_BARNEY | Dance with a Moonlit Knight | Tue Dec 28 1993 14:08 | 7 |
| Dear Ann,
I did say something about lebkuchen didn't I? Please forgive a
forgetful pregnant woman (can I blame this on hormones?) and I
will go looking for the recipes pronto!
Monica
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427.22 | Lebkuchen: the first recipes | KAOFS::M_BARNEY | Dance with a Moonlit Knight | Wed Jan 05 1994 20:32 | 159
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