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Charlie’s #Birthday is tomorrow. I can officially decorate our home for Christmas and I can’t wait. Finding out It’s getting closer to the time to prepare for #Christmas which is associated with so many traditions. I can’t wait to let Charlie and David know.
Come help me tell Charlie and David December 14th is Gingerbread Decorating Day. I found Peanuts Holiday Gingerbread House Kit. I would like to put together with my family. Would you like to join us?
How to Celebrate Gingerbread Decorating Day
- The best way to celebrate Gingerbread Decorating Day is to make your very own Gingerbread Cookies and then decorate the Cookies with your friends and family. Decorating Cookies allows lots of room for creativity, and can be fun for the whole family! Decorating Cookies can be the most fun when each member of the family makes, bakes and decorates his or her own Gingerbread Man, women or even Pets. Remember the sky’s the limit when baking and decorating Cookies.
- Gingerbread can be decorated with many different things, from a simple Icing made from Water and Icing Sugar to more creative Icings, including Lemon or Buttercream Icing. Don’t forget Gingerbread Men can also be made into Cookie Sandwiches, with delectable fillings made from Vanilla or Lemon Cream, Orange Buttercream, or even Ice Cream which would be my first choice. What about you?
- If you’re feeling confident, you could decide to make a Gingerbread House which would allow for a lot of creativity, because Gingerbread can be decorated with virtually anything that strikes your fancy, including Gumdrops, Candy Canes, or Peppermints, just to name a few choices.
- After you’ve made and decorated your Gingerbread Cookies, your friends and family can exchange Cookies,. Or the Cookies can then be eaten or hung up on the Christmas Tree as decorations. Here is a tip for you. Gingerbread tends to keep for long periods of time, so there is no need to worry that the Cookies will start to rot or crumble. Get to baking.
- Once your done decorating Gingerbread Cookies make festive-inspired Cocktails for the adults to enjoy including a Pumpkin Tart Cocktail. If you don’t care for Pumpkin, you could use Carrot Juice, Tequila, Cinnamon, and Oregano. This is a unique Cocktail, which is bound to wow your friends and family that has that real festival feel thanks to the Cinnamon.
- If you have the times and means you could even host a Gingerbread House competition amongst your loved ones. After all, there is nothing wrong with a bit of friendly competition, is there? You can set up a station with Gingerbread House pieces, colorful Candy, Icing ie Frosting, and so much more as long as you think outside the box. Which is a fun way to get all of the people you love together and to really get that festive feeling.
Facts About Gingerbread Decorating Day
Gingerbread Decorating Day was founded so that we all have the opportunity to practice the fun festive past-time of decorating a Gingerbread House. Of course, you don’t have to create a Gingerbread House on Gingerbread Decorating Day you may want to make Gingerbread in the shape of Santa or a Reindeer and decorate these instead. Remember the choice is yours.
After all, does anything give you more of a festive feeling than the smell of freshly baked Gingerbread which is quite divine! However, a lot of people do not realize that Gingerbread has a pretty interesting history. In fact, did you know that baking Gingerbread was deemed a specific profession? I didn’t know that and neither did Charlie or David.
Back in the 17th Century, you could only make Gingerbread if you were a professional Gingerbread Baker, unless it was Easter or Christmas when the rest of the population could partake in the fun! We don’t know about you, but that seems like a pretty awesome job, right?
In Europe, gingerbread was deemed a form of popular art. To be honest, Gingerbread is still art in a lot of people’s eyes! Have you seen some those Gingerbread Houses on Pinterest and Instagram? Which was a pretty big deal back in the day. Molds of Gingerbread were used to display actual happenings through the portrayal of new rulers, as well as their parties, spouses, and their children!
Did you know there are Museums around the world that house substantial mold collections. Two of the most famous Museums are the Bread Museum in Ulm, Germany and the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń, Poland. I wish they was closer so I could check out the Museums but there is no, way I can go that far. How about you?
History of Gingerbread Decorating
Did you know Gingerbread is thought to have been brought to Europe by an Armenian Monk named Gregory of Nicopolis in the 10th Century who had brought the necessary Spices back from the Middle East, and then taught the art of Gingerbread making, what with the Spices and the Molasses, to French Christians until his death.
Gingerbread then made its way around Europe–in the 13th Century, it made its way to Sweden, where Gingerbread was baked by Nuns to help soothe indigestion. There, Gingerbread slowly became popular to paint the Cookies and use them as window decorations as well.
The 13th Century also saw Gingerbread make its debut in the City of Toruń in Poland, where the Honey supplied by the local villages made the Cookies especially delicious. To this day Pierniki Toruńskie, as they are known in Poland, is an icon of Poland’s national cuisine.
From the 17th Century onwards, Gingerbread was sold in Monasteries and pharmacies in England, where it was thought Gingerbread was to have medicinal properties, and Gingerbread became the symbol of the Town of Market Drayton, which was particularly known for Gingerbread.
In the play, “Love’s Labour’s Lost”, Shakespeare himself wrote, “And I had but one penny in the world, thou should’ st have it to buy Gingerbread.” In 1875, the Gingerbread Man was first introduced to holiday traditions through a fairytale published in St. Nicholas magazine, where he was depicted as a holiday treat that was eventually eaten by a hungry Fox.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
