GINGERBREAD RECIPES
Gingerbread and Ginger cookies arrived in Indiana as early as 1814
with George Rapp and his followers, who settled on the Wabash River
and built the town of Neu Harmonie, now known as New Harmony. Here
is their Gingerbread recipe from the Rappite Cookbook
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 3/4 cup molasses
- 1 and 1/2 cup flour 3/4 teaspoons soda
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoon ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
Cream shortening, add sugar and mix well. Add eggs and beat well.
Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with sorghum and
hot water. Bake at 375 for about 25 minutes.
The
following Lebkuchen/Gingerbread recipe is by Betty Kuebler- McGlothlin
of Brown County:
Ingredients:
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups sugar
- 2/3 cup honey
- 1 1/2 cups almonds cut in strips
- 4 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 teasp. soda 1/2 " salt
- 1 " cinnamon
- 1 " cloves
- 1/2 " allspice
- 1 cup diced mixed candied fruit.
Frosting: powdered sugar and evaporated milk Beat
eggs. Add sugar, honey, almonds, and mixed candied fruit. Add flour
mixed with soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves and allspice. Spread on greased
cookie sheets, on large and one small. Spread by dipping your hand
into flour and pressing towards the edges of the cookie sheet. Bake
at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. When almost cold, ice with powdered
sugar icing and sprinkle with colored sugar. When cold, cut in small
pieces about 2 - 1 1/2 inches. Store in air-tight container in cool
place.
Gingerbread Man Ornament
Supplies:
- 18" x 10" piece poster board
- 1 tan felt square
- 1 white felt square
- Scraps of red & green felt
- Scribbles fabric paint in black, red, white
- 1 Gick fine Multi glitter
- 8" piece red Pearl cotton floss
- Craft glue
- Pinking shears and regular scissors
- Pencil
Directions:
- Trace inside pattern on posterboard and on tan felt.
- Cut patterns out with regular scissors.
- Trace outside pattern on white felt and cut out with pinking
shears.
- Layer the 3 pieces together: white on bottom, poster board
in center and tan on top. Fold Pearl cotton in half to form hanger
& insert ends between felt layers.
- Glue all pieces together, including hanger.
- Cut bow tie from red felt, and bow tie center from green felt.
- Glue bow tie at neck and glue green piece at center of bow
tie.
- Decorate with fabric paint, similar to the way you would decorate
a cookie. While paint is still wet, sprinkle glitter on top of
wet paint. Let dry, shake off excess glitter.
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