Gingerbread Men Used to Be Eaten for More Than Just Flavor
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photograph by Antoine Bootz Remember the fairy tale about the man-shaped gingerbread cookie that sprang from the oven and ran off to elude a trail of hungry captors before he was eventually devoured by a wily fox? The story, first published in America in 1875 in a children’s magazine called St. Nicholas, has become a classic.
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Thinkpad “Shape [dough] to your fancy,” Amelia Simmons recommends to housewives in American Cookery, the first published American cookbook, vintage 1796. Entrepreneurial peddlers later picked up on the trend and started selling fancifully shaped, handmade tin cookie cutters that, since, have become desirable collectibles.
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