GINGERBREAD recepies
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 recepie 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 recepie 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 You 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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