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Message board > A curiosity question about Xmas gingerbread men
A curiosity question about Xmas gingerbread men
chud
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A curiosity question about Xmas gingerbread men
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Do they have any symbolic meaning related to Xmas somehow?
Thank you a lot.
Enjoy the tenderness of the mistletoe kiss like they do.
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22 Dec 2010
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libertybelle
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I can only see the picture when I open this message but not on the board! strange!
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22 Dec 2010
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perma
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same with me. And it �s a cute one! No idea on the gingerbread, sorry! |
22 Dec 2010
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Vickiii
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"The first gingerbread man is credited to the court of Queen Elizabeth
I, who favored important
visitors...with charming gingerbread likenesses of themselves...After
the Grimm Brothers � tale of
Hansel and Gretel described a house "made of bread," with a roof of cake
and windows of barley,
German bakeries began offering elaborate gingerbread houses with icing
snow on the roofs, along
with edible gingerbread Christmas cards and finely detailed molded
cookies. Tinsmiths fashioned cookie cutters into all imaginable forms,
and every woman wanted one shape that was different
from anybody else �s...Most of the cookies that hung on
nineteenth-century Christmas trees were at
least half an inch thick and cut into animal shapes or gingerbread
men..."
---"Gingerbread," Karen S. Edwards & Sharon Antle, Americana [magazine], December
1988 (p. 49+)
"For Christmas over a hundred years ago, Pennsylvania German children in Lancaster County
helped cut out and decorate foot-high cookies to stand in the front of windows of their stone or
brick houses. These cookie people--often gingerbread men and women iced with rows of buttons
and big smiles--were a cheerful sight to snow-cold passersby. Figural cookie-making was
practiced in Europe at least as far back as the sixteenth century--most of them were made using
intaglio molds rather than with cutters."
---300 Years of Kitchen Collectibles, Linda Campbell Franklin, 4th edition [Books
Americana:New York] 1998 (p. 183)
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22 Dec 2010
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chud
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Thank you Vickii for the detailed reference and magneto and Kate also for the links.
I �m also facing that problem with opening the pic. I �ve probably done something wrong, when I �d tried to attach it. Sorry for that.
Have a nice Holiday!
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22 Dec 2010
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