TOP-4 recipes with photos of making gingerbread in English at home. Cooking tips and secrets. Video recipes.
Fragrant gingerbread cookies remind of childhood, St. Nicholas Day, New Year and Christmas are immediately remembered. The tradition of baking gingerbread for the holidays has existed for at least 300 years, although they have been baked all over the world for more than a thousand years. Moreover, in all countries they are prepared in different ways with the addition of various components that improve the taste and aroma of products. Gingerbread in English has gained wide popularity in Europe. Let's find out the TOP-4 of the most delicious recipes for their preparation for the festive table.
Culinary tips and secrets
- Various additives are added to the gingerbread dough that change their taste. Honey is most often used. But no less popular are gingerbread cookies with the addition of ginger. In addition to these additives, nuts, dried fruits, candied fruits, chocolate, allspice, cloves are used,
- nutmeg, cinnamon and other spices.
- Gingerbread cookies are stored for a month in a box under a lid at room temperature. It should be borne in mind that natural (not chemical) honey is an excellent preservative. Therefore, baked goods with it can be stored for a long time. In addition, after a week of storage, the gingerbread will gain even more taste and aroma.
- Gingerbread is prepared not only for eating, but also for decorating the New Year tree, which is especially popular with children. To do this, before baking, make a small hole in the products using a cocktail tube, into which you then insert a string into the finished baked goods.
- The shape of the gingerbread can be not only round, square or oval. Use for baking beautiful forms in the form of funny people, houses, snowflakes, stars, bells and other paraphernalia that are elements of European fairy tales.
- To decorate English gingerbread, they use classic sugar, lemon or chocolate icing. They also make painted gingerbread, like a real work of art.
English recipe for gingerbread with honey
Adding ginger to the gingerbread dough will improve the taste of the finished product, from which the gingerbread will become noble and refined. That is why gingerbread and honey cakes have gained wide popularity all over the world and have become a real festive delicacy.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 398 kcal.
- Servings - 30
- Cooking time - 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Honey - 350 g
- Sugar - 200 g
- Chopped almonds - 1 tbsp.
- Chopped candied fruits - 50 g
- Grated nutmeg - on the tip of a knife
- Chopped cinnamon - 2 tsp
- Lemon zest - half a fruit
- Ground cloves - to taste
- Soda - a pinch
- Flour - 500 g
- Lemon juice - 3 tablespoons
- Rum - 1 tablespoon
- Powdered sugar - 200 g
Cooking gingerbread with ginger according to the English recipe:
- Heat honey with sugar on the stove and cool to room temperature.
- To this mass, gradually add chopped almonds, candied fruits, spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, lemon zest) and rum.
- Add slaked soda with lemon juice (1 tsp), gradually add flour and knead the dough.
- Roll out the finished dough into a thin layer, cut out with special cutters and put greased on a baking sheet.
- Send the gingerbread cookies to bake in a preheated oven to 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
- Make the icing with powdered sugar and lemon juice, stir the food, and cover the gingerbread with it.
English gingerbread with candied fruit
Gingerbread has become extremely popular throughout Europe. And the addition of candied fruits gives it additional taste and aroma. Give English gingerbreads an intricate herringbone or star shape for a festive look.
Ingredients:
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Margarine - 125 g
- Sugar - 175 g
- Pounded almonds - 3 kernels
- A mixture of spices (ginger, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg) - 2 tsp
- Salt - a pinch
- Candied fruits - 75 g
- Flour - 500 g
- Soda - 0.5 tsp
Cooking English gingerbread with candied fruits:
- Melt margarine on the stove, add eggs, sugar and mix thoroughly. Add mashed almonds to the mass.
- Stir the spice mixture, salt, flour, soda and gradually add everything to the liquid mass.
- Knead the dough well, shape it into round gingerbread cookies with a diameter of about 5 cm and place on a greased baking sheet.
- Send the English gingerbread cookies with candied fruits to bake in a preheated oven to 180 degrees for 30 minutes.
Classic english christmas gingerbread
Gingerbread cookies in Europe are the same symbol of Christmas as we have Olivier salad for the New Year. They are baked at home, sold in shops, at Christmas markets and given to relatives. Gingerbread cookies are loved by all Europeans, but they have their roots in England.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 350 g
- Sugar - 100 g
- Butter - 100 g
- Candied Ginger - 50 g
- Ground ginger - 1 tsp
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Honey - 3 tsp
- Orange juice - 50 ml
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Baking powder - 1 tsp
Cooking Classic English Christmas Gingerbread:
- Grind the candied ginger with a blender until smooth.
- Combine orange juice, sugar, honey, eggs and beat with a mixer.
- Add chopped ginger (candied and ground), cinnamon, flour, baking powder to the mass and knead the dough. Form it into a "ball" and refrigerate for half an hour.
- Roll out the dough to a thickness of 4 mm, cut the cookies into curly notches and place the dough pieces on a baking sheet.
- Send the cookies to a heated oven at 200 ° C for 10 minutes.
Scottish gingerbread
Get together with the whole family and bake very tender, aromatic, moderately sweet gingerbread cookies with a sweet apple filling.
Ingredients:
- Butter - 50 g
- Milk - 100 ml
- Brown sugar - 200 g
- Honey - 150 g
- Flour - 500 g
- Salt - a pinch
- Ground dried lemon zest - 0.5 tsp
- Cocoa powder - 1 tablespoon
- Apple jam - 200 ml
- Ground hazelnuts - 50 g
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Soda - 15 g
Cooking Scottish Gingerbread:
- Combine butter, milk, sugar, honey and heat over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Do not bring to a boil.
- Combine all dry ingredients: flour, salt, cocoa powder, ground hazelnuts, ground cinnamon, soda, lemon zest.
- Pour the dry mixture into the milk-honey mixture and knead the soft dough. Wrap it in plastic and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Roll out the dough to make two identical cakes and bake them at 200 ° C for 12 minutes. Then cool to room temperature.
- Brush one crust with apple jam and cover with a second crust on top.
- Grease the surface of the gingerbread with any glaze and cut it into 4-5 cm cubes.
