Gingerbread dough: recipe. The recipe for a gingerbread house

Gingerbread cooked for all the holidays and made different shapes and sizes. Their name is due to the spices, which for the first time were part of the recipe. Gingerbread dough, the recipe of which initially included honey and molasses, has undergone some changes today. The fact is that sugar has become much more accessible than honey, and the products began to be made on it. Below we will look at the various test cases.

Gingerbread dough: recipe from the depths of centuries

As mentioned above, gingerbread is one of the oldest sweets in Russia. According to some information, they baked in the 10th century. When modern housewives cook a gingerbread, the recipe, of course, is different from that of old Russian sweets. Nevertheless, we can distinguish three types of test - honey, sugar and sugar-honey. It includes both sugar and honey. You can prepare the dough in two different ways. With a simplified version of the product is faster stale. The second option requires more time, but the gingerbread cookies stay fresh and soft longer. Below we consider both methods.

Brewed dough

This is the most difficult option, which can use the hostess, who decided to make gingerbread. This recipe is easy to master and delight in the future, seven delicious gingerbread.

• So, we need to take 750 g of flour, 1 glass of sugar, 60 g of honey, 100 g of oil, 1 egg, 0.5 teaspoons of soda, 0.5 tsp. Spices to taste, 60 ml of water. If all proportions are met, approximately 1 kg of dough will be obtained.

As you can see, the gingerbread recipe is not as complex as it might seem at first glance. So, in order to make the brewed dough, put honey, sugar, water in a saucepan and heat, not bringing to a boil. Then it is recommended to add half the flour and spice to the mixture. Stir the workpiece for the product best with a wooden spatula. And if you leave the flour in the syrup without stirring for at least a couple of minutes, then in the test there will be lumps, from which it will be difficult to get rid of. Cool the resulting mass to room temperature, and then add the rest of the flour, eggs and baking powder. The finished dough should be soft. To make a delicious dish, the dough should be immediately started to be cut, otherwise the finished gingerbread will be substandard. This recipe for gingerbread dough is the closest to the original vintage version.

A simple test case

Mistresses who do not want to spend a lot of time preparing the test, the following recipe will do. In the pan, put honey, add butter, crushed with sugar, spices and mix all the ingredients for a couple of minutes. Then add the flour (preferably sifted) and soda and knead the dough. If crystals formed in honey, then it must be heated, but in no case do not bring to a boil. He will lose the flavor from this, which means that the product will not be so delicious. Honey for gingerbread should be at room temperature. What consistency should be a gingerbread dough - the recipe with a photo will only show approximately. It is necessary to be able to determine this by touch.

We make a Christmas treat

The recipe for a gingerbread house differs from the usual one in that it should be more aromatic and festive. There are a lot of options, and each hostess can choose the one she will like. For example, a beautiful gingerbread dough (recipe from Gerda) is obtained if you precisely observe all proportions.

• So, we need: 0.5 kg of honey, 0.3 kg of butter and 0.3 kg of cane sugar, 50-100 g of cocoa (depending on whether you want to make a house chocolate or not). You will also need 3 spoons of rum, a little baking powder, a pinch of two cinnamon, a pinch of cardamom powder, a little ground clove, a pinch of ground ginger and a little fresh grated root. Of the spices, it is still recommended to add a pinch of ground anise seeds, a bit of tubercle (ground), ground nutmeg, vanilla, zest of one orange and lemon. This proportion will need a little more than 1 kg of flour.

Of course, every housewife gets a unique gingerbread dough. Recipe Skripkin, for example, can be slightly upgraded, removing so many spices. The test recipe with changes is given below.

• We will need: 500 grams of honey, 300 grams of sugar, 300 grams of butter, 50 grams of cocoa, a peel of one lemon, orange peel, vanilla to taste.

Thus, it can be seen that the gingerbread dough (recipe) and products from it do not require high cooking skills and even the beginner's host.

Make a gingerbread dough: a recipe for a biscuit

Many people know gingerbread men only as characters of the animated cartoon "Shrek". Meanwhile, this is a traditional cookie for Catholic Christmas, which you can please children on any other day.

So, how to cook this gingerbread dough? See below for a recipe.

We need:

• 3 eggs.
• 1.5 cups of molasses.
• 6 glasses of sifted flour.
• Approximately 300 grams of margarine.
• 250 g of sugar.
• 2 tablespoons of cocoa or instant coffee.
• 4 teaspoons of soda, extinguished in vinegar.
• A bit of ground ginger.
• A pinch of ground cinnamon.
• A pinch of clove in powder.

How to make a cookie?

For a cookie, we need a template first and, of course, a gingerbread dough. The recipe was given above, but we will duplicate it again. Thanks to the pattern, the little men will be the same and beautiful. Gingerbread and products from it differ in that they perfectly hold the form, and from them you can make any figures. The process of preparing the test is not difficult. It is necessary to mix oil, spices, soda and salt in a saucepan, and then introduce sugar and honey.

You can stretch everything with a spoon, or you can beat it with a mixer. The cocoa is dissolved in a couple of spoons of boiling water, let cool to room temperature and put into the dough together with the eggs. After this, add 3.5 cups of flour, whilst continuing to beat the mass with a mixer. Add the flour that remained, and knead the dough with your hands. It should not be too dense to easily roll out. Remove the finished product in the refrigerator for a minimum of 5-6 hours, previously wrapped in food film. After that, take out the dough and put it on the board, rolling it into a thin layer. So that it is not sticky, sprinkle the rolling pin with flour. However, the flour should be handled carefully, so as not to spoil the taste of cookies. From the rolled up dough we cut out the shape of little men and bake until ready. After that you can make glaze and decorate ready-made cookies.

Variations in the recipe

Some components can be replaced. For example, to take vegetable oil instead of cream, and instead of soda add baking powder. But ginger should be present in any case. It is he who gives the liver a unique taste, which is loved by adults and children all over the world. If you do not have molds, you can make a template yourself from thick paper or cardboard.

Not every housewife in the kitchen has a confectionery syringe. But do not get upset, because it can be replaced with a so-called confectionery bag. To do this, simply cut the corner of the plastic bag, and the glaze is already squeezed out of it.

Colored glaze is obtained by adding food coloring to it. If the cookies are large, then colorful buttons can be put out of sweets.

Gingerbread house №2: ideas for inspiration

Gingerbread and products from it - a perfect gift for relatives and friends for any holiday. Below we will consider the technology of making a gingerbread house. The recipe for a gingerbread house is not very different from a simple gingerbread recipe.

Preheat the honey, margarine and sugar. Beat with whisk, adding cocoa, until all the lumps disappear. The mass should be homogeneous and should not boil.

Mix flour with spices and baking powder. If desired, you can add orange peel.

In honey warmed up mass to enter in two receptions of eggs and rum or cognac.

In a honey mix to mix a flour with spices and carefully knead a dough. It should not flow. On average, it takes about 15-20 minutes to mix. Do not try to mix all the flour at once. The dough will gradually cool down. It must be put in the refrigerator, pre-wrapped in food film. Give the test to rest for at least 5 hours.

"Building" a sweet house

Make a pattern of parts of the house - the walls, the roof and other figures that you think fit. The dough should be rolled out and cut out the details of the house. Bake for 20-25 minutes until cooked.

The foundation of the future house must be gingerbread. It is to it that the walls are attached.

The windows are made of marmalade or caramel. However, in conditions of high humidity, the candy caramel is likely to melt. Therefore, it is best to take sweets without stuffing or marmalade slices.

It is not worth taking transparent caramel. It melts badly, and if it melts, it still flows out of the "windows" of the house, spoiling the entire product. If the house has high humidity, it is not recommended to cook caramel by itself - it will still melt and flow out. And this means that the work will go wrong. But in any case, the most important thing is a well-prepared gingerbread. Recipe (Pohlebkin offers a few other proportions) assumes the dough is dense and non-sticky. This must always be remembered.

For the house, you need to make a glaze, or an aysing. To do this, powdered sugar with proteins, lemon juice and starch is rubbed so that there are no bubbles. The finished mass is laid out in a confectionery bag or in a packet of milk with a cut off corner. You can use a regular file for papers, it is quite dense, and it is convenient to work with it.

Gingerbread on sugar

We examined several ways how to make ginger dough. The recipe without honey is very popular now, as honey is a rather expensive product. Below we will consider the ancient recipe for gingerbread without honey. They turn out somewhat unusual, but also very tasty. So, for the test, we need:

• 300 grams of sifted flour (in principle, more can be specified in the recipe, but then the dough will turn out to be very steep).
• 40 g of oil.
• 50 g of sugar.
• Cinnamon and cardamom to taste.
• 50 g raisins.
• 1 egg.

Mix sugar, cinnamon and cardamom.

Then mix sugar with spices, flour and egg with butter. The dough should be rather dense, but not steep, otherwise the product will be harsh and quickly stale.

Put small balls of dough on a greased baking sheet. Alternatively, you can roll out the dough to small cakes and make them curly edges.

Bake for 15-20 minutes. However, if you make balls, they should be in the oven a little longer to completely bake.

If you want, cover the finished products with glaze, sugar pearls and chocolate. If you strictly follow the recipe, they will be almost unsweetened. Therefore, chocolate and icing are essential. You can change the amount of sugar, proportionally increasing the number of other components.