Gingerbread
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- ALLSPICE
- BROWN SUGAR
- BUTTER
- CINNAMON
- CLOVES
- GINGERBREAD
- GINGERSNAP
- HONEY
- LEBKUCHEN
- MOLASSES
- NUTMEG
- PARKIN
- ROLLING PIN
- SPECULAAS
- STEM GINGER
- TREACLE
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Gingerbread takes its dark color and bittersweet edge from molasses or treacle, warmed with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and allspice. Bakers shaped the same spiced dough into German lebkuchen, Dutch speculaas and Yorkshire parkin long before the crisp gingersnap reached American kitchens. Brown sugar, butter and honey soften the bite; a rolling pin and stem ginger finish the job.
Gingerbread Word Search Answer Key
Checking a finished sheet, or stuck on the last word? The Gingerbread Word Search Answer Key marks all 16 hidden words in the grid and lists the row, column and direction each one starts from. It prints on its own sheet, so you can hand out the puzzle and keep the answers.