When the house there is a small gingerbread house - we can safely say: Preparation for New Year and Christmas holidays began. After all, this bakery only one of its kind able to give a festive mood the whole family!
How did gingerbread houses
The story of this baking is very unusual. And you know why? Because most of us think that gingerbread houses invented for the first time back in the XIX century, when it was published by the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel." And, though it has since taken root in many families, this is a good tradition - oven gingerbread houses for Christmas. But in fact - it was the second birth of gingerbread houses.
They first appeared in ancient Rome, where the inhabitants of houses of baked dough and decorated the home altar. And then we ate the whole family. But all this is far from a story, of course, you need to tell the kids together with the tale "Genezel and Gretel" during the joint preparation of a gingerbread house.
We offer one of the easiest options you will be able to bake and assemble together with a toddler.
Design house: Risuem on paper and cut out patterns of parts Future Gingerbread House.
Cooking dough
Ingredients: flour - 1 glass (to obtain desired dough consistency), soda - 1/2 hours. spoons, sugar - 200 grams, honey - 250 g butter (melted and cooled down) - 200 g Eggs - 3 units, Cinnamon (ground) -. 1/4 hours. l, ginger (ground) -. 1/4 hours. l, carnation (milled) -. 1/4 hours.. L, cardamom - 1/4 hours. l.
Ingredients for the sugar-protein glaze: powdered sugar - 180 grams, egg white - 1 units, lemon juice -. 1 hours. l.
Cooking method: spices mixed in a mortar and triturated in a fine powder. All the ingredients for the dough (including, and spices) were combined in a separate bowl. Mix with a spoon. Add the flour mixed with baking soda to the rest of the ingredients and knead the dough thoroughly. It should have elastic. Good promyatoe batter rolled into a ball, wrapped in plastic wrap and put in the refrigerator 3 hours.
Before bunching parts house, take out the dough from the refrigerator and left at room temperature for at least 1 hour to it warmed. Then knead the dough again and roll out on the sheets before baking parchment layer thickness of 0.5 cm. Shift the rolled dough on a baking sheet. Spread paper patterns (patterns) on the dough pieces. Not very sharp knife (not to cut through the paper) is cut out from a part of the test of the future house and bake in a preheated 170-180 degree oven until light golden brown. After baking, the details of the house and stick give "lie down" for several hours, covered with a thin towel.
Prepare glaze: protein with lemon juice whisk until soft foam, gradually adding powdered sugar or brandy and rum. When the mass becomes thick, gradually add more powdered sugar, carefully rubbing with a spoon until smooth. After cooking, we cover tightly with cling film glaze and let it stand for 30 minutes.
Lurid details of the house: for this icing are placed in special piping bag with suitable nozzles.
Putting house: When painting quite dried up, pick a house. First, connect the wall, gently brushing the joints of sugar-protein coating. When gluing the walls are dry, glue the roof. All stages preferably carried out gradually to "sweet cement" had a good grab.
When all parts are assembled to put the finishing touches: do drawing mass icicles, snow, almond nuts kernels depict the stones on the tube. Snow can be either of powdered sugar, and from coconut.
But even more spectacular version of the Christmas house, but not from the gingerbread.
