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Gingerbread houses are made with thin gingerbread walls that are held together by royal icing. The houses are then decorated with candies and icing, and tend to resemble the witch's house found in the woods by Hansel and Gretel in Grimm's Fairy Tales.
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Fast Facts
- It is considered tradition to wait until New Year's Day to eat a gingerbread house
- Gingerbread houses are a White House tradition
- Gingerbread house kits can be found in craft supply stores
- Gingerbread haunted houses are a fun Halloween project
- Other molded gingerbread favorites: the Gingerbread Man and gingerbread cookies
- Medieval explorers introduced ginger into cooking after exploring MalaysiaJournal of Antiques: A Gingerbread Tradition
- Houses often decorated bakery shop windows during the Christmas holiday in Colonial AmericaJournal of Antiques: A Gingerbread Tradition
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World's Largest Gingerbread House
In November 2006, Roger Pelcher built the world's largest gingerbread house inside the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. The gingerbread house project took nine days for Pelcher and his team to complete. The final result stood 67 feet tall and took up 1,496 square feet.delish.com: Largest Gingerbread House -
How to Preserve a Gingerbread House
Spray your completed house with a water-soluble polyurethane spray to preserve it.Gingerbread Lane: PreservationYou can wrap your finished house in layers of plastic after the holidays and store it in a dry basement. Check on your house occasionally to make sure mice haven't chewed through the plastic and eaten away at your masterpiece.Gingerbread Lane: Preservation
Construct parts of your frame from cardboard to create a sturdier base and foundation.Gingerbread Lane: Preservation
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My ex said she needed $45K to redo the ext. on the house. I asked "Does it have to be real gingerbread?" ~ Emo (cont.....)
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Waiting for Bryan to get off work so we can make tacos, and hopefully a gingerbread house
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Whoever says making a gingerbread house is fun is lying 2 your face. It is a mess and the icing never sticks. It is an effing mess.
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