Gingerbread 101: History, Ginger, and Literature

Gingerbread in literature

• By 1598, gingerbread has become popular enough to make its appearance in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost: "And I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst have it to buy ginger-bread".
• In 1812, the Brothers Grimm published a German fairy tale collection, which includes "Hansel and Gretel". Gingerbread house is where the antagonist lives.
• By 1875, gingerbread man has also become popular enough to appear in a folk tale: a woman bakes a gingerbread man, who jumps off from her oven and escapes.

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