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International Day of Neutrality Poinsettia Day Gingerbread House Day Gingerbread House Day on December 12th recognizes a family tradition for many around the country. A favourite food of an Armenian […]

International Day of Neutrality

Poinsettia Day

Gingerbread House Day

Gingerbread House Day on December 12th recognizes a family tradition for many around the country.

A favourite food of an Armenian monk, Gregory of Nicopolis, brought gingerbread to Europe around 992 AD and taught French Christians to bake it. Since gingerbread was often used in religious ceremonies, monks baked to be sturdy to molded into images of saints.

We can thank the Brothers’ Grimm for a gingerbread house, though. Through their tale of Hansel and Gretel, they introduce an evil witch who lives in a house made of gingerbread. It didn’t take long for the German gingerbread guilds to pick up the idea. Soon, they put gingerbread houses to a more festive use making snowy cottages made from the spicy-sweet treat.

Today, we can spend the day baking, cutting, and building to our heart’s delight. Kits take some steps out of the process so we can get right down to constructing our winter wonderlands.

 

 

Anniversary of:
• Washington DC being established as the capital of the USA (1800)
• the birthdays of painter Edvard Munch (1863) and crooner Frank Sinatra (1915)

 

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