History
Traditional Toruń gingerbread
A Lebkuchen house
Gingerbread was brought to Europe in 992 by the Armenian monk Gregory of Nicopolis (Gregory Makar) (Grégoire de Nicopolis). He left Nicopolis Pompeii, to live in Bondaroy (France), near the town of Pithiviers. He stayed there 7 years, and taught the Gingerbread cooking to French priests and Christians. He died in 999.[1][2][3]
During the 13th century, it was brought to Sweden by German immigrants. Early references from the Vadstena Abbey show how the Swedish nuns were baking gingerbread to ease indigestion in 1444.[4] It was the custom to bake white biscuits and paint them as window decorations.
- ^La Confrérie du Pain d’Epices
- ^Le Pithiviers
- ^Monastère orthodoxe des Saints Grégoire Armeanul et Martin le Seul
Перевод hrusan.
Имбирное печенье было завезено в Европу в 992 году армянским монахом Грегори Никополис (Грегори Макар). Он покинул монастырь Никополис в городе Помпеи (Италия), чтобы поселиться в Бондарой (Франция), рядом с городом Писивирс. Он обучал священников и прихожан выпекать имбирное печенье в течение 7-ми лет вплоть до своей смерти. Скончался он в 999 году.
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