Gingerbread houses were the result of the Grimm's fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel" where the two children who were abandoned in the forest found an edible house made of bread with sugar decorations
Well, isn't that a lovely question! A gingerbread house is actually a bit of both. The different candies and decorations on the outside make it heterogeneous, while the gingerbread itself is homogeneous because it's all made from the same mixture. Just like in painting, it's the variety that makes it beautiful!
During the 1500s, gingerbread was sold as medicinal eats. Many were decorated to resemble window decorations. As time went on, the cookies were often decorated and hung in windows as Christmas decorations. The story of Hansel and Gretel added to the d?cor idea and romanticism with the description of the witch's house being made of gingerbread with lots of candy and icing decorations. Heavy immigration during the 1800s along with the advent of the scroll saw made the gingerbread decorations able to be mass produced and came with a mix of all the styling brought from the home countries of the different immigrants. The 1800s is often called the 'Victorian Era,' and is known for excess and often over the top designs. Gingerbread designing fit right into the era's eccentricness.
At the White House during Christmas a big Christmas tree is set up. Moreover, other decorations are scatter throughout the house. A gingerbread house is constructed. Many celebrations are held.
That phrase is not talking about the gingerbread you eat! Victorian Era houses had a lot of decorative woodwork that was called "gingerbread" because it looked a bit like the decorative gingerbread houses people make. If your gingerbread on your house had gold leaf rubbed on, it was gilded, or gilt. "The gilt has worn off the gingerbread" thus means that time has passed and the decorations aren't as pretty - in other words, the newness has worn off.
the gingerbread house came from Germany
A Christmas house is made of "Gingerbread".
The Gingerbread House - 2009 was released on: USA: 19 December 2009
A gingerbread man sits inside a gingerbread house, is the house made of flesh or is the gingerbread man made of house?
He would live in a gingerbread house.
They eat the gingerbread house after Christmas!
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