Ndipo ndinali ndi ndalama imodzi padziko lonse lapansi, muyenera kukhala nayo kugula mkate wa ginger.
-William Shakespeare, "Ntchito ya Chikondi Yatayika"
Mbiri ya Gingerbread - Yakafupi Kwambiri
Mitundu imakhalapo pachiyambi cha gingerbread. Pachifukwa ichi, ndizomveka kunena kuti mtundu wa gingerbread ungayambe kutsatiridwa kwa Agiriki ndi Aigupto akale omwe adagwiritsa ntchito mwambo wawo. Mbalame yamphongo inayamba kuonekera ku Ulaya pamene asilikali achikatolika a m'zaka za zana la 11 anabweretsa zonunkhira kuchokera ku Middle East kwa ophika olemera kuti ayesere.
Monga ginger ndi zonunkhira zina zinkakhala zotsika mtengo kwa anthu ambiri, kugwidwa kwa ginger kunagwira. Chipatso choyambirira cha ku Ulaya chinali ndi amondi a pansi, stake, breadwater, shuga ndi, mwachibadwa, ginger.
Chotsatiracho chinapangidwira mu nkhungu zamatabwa. Zojambulazo zojambulazo zinagwiritsidwa ntchito ngati bolodi lamasewero omwe ankanena za tsikulo, okhala ndi mafanizidwe a mafumu atsopano, mafumu, ndi abambo, kapena zizindikiro zachipembedzo. Choko chotsirizira chingakhale chokongoletsedwa ndi pepala lopangidwa ndi golide (kwa iwo omwe angakhoze kulipira) kapena chojambula choyera choyera kuti atulutse momveka bwino.
M'zaka za zana la 16, a Chingerezi adalowetsa zidutswa za ufa ndi ufa, ndipo anawonjezera mazira ndi zotsekemera, zomwe zinapangitsa kuti zikhale zophweka. Mwamuna woyamba wa gingerbread akutchulidwa kwa Mfumukazi Elizabeti I, yemwe adagonjetsa masokosi pa olemekezeka omwe akubwera nawo powawonetsa iwo ndi mkate umodzi wofanana nawo. Chotupitsa chakumwa chachingwe chomwe chinamangidwa ndi riboni chinali chotchuka pa masewera ndipo, pamene anasinthanitsa, chinakhala chizindikiro cha chikondi.
Pazifukwa zothandiza kwambiri, firiji isanayambe kugwedezeka m'diso la munthu, kununkhira kwakumwa kwachitsulo kunaphatikizidwira ku maphikidwe kuti aziphimba kununkhira kwa nyama.
Ndiye Kodi Gingerbread Monga Lerolino Ndi Chiyani?
Gingerbread ndi zokoma zokhala ndi ginger ndipo nthawi zina sinamoni, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom ndi tsabola, ndi okometsedwa ndi kuphatikiza shuga wofiira, molasses, mazira a chimanga kapena mdima wakuda, kapena uchi.
Mbalame yamphongo ingapangidwe ngati zokopa , zonunkhira zopanda pake monga Polish, pierniczki , Czech pernik , Russian pryaniki , Croatian licitars , Scandinavian pepparkakor ndi Dutch speculaas zomwe zimadulidwa m'mitima kapena maonekedwe ena.
Mbalame yamphongo imatha kukhala mkate wamdima, wokometsera monga Polish piernik , kapena American version wotumikira, nthawizina, ndi mandimu glaze, kapena French yowala.
Gulu lachitatu la gingerbread limatengera lero ndikumangidwa kwapangidwa ndi nyumba mosiyana ndi mtanda wa makeke a gingerbread.
Makampani akuluakulu a ku Gingerbread
Mbalame yamagetsi imatengedwa ngati zojambulajambula ku Nuremberg, Ulm ndi Pulsnitz ku Germany, Torun ku Poland, Tula ku Russia, Pest ku Hungary, Pardubice ndi Prague ku Czech Republic, ndi ku Lyon ku France komwe boma limayambitsanso ziboliboli Middle Ages.
Zaka zambiri zamatabwa zakale zimagwiritsidwa ntchito mumasamu a museum a Torun ndi Ulm, ndipo zina zimagwiritsidwa ntchito kupanga zokometsera za Krisimasi zomwe zimafunikira kwambiri.
Nyumba za Gingerbread
Nyumba ya gingerbread inadziwika ku Germany pambuyo pa abale a Grimm omwe adalemba zolemba zawo zomwe zinaphatikizapo "Hansel ndi Gretel" m'zaka za m'ma 1900. Anthu oyambirira okhala ku Germany anabweretsa nyumbayi ya kubkuchenhaeusle - yoboola mkate - mwambo ku America.
Nyumba zam'mimba za Gingerbread sizinafananepo ku Britain monga momwe anachitira ku North America, kumene mungapeze zitsanzo zodabwitsa. Koma zimakhala m'madera ena a ku Ulaya.
Mu December 2001, ophika mkate ku Torun, ku Poland, adayesa kumenya Guinness Book of World Records ya nyumba yaikulu kwambiri ya gingerbread. Linapangidwa ku Szczecin, ku Poland, ndi mikate 4,000 yokhala ndi zoboola za njerwa zokhala ndi mamita 11 ndipamwamba. Zinatenga mlungu kuti adziwe ndikugwiritsa ntchito mazira 6,000, ufa wa tani, ndi mapaundi 550 afupikitsa. Tsoka, iwo anatayika kwa timu ya Amereka!