“Like fine wine, good gingerbread must be aged and like wine making, the process requires a lot of know-how,” he adds. Vegan, kosher, non-GMOThe bold, inviting aroma of gingerbread spice wafts through the sprawling factory on the edge of Torun. The secret recipe draws on the city’s gingerbread tradition harking back to the Middle Ages when spices from India and the Middle East first began to arrive in Torun, later a major crossroads for Hanseatic trading routes. Luxury itemPolish high school student Jagoda presses a ball of gingerbread dough into a hand-carved wooden cookie mould in the shape of a horseshoe inscribed “szczescie”, or Polish for “luck”. Unlike the thin, crisp gingerbread snaps popular in Sweden or Britain, Torun gingerbread is chewy and meaty.

Source: Egypt Independent December 24, 2018 08:55 UTC