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    your favorite Flemish gingerbread

    14 August 2020 by toondebacker 2 Comments

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    your favourite Flemish gingerbread
    your favorite Flemish gingerbread

    In the middle of the Corona crisis I started missing "peperkoek", my and soon your favorite Flemish gingerbread. These are the little things from home that you miss abroad. No deal I thought, for sure I will find some in the supermarket. "Fehlanzeige", nil. I think I turned three supermarkets upside down but did not find anything close to it.

    Only during the Christmas period you will find a lot of "Lebkuchen" in Germany. So I started realizing that it must indeed be a regional product from Flanders and the Netherlands. I was in high need of the taste, so I decided to bake it myself.

    your favourite Flemish gingerbread

    your favorite Flemish gingerbread

    Your favorite Flemish gingerbread is delicious with your breakfast or as a snack. This is the basic recipe on which you can vary with spices.
    5 from 5 votes
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    Prep Time 15 mins
    Cook Time 45 mins
    Total Time 1 hr
    Course Breakfast, Snack
    Cuisine Belgian, Dutch, Flemish
    Servings 1 cake
    Calories 2219 kcal

    Ingredients
     
     

    • 250 gram flour
    • 8 gram baking powder
    • 250 gram brown sugar
    • 2 eggs
    • 100 ml water
    • 2 tablespoons gingerbread spices
    • 2 tablespoons honey
    • sugar pearls optional

    Instructions
     

    • Preheat the oven at 180°C.
    • Grease the mold with some butter.
    • Mix all the ingredients until you have a nice dough.
    • Pour the dough in the greased mold, and put it in the preheated oven. If you wish you can top it with some sugar pearls.
    • Bake the cake during 45 minutes.
    • Remove the now fragrant gingerbread from the oven and let it cool down for a few minutes. Then remove it from the mold and let it cool down further.
    • Control yourself and wait to taste it until it has cooled down completely

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1cakeCalories: 2219kcalCarbohydrates: 494gProtein: 39gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 3gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 327mgSodium: 1070mgPotassium: 941mgFiber: 11gSugar: 280gVitamin A: 552IUVitamin C: 7mgCalcium: 972mgIron: 22mg
    Keyword breakfast cake, gingerbread, ontbijtkoek, peperkoek, pepper cake
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    About your favorite Flemish gingerbread

    This is a typical case where the name is not covering the load. Neither in English, nor in Dutch. You may see in the ingredient list that neither ginger, nor pepper are on the ingredient list. This goes back to the middle ages where all kinds of new spices were grouped under one name: pepper. You see this also in a lot of other languages: pepperkaker (Norwegian), pepparkakor (Swedish), brunkager (Danish), piparkökur (Icelandic), piparkakut (Finnish) and piparkūkas (Latvian) or piparkoogid (Estonian).

    In England the spiced cake became known as gingerbread in the 17th - 18th century. The town Market Drayton in Shropshire became known as the home of gingerbread. This is more or less half way between Birmingham and Manchester.

    The typical ingredients for gingerbread spices are cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon coriander seeds, anise, pepper and maybe also ginger.

    More Belgian and Flemish surprises

    I often say that in Belgium we are good in anything that is unhealthy. Apart from your favorite Flemish gingerbread we also have fries, chocolates and beer to name some. Surprising.recipes meanwhile has a lot of delicious Belgian inspired dishes you might enjoy:

    • Belgian beer steamed mussels
    • Bacon wrapped Brussels sprouts
    • Belgian endives and arugula salad with blood sausage
    • oven dish with chicory and leek
    • Belgian blue cheese bacon waffles

    If you speak Dutch, you can find the Dutch version of this recipe on gerechtenweb.blog.

    your favourite Flemish gingerbread
    your favourite Flemish gingerbread
    your favourite Flemish gingerbread
    your favourite Flemish gingerbread
    your favourite Flemish gingerbread
    your favourite Flemish gingerbread
    your favourite Flemish gingerbread

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    1. Wish I Could Make

      March 14, 2022 at 9:05 pm

      Please include the ingredients and measurements for the regional gingerbread spices blend.

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      • toondebacker

        March 15, 2022 at 8:37 am

        5 stars
        Thank you for the feedback. Indeed gingerbread spices mostly have to be bought in a specialized spice store. They are made of ginger, cinnamon, allpice, cloves and nutmeg. Also coriander seeds and cardamom are often used. I will update the article accordingly. Meanwhile ere is a good mixture to make them yourself: gingerbread spice mixture.

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