Heart to Hearth Cookery

 Pictured is three stale Manchets (white bread made with the whitest of wheat flour) grated and an ounce of anniseedes being beaten and searced.  This is the beginning of a 1609 receipt (recipe) for To make Ginger Bread.  One of the main ingredients in the earliest of gingerbread receipts was actually bread.

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