Heart to Hearth Cookery

In addition to long pepper, the main flavor for the receipt (recipe)  To make gingerbrede is ginger.  Ginger when first introduced into England from the Orient was imported for its medicinal properties which evolved into its use as a spice in foods.  As pictured, the dried rhizome would be grated into a powder.  In the 14th century, and this receipt is circa 1390, ginger was extremely expensive.

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