Orange Gingerbread with Orange Whipped Cream

One of the great pleasures of baking gingerbread is the warm, intoxicating fragrance that pervades your kitchen while baking. Gingerbread is often cited as the oldest baked sweet in the world, because it was baked in ancient Greece, many centuries before Christ. Recipes for it were preserved in monasteries during the Dark Ages, although the loaves were more dense than today’s gingerbread. Known to early American bakers as “gyngerbredde,” recipes for gingerbread arrived with the Pilgrims. Be