Gingerbread Biscuits

Ginger was one of the most common spices available in Britain, so it was used a lot in many regional specialities such as Parkin, which is actually a form of gingerbread. Gingerbread was first made as a biscuit, baked slowly until crisp, and cut into various shapes. The cake type of gingerbread developed only in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when leavens (raising agents), such as bicarbonate of soda, were introduced.

These biscuit