Gingerbread Biscuits

Gingerbread, which has a long history in much of Europe, first appeared in English cookery books in the late fourteenth century. It was often molded into human shapes—frequently lovers, sometimes even kings and queens—using a wooden mold. According to The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, Elizabeth I commanded her kitchen to shape gingerbread to resemble her courtiers, suitors, and others, which she would then have served to them. By the early nineteenth century, a similar custom