Spicy Dark Ginger Bread

Although the small English town of Market Drayton claims the title of Home of Gingerbread, the spice-packed cake more likely entered Europe in the late tenth century, thanks to an Armenian monk who settled in north-central France, where he taught the locals how to make it. By the time gingerbread found its way to Market Drayton, where it was first reportedly baked in the early 1790s, treacle and flour had replaced the honey and bread crumbs of the medieval formula and eggs and butter had fo