Gingerbreads

In Belgium and the Netherlands, gingerbread is known as speculaas and speculoos, but also honingkoek and peperkoek. In Dinant in Belgian Wallonia, they have a rock-hard decorative version with beautiful imprinted rural scenes. Germany has its variants, for example lebkuchen, Switzerland has tirggel, among others, and the Scandinavian countries have their types of pepparkakor, brunekager and piparkakut. In Latvia it is called piparkukas, and piparkoogid in Estonia. You’ll find mézeskálacs in Hungary, pernicky in the Czech Republic and pierniczki in Poland. Russia has prianiki and France has its pain d’épice. If there’s one bake that connects us all in the world, it’s gingerbread.