With its unmistakable scent, it is impossible to imagine our Christmas season without gingerbread. If you have time, you should make one of the many different gingerbread pastries yourself. Ready-made spice mixtures make it easier for the amateur baker to achieve the typical gingerbread taste. What’s in gingerbread and how healthy the pastry is, you … Gingerbread: Spicy Pastry
Products Cinnamon is commercially available, among other things, as a spice, as a medicinal drug, tea and in the form of capsules as a dietary supplement. It is found in remedies for digestion such as Carmol, Klosterfrau Melissengeist and in Zeller Balsam. Cinnamon is also a component of traditional pharmaceutical preparations such as aromatic tincture … Cinnamon
Products Ginger is contained in various medicinal products. These include capsules, which are approved as medicinal products (Zintona). It is also available as a tea, as an open product, in the form of ginger candies and as candied ginger. Also available is the essential oil. Fresh ginger can be purchased in grocery stores. Stem plant … Ginger
Products Potassium carbonate is available as an open product in pharmacies and drugstores. It is also found in some homeopathic medicines. Structure and properties Potassium carbonate (K2CO3, Mr = 138.2 g/mol) exists as a white, granular, odorless, and hygroscopic powder that is readily soluble in water. Potassium carbonate is the dipotassium salt of carbonic acid … Potassium Carbonate
Products Staghorn salt is available, for example, in pharmacies and drugstores as open goods. Specialty retailers can order it from specialized suppliers. Structure and properties In a broader sense, staghorn salt is the ammonium salts of carbonic acid, ammonium hydrogen carbonate, ammonium carbonate or ammonium carbamate (SLMB). In practice, the pure ammonium hydrogen carbonate is … Staghorn Salt
Products Arabic gum (gum arabic) is available in pharmacies and drugstores as an open product. It is also found in foods, medicines and in cosmetics. Gum arabic was used by the ancient Egyptians over 4000 years ago. Structure and properties Arabic gum is an air-hardened, gummy exudate that comes out naturally or after cutting the … Arabic Gum
Products Glucose syrup is used as an excipient in pharmaceuticals. It is also used in many food products, such as gingerbread, marzipan, glacé and gummy sweets like gummy bears. Structure and properties Glucose syrup is an aqueous solution of a mixture of glucose, oligo- and polysaccharides obtained from starch by acid or enzymatic hydrolysis (with … Glucose Syrup
Products Gingerbread spice is available in pharmacies and drugstores, among other places. The spice can also be freshly mixed and ground from the ingredients yourself, but this is laborious. Composition Gingerbread spice consists, for example, of cinnamon, cloves, anise, star anise and coriander powder. It may also contain other or other spices, such as allspice, … Gingerbread Spice
The Christmas market season with all its temptations: Fragrant roasted almonds, fresh lard pastries and hot steaming mulled wine. Christmas market visits with friends and colleagues lift spirits in the dark season and increase anticipation for the holiday. But most specialties at the Christmas market contain a lot of sugar and fat and unfortunately rule … Calories At the Christmas Market
Candied lemon peel and candied orange peel taste sweet and aromatic and can be found in every Christmas stollen and many types of gingerbread; however, they are also an ingredient in many breakfast cereals. The peel parts of these citrus fruits can be kept for a long time in a dry place in the kitchen … Candied Lemon Peel and Candied Orange Peel