Making Great Gingerbread Houses or Amish Cook at Home

Making Great Gingerbread Houses: Delicious Designs from Cabins to Castles, from Lighthouses to Tree Houses

Author: Aaron Morgan

What's One Part Baking, One Part Building, and All Parts Holiday Fun? Making gingerbread houses, of course! This book is all you need -- whether you're a beginner or an expert. Professional gingerbread maker Aaron Morgan walks you step-by-step through the process of building a basic gingerbread house, using how-to photos and easy-to-follow instructions. Then you'll feast your eyes on more than 40 award-winning creations, with recipes, techniques, and templates to get you ready for gingerbread building and decorating.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction: Making Art out of Dessert	8
	Gingerbread Baking and Building Basics
	The Pieces
	Creating Your Pattern Pieces	11
	Rolling out the Dough	12
	Cutting out Your House	13
	Transferring and Baking Your House Pieces	14
	The Assembly	15
	The Trimmings	20
	The Recipes
	Gingerbread Dough	34
	Royal lcing	34
	Marzipan	34
	Pastillage	35
	Fondant	35
	Houses, Cabins & Inns
	Classic Gingerbread House	36
	Red Brick Estate	38
	Haunted Halloween House	40
	Over the River and Through the Woods	41
	Candy Land Christmas	42
	Avonlea Inn	44
	Sweetheart Cottage	50
	Traditional Log Home	52
	Wee Cottage	53
	Candy-coated Cottage	54
	Stonecreek Inn	56
	Gingerbread Times Two	58
	Mountain Hideaway	59
	Candlelit Cottage	60
	Snow-covered Cottage	62
	Pretzel Cabin	63
	Castles, Chapels, Villages & More
	Coventry Alley	64
	Country Chapel	68
	Sugar Cube Castle	69
	Sugar Cube Lighthouse	69
	Christmas by the Sea	70
	Christmas at the Corner of Town	73
	Scottish Castle	74
	Sweet Shop & Florist	76
	Feliz Navidades	78
	Tree House with a Twist	79
	Hendersonville Depot	80
	Little Red Schoolhouse	82
	Zookeeper's Paradise	84
	Cathedral at Christmas	87
	Totem Pole Lodge	88
	Covered Bridge Mill	90
	Firehouse Christmas	92
	Damsel in Distress	94
	Santa's Palace	97
	Christmas Wedding Chapel	98
	Down by the Old Mill Stream	100
	Rolling Down the River	102
	Bird's Eye View Estates	104
	Holiday Village	106
	Merry-Go-Round	108
	Lighthouse Landing	109
	Templates	112
	Contributing Designers	124
	Index	127

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Amish Cook at Home: Simple Pleasures of Food, Family, and Faith

Author: Lovina Eicher

"This cookbook couldn't bend to the fast pace of our e-mail driven world. Like a slow Sunday pot roast, it had to simmer . . . culminating many months of conversation, writing, and Amish wisdom." --Kevin Williams Part almanac, part cultural overview, part culinary calendar, The Amish Cook at Home is the harbinger of a new era in home cooking.

As the follow-up to Elizabeth Coblentz's The Amish Cook, The Amish Cook at Home by her daughter, Lovina Eicher and her editor and friend Kevin Williams introduces a new generation to Amish cooking and culture.

Structured around the four seasons, which heavily influence Amish life and cooking, The Amish Cook at Home offers recipes teaming with seasonal vegetables, fruits, and meat. Culinary traditions like Dandelion Jelly, Asparagus-Potato Soup, Chicken and Dumplings, and Concord Grape Streusel Pie are featured alongside Amish history, culture, and lore. Stories of Old Order days and glimpses into events like weddings, funerals, tax time, and the holidays are included, as well as anecdotes from Lovina's own family life shared with her husband Joe and their eight children.

The Amish Cook at Home offers a welcome return to nature and community that is centered on the family table.