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Welcome to the I Can't Sleep podcast where I help you drift off one fact at a time.

I'm your host, Benjamin Boster, and today's episode is about gingerbread.

This was a request from my son, Caden.

Gingerbread refers to a broad category of baked goods, typically flavored with ginger,

cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon, and sweetened with honey, sugar, or molasses.

Gingerbread foods vary, ranging from a moist loaf cake to forms nearly as crisp as a ginger snap.

Originally, the term gingerbread from Latin zingibur via old French, gingibra, referred to preserved ginger.

It then referred to a confection made with honey and spices.

Ginger bread is often used to translate the French term, pan de piece, literally spice bread,

or the German and Polish terms, Pfefferkuchen and Pyernich, respectively.

Literally pepper cake because it used to contain pepper,

or lebchuchen, of unclear etymology,

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