National Gingersnap Day!

And why not? Happy Gingersnap day! I've always liked ginger snaps. Keep them in the car when ever we take a trip. They work wonders for me when I get car sick, which is often.

I like them but they are hard on fragile teeth.

In England, these are known as Ginger Nuts, Ginger Biscuits or, occasionally, Cornish Fairings. Ginger Fairings have been sold at fairs all over the country since at least the 12th Century, so I think that this kind of biscuit is probably of English origin, though similar things are made in many other countries as well. We call them 'biscuits', by the way, because they were traditionally baked twice - once at the top of the oven and then again at the cooler bottom of the oven. I have to say that, even though we still call them biscuits, most of what you call 'cookies' are only baked once. But then, so are what you call 'biscuits' over there (which we'd call scones and eat with jam and cream rather than 'gravy'!) Gingerbread is much softer than these hard Gingersnaps. In England it's more like a fairly dense, dark cake made with flour, dark treacle, muscovado sugar and ginger (of course). In Germany, it's much more like a soft, flat cookie and is usually made in various shapes, such as men, women, birds and so on.

A day for everything under the sun.I dolike ginger snaps

I love them with coffee. Dip them just for a second.