Great Gingerbread

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From the classics to delicious waffles, bisc otti, cookies and cakes, Perry offers a new take on an age-o ld favourite. These recipes include Chocolate-Dipped Gingerb read Biscotti and Gingerbread Scones with Orange Honey Butte r. '

Sara Perry is the author of The Complete Tea Book, Summertime Treats, Christmastime Treats, and Great Gingerbread, all from Chronicle Books. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Frankie Frankeny is a San Francisco-based photographer whose work has illustrated many books, including Wookiee Cookies (0-8118-2184-6) and The Christmas Cookie Book (0-8118-3095-0).

From: House & Garden The beauty of gingerbread and of this book is the way they mix the sweet with a touch of spice--the recipe for Tigertail Val's Sweet Gingerbread, for instance, includes coffee and cognac. Add a little lore, like ginger's utility as a thirteenth-century "nobleman's antacid," and you have a delectable dish indeed. The author's answer to overdecorated (you might say, tasteless) gingerbread houses is her recollection of one from her childhood that looked like Bing Crosby's mansion in Beverly Hills-- including its pool of aqua sheet-gelatin--and her homespun Lickety Split Log Cabin.