You know Summer has drawn to a close when Popcorn Kitchen
starts rummaging around in the pantry for its next big flavour push. With Lemon Drizzle Cake, Blueberry Muffins,
Bakewell Tart and Chocolate Brownies all providing moreish inspiration over the
years, many might suggest that some uncompromising ‘biscuity joy’ was long
overdue.
Now gingerbread’s origins are the perfect mix of world cuisine
culture meets homegrown nostalgia. The
rising influence of a buoyant spice trade in medieval Britain was responsible
for spices like ginger, cinnamon and cloves becoming not simply the currency of
the era, but the all-important status symbols of well-heeled nobles, merchants
and royalty.
Pressed gingerbread men was actually a trend created back in
the court of Queen Elizabeth 1, who was quite insistent that fresh ‘man
cookies’ were baked in the likeness of visiting dignitaries.
Today, you could choose to busy yourself in the kitchens
creating edible mini manikins of friends and family OR instead settle for filling
a bowl or two with Popcorn Kitchen’s latest flavour, a magnificently munchy
tribute to the festive season’s lightly spiced, biscuit people.
According to Popcorn
Kitchen spokesperson, ‘Having historically tapped into the public’s
favourite great cake and ‘pud’ memories, we felt now was the moment was ripe to
delve deep within the biscuit barrel.’
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