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 The Gingerbread Capital of the World

The Gingerbread Capital of the World

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     challenging words:    recipe, cinnamon, spicy, gingerbread, treat, almost, capital, strict, oven, museum, secret, city, everyone, world, smoke, hard

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The Gingerbread Capital of the World
By Colleen Messina 		  
1     Spicy gingerbread is a Christmas treat. Almost everyone likes it. One city is famous for gingerbread. It is the "gingerbread capital of the world." This city is in Germany. It is called Nuremberg. Long ago, bakers there made the gingerbread by hand. They worked hard. They had strict rules. Each baker had to have his own oven. This was called having their "own smoke." The bakers had secret recipes. Today, one of these old recipes is in a museum. .....
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