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[mindmetoo]

If you're looking for ginger to make some ginger bread for Christmas, heads up about what to look for. Seng gang (think seng in the korean term for teacher and gang for river!) it's called. Add "ga roo" to mean powder.

[Samantha]

ok sounds interesting but how do you make gingerbread? Can you find the cookie cutters here for the men? Have a good recipe?

[kermo]

Gingerbread doesn't really taste right without molasses, which is darned hard to come by.

I saw a packet of some powdery stuff called "new sugar." Any ideas about what that might be?

[Samantha]

new sugar is a "fake" sugar if it's the same as the stuff in the states...it's made from either a suar by-product like splenda and nutrasweet, or it's made from this other plant that's supposed to be sweeter than sugar cane. It's supposed to be a better alternative to sugar from sugar cane, and sugar beets.

[tzechuk]

I always thought new sugar was icing sugar? I used it for that purpose anyway and it's worked.. although now you can get powder sugar that is supposed to be icing sugar...

[mindmetoo]

[Chicoloco]

When I came here for the first time you had to be like Harry Lime in The Third Man if you wanted to do much cooking/baking......one ingredient from this store, another from that one, a little extra from the base, meet a man down a dark alley, just to get some cilantro.....!

Now it is definitely getting easier. You only have to walk a total of 24km as opposed to the previous 240km in order to make your favorite dishes!

[Ya-ta Boy]

I made my first batch of gingerbread this past weekend.

Molasses: Just take the amount of corn syrup called for in the recipe and start stirring in the darkest brown sugar until you get the consistency you want. It isn't a perfect substitute, but what is?

[mindmetoo]

[Gatsby]

Note to the rest of the readers out there:

Aside from the fact that ginger is one of the few readily available spices (along with cinnamon), and is labeled "ginger," no one else in this thread has the faintest idea what they are talking about.

But that's typical of Dave's these days.

[kimbabworld]

You can get gingerbread man cookie cutters at Haddon Market in Hannam. Just saw them yesterday.

[mindmetoo]

[sojourner1]

How you doing all this baking without an oven? I have not seen ovens, except for a few expensive new models in the big stores.

Apartments do not typically have an oven, but you could have one installed if willing to shell out for it. I just don't buy big things when I know I can't take it on a plane and it might not sell in a short time frame with being far outside of Seoul.

I sure miss my oven for baking things in... Maybe next year I can get one.

[Samantha]

Dude... it's called a toaster oven and small batches...or some people actually have a full on house/apartment with ovens. They are few and far between but it's been known to happen. At a friend's old apartment they had 3 bedrooms, bathroom with bathtub, and an oven. Not sure why they moved come to think of it

[xtchr]

Are gingerbread men a Christmas thing? (I never knew that). Is it a tradition in some countries? Why/when/who etc.

thanks for any info - genuine curiosity coupled with a need to pad out upcoming Christmas lessons.