We all love gingerbread very much, this is a dish that brings us back to childhood and simply has such a taste that always remains pleasant and loved, especially if these are gingerbread cookies with a filling. Many housewives pamper their children with gingerbread, but it's not easy, and every time they change the filling, with condensed milk, with jam, raisins, and so on. And the variety in the diet, and children are interested.

We will consider a recipe for making Pokrovsky gingerbread with condensed milk, which turns out to be not only tasty, aromatic, sweet, but also large, which is very good for a large family, because such yummy food is eaten very quickly. The recipe itself is quite simple, you just need to carefully study it, prepare all the products and get down to business. So, let's consider what we need to make Pokrovskiy gingerbread.

• Flour - 1.5 cups;
• Sugar - 1 glass;
• Honey - 3 tablespoons;
• Eggs - 2 pcs;
• Margarine - 125 grams;
• Condensed milk - to taste;
• Ground cinnamon - 1 tablespoon;
• Soda - 1 teaspoon.

For glaze

• Water - 2 tablespoons;
• Sugar - 4 tablespoons.

Everything the right ingredients prepared, now you can proceed directly to cooking. From the list of products you can see that our Pokrovsky gingerbread will turn out to be sweet.

Step by step recipe

1. As always, before starting cooking, take a convenient container in which all the ingredients will be kneaded. So, we take the eggs, send them to a bowl, and add soda there. Note that you do not need to extinguish soda, just pour it into a common container. Further, sugar with cinnamon and honey is also sent to the eggs. We mix all this well.
2. In the resulting mass, add margarine as follows, as indicated by the recipe. Before adding it to the rest of the ingredients, you need to soften it a little. After adding margarine, stir the whole mass.
3. Mixed ingredients, we send to water bath for about 10 minutes.
4. After that, we take up the flour. We add it to all the ingredients, we do it not immediately, but gradually kneading it, as the recipe suggests. After all the flour is in the dough, we begin to knead it well. We do this until our dough for Pokrovskiy gingerbread becomes elastic. Please note that the dough should not be too steep.
5. When our dough is well kneaded, we divide it into two parts. We roll out each part to make the so-called cakes. Don't make them too thick, about 5 mm each.
6. Since we make gingerbread cookies with a filling, we do not forget about it. To do this, thoroughly grease one cake with condensed milk and cover with a second cake. This is not a cake for us, so the edges need to be stitched, you can do this with a fork.
7. The next step is baking itself. To do this, put our sweet Pokrovsky gingerbread on a baking sheet, which we grease with margarine. We bake at a temperature of 200 degrees for about 20 minutes.
8. When just a little bit is left before the end of baking and our sweet gingerbread is almost ready, we need to make the icing. To do this, as the recipe indicates, we take water, mix it with sugar, put it on fire and let it boil.
9. At this time, we take out the finished delicacy from the oven, and while our gingerbread is still hot, grease with the resulting glaze.

Now we can safely lay out on a dish and invite everyone to the table, try this sweet gingerbread.

As you can see, the recipe is simple, and gingerbread cookies with filling are not as difficult as it might seem at first glance.

Such gingerbread cookies with a filling can be not only with the addition of condensed milk, but also it turns out very tasty if you add it with walnuts. Or, if you wish, replace the condensed milk with any jam or jam you like. And it is better to try all the options for fillings and choose the most favorite one, the one that your children will love or, in your opinion, will be best combined according to taste with the dough itself.

If you think that the filled gingerbread is too sweet, you can reduce the amount of sugar a little.

The main advantage of such baked goods is that they can be stored for a long time, unlike ordinary baked goods, which after a few days are already stale and unusable. Such gingerbread cookies are stored for more than a week and at the same time remain tasty.

Step-by-step recipe for Pokrovskiy gingerbread with photo.

• National cuisine: Russian kitchen
• Type of dish: desserts
• Complexity of the recipe: Uncomplicated recipe

• Prep time: 7 minutes
• Cooking time: 40 minutes
• Servings: 3 servings
• Calorie count: 137 kcal
• Occasion: For lunch

The long-loved delicacy of children and adults - Pokrovsky gingerbread - will adorn any table. The gingerbread prepared according to this recipe will not turn stale for several weeks.

Servings: 3-4

Ingredients for 3 servings

• Sugar - 1 Glass (in dough)
• Soft margarine - 125 Grams
• Soda - 1 Teaspoon (do not extinguish!)
• Ground cinnamon - 1 Tbsp. spoon
• Honey - 3 tbsp. spoons
• Sugar - 4 Tbsp. spoons (for glaze)
• Water - 2 Art. spoons (for glaze)
• Jam, jam, boiled condensed milk- 1 To taste (Filling to taste)
• Eggs - 2 Pieces
• Flour - 1-1.5 Cups

Step by step

1. Cooking Pokrovsky gingerbread:
2. Mix eggs, sugar, margarine, cinnamon, honey, soda in a container.
3. Put the resulting mass in a water bath for 10 minutes.
4. Pour in flour so that you get a not very tough elastic dough.
5. Roll out two cakes about 5 mm thick.
6. Spread the filling on one of the cakes, put the second cake on top. If you use condensed milk as a filling, you can add ground Walnut... Pinch the edges of the cake layers with a fork.
7. Put on a baking sheet, pre-greased with margarine. We put in the oven for 20 minutes at 200 degrees.
8. Cover the surface of the finished Pokrovsky gingerbread with glaze. To do this, mix the sugar and water, bring to a boil and grease the still hot gingerbread. The frosting is prepared just before the end of the baking of the gingerbread.
9. The pokrovsky gingerbread prepared in this way can be immediately served on the table for tea.
10. Bon Appetit!

Who has never tasted gingerbread today at least once in their life? This product is baked everywhere, but not everywhere equally well. In some countries there are cities that are famous for their gingerbread. In Germany, these are Frankfurt am Main and Nuremberg, in Poland - Torun, in the Czech Republic - Pardubice, in Latvia - Riga. And there are especially many such “gingerbread towns” in Russia. Suffice it to recall Tula, Pokrov, Vyazma, Novgorod, Tver, Gorodets, Dmitrov. And this is not yet full list! This article is devoted to the history and regional characteristics of the Pokrovskiy gingerbread. How does it differ from, for example, Tula? And what must be visited if fate throws you into the Pokrov? Is it possible to make gingerbread yourself? The recipe for this delicious dessert read below.

Pokrovsky gingerbread: history

The honey dough was already known to the ancient Egyptians. But gingerbread is something special. The very name of the culinary product in Russian comes from the word "spices". Thus, a lot of "dry spirits" (as they said in Russia) were put into the honey gingerbread: cinnamon, ginger, cloves. All of these ingredients were imported from India or Arabia and were very expensive. Therefore, gingerbread has always been a festive dish.

The culinary product in its modern form came to us from Germany. And there they learned to make "lebkuchen" from Belgian craftsmen from the city of Dinan. But long before the appearance of Western European gingerbread in Russia, from the ninth century, “honey bread” was baked. After all, sugar at that time was mined from Egyptian cane. In the composition of the Old Russian gingerbread, honey occupied more than half of the ingredients. The other ingredients were rye flour and berry juice. In Siberia, pink gingerbread cookies with raspberries and cranberries are still baked.

But the history of the Pokrovsky gingerbread began when they began to bring "dry perfume" to Russia. Experimenters from the kitchen put everything into the dough: cloves, vanilla, cinnamon, and ginger, as well as black allspice, saffron, nutmeg, star anise, anise, Italian dill, cardamom, citrus zest. There are three types of gingerbread cookies: molded, cut and printed.

Regional features of the Pokrov product

This city in the Vladimir region has long been known for its culinary specialists. Gingerbread has been made here since the eighteenth century, since, thanks to Peter the Great, Russian people got to know "lebkuchen". In terms of shape, the products from the Pokrova belong to printed ones. This means that a wooden board is used for their manufacture, on which the artist carved a drawing. The dough poured onto such an artistic baking sheet would print all the lines. Later, craftsmen decorated the surface of the product with edible paints (icing or mastic).

Tula gingerbread also belongs to printed ones. What is the regional feature of the dessert from the Vladimir region? First, it's the filling. Condensed milk with walnuts is considered a specialty. But the composition of the dough distinguishes Pokrovsky gingerbread even more from other similar products. No eggs are put in it. But they use a lot of spices, which is why the baked goods have an amazing aroma and taste.

Where to buy an authentic Pokrovsky gingerbread

In this town, you don't need to think about what to bring your friends as a souvenir. Of course, it will be a beautiful, painted Pokrovsky gingerbread. The brand store in Pokrov will offer you a rich assortment of its products. There are as gift gingerbread cakes for all occasions, and small figures fairytale heroes who are so fond of eating small children. There are three brand shops in a small Pokrov. Two of them are located in the center of the town and at the exit to Moscow. But tourists recommend visiting the store that is located across the river, when leaving for Vladimir. More accurate address: Nagorny village, Novaya street, 1, Pokrovsky gingerbread confectionery.

Excursion

Why do you need to go out of town to shop at company store number 1? Yes, the range of products in it differs little from that which you will find in Pokrov. But before you get to this store, you will have a fascinating tour of the workshops of the confectionery factory. After all, this is not a simple plant. Even the building in which it is located is stylized as a gingerbread house.

But the most interesting thing is inside. An interactive museum of Pokrovskiy gingerbread was created right at the factory. Groups of tourists traveling along the Golden Ring often come here. Hanging tunnels have been laid in all workshops, from which visitors can clearly see all the details of production.

First, the excursionists are shown rare boards on which in the old days printed Pokrovskaya gingerbread was molded. The interior, the costumes of the masters - all this immerses visitors in the atmosphere of the nineteenth century. This is followed by a visit to the cold and hot workshops.

After the sightseers have seen the process of kneading the dough and baking it, they go to the art workshop, where the masters give the gingerbread an elegant look. This excursion lasts forty minutes and costs three hundred rubles per person. But the ticket price also includes a tasting of products with tea from a samovar.

How can you get involved in the creation of dessert

Why is the museum called interactive? Because besides the main tour of confectionery Pokrovsky gingerbread, you can order various master classes. The duration of the lesson is half an hour, the cost of participation is three hundred rubles. Anyone who has reached the age of seven or more is admitted to the "school". Participants are dressed in disposable overalls.

What are the master classes? Variety. This is participation in the batch gingerbread dough, and decoration of the finished product. It is interesting that tourists are allowed to show their imagination and decorate the workpiece to their taste. And later - to buy "your" gingerbread in a company store.

There is also a candy-making workshop at the factory. Each student of the master class can make a cockerel on a stick by himself. A visit to the chocolate shop is very popular. Pokrovsky gingerbread in cocoa glaze has no analogues in Russia. Participants of the master class can get involved in the making of fillings and see how a picture created by the master appears under a thick layer of chocolate. And in the company store at the factory there is a discount for the participants of the excursions.

What you need to know

The dough for these products can be made both from wheat flour and from its mixture with rye. The latter will turn out to be more moist and will stay fresh longer. But if you are thinking of baking small gingerbread cookies, use only wheat flour... Honey should make up thirty percent of the dough. An artificial substitute will work too. But the gingerbread will not be as tasty and aromatic. If natural honey is sugared, it needs to be heated to make it runny.

One kilogram of flour should take ten grams of spices. The favorite spices of the Veil are nutmeg, cinnamon, coriander, ginger, zest, cardamom, anise, cloves, and black pepper. In order for the spices to reach their full potential, they need to be heated in honey and cooked with hot syrup. Let's not forget to add to ready dough a little rum or liqueur - this will make the product even more aromatic. Chocolate, cocoa, strong coffee or burnt sugar will give a beautiful dark shade to the gingerbread.

Pokrovsky gingerbread: recipe number 1

Sift two and a half glasses of flour into a deep bowl. It can be either wheat or mixed with rye. We also sift a glass of powdered sugar. Add two tablespoons of baking soda and the same amount of the selected spices. We mix. Grind half a glass of honey (or strawberry jam) with 250 milliliters of warm milk. Add one hundred grams of refined sunflower oil. Add the prepared flour little by little. We knead the dough. Preheat the oven to one hundred and sixty degrees. Grease the form with margarine, sprinkle with breadcrumbs. We spread the dough and bake for about fifty minutes.

Another recipe

This time, we will cook the dough for Pokrovskiy gingerbread with eggs. You will need two of them. We break them into a bowl, add a glass of sugar, a spoonful of cinnamon and one more - other spices (ginger, cardamom, nutmeg). Let's not forget to throw in a pinch of salt, as well as a bag of baking powder. Whisk until smooth but not lather. Add three large spoons of honey and one hundred thirty grams butter... We put the bowl in a water bath. You should get a smooth, homogeneous mixture without lumps. Set aside so that it cools down a little. In the meantime, sift four glasses of flour, mix it with vanilla (on the tip of a knife). We brew this mass with a warm egg-honey mixture. You should get a smooth dough that does not stick to your hands. Preheat the oven to two hundred degrees. We cover the form baking paper... Divide the dough into two halves, roll it out. We transfer one cake to the mold. We spread the filling. We level and cover with a second cake. We pinch the edges. We decorate the surface with patterns. We bake the product for forty minutes.

Filling and glaze

Pokrovsky gingerbread, reviews of which are only positive, is recommended to be sandwiched with a proprietary composition. It is very simple to do it. Nucleoli walnuts should be calcined in a dry frying pan, and then mix them with condensed milk (fresh or boiled - as you like). But you can also use any jam for the filling. For the glaze, heat two tablespoons of water and dissolve four tablespoons of sugar in it. We also add a little citric acid... After boiling, keep for another five minutes. Lubricate the cooled gingerbread with this syrup.

The long-loved delicacy of children and adults - Pokrovsky gingerbread - will adorn any table. The gingerbread prepared according to this recipe will not turn stale for several weeks.

Cooking description:

Cooking Pokrovsky gingerbread:

1. Thoroughly mix eggs, sugar, margarine, cinnamon, honey, soda in a container.

2. Put the resulting mass in a water bath for 10 minutes.

3. Pour in flour so that a not very tough elastic dough is obtained.

4. Roll out two cakes about 5 mm thick.

5. Spread the filling on one of the cakes, put the second cake on top. If you use condensed milk as a filling, you can add ground walnuts. Pinch the edges of the cake layers with a fork.

6. Put on a baking sheet, pre-greased with margarine. We put in the oven for 20 minutes at 200 degrees.

7. Cover the surface of the finished Pokrovsky gingerbread with glaze. To do this, mix the sugar and water, bring to a boil and grease the still hot gingerbread. The frosting is prepared just before the end of the baking of the gingerbread.

The pokrovsky gingerbread prepared in this way can be immediately served on the table for tea.

Bon Appetit!

Ingredients:

• Sugar - 1 Glass (in dough)
• Soft margarine - 125 Grams
• Soda - 1 Teaspoon (do not extinguish!)
• Ground cinnamon - 1 Tbsp. spoon
• Honey - 3 tbsp. spoons
• Sugar - 4 Tbsp. spoons (for glaze)
• Water - 2 Art. spoons (for glaze)
• Jam, jam, boiled condensed milk - 1 To taste (Choose the filling to taste)
• Eggs - 2 Pieces
• Flour - 1-1.5 Cups

Servings: 3-4

Recipe for Pokrovskiy gingerbread with jam and apple at home

There are many recipes for Pokrovskiy gingerbread on the Internet. Some of them use a lot of spices and spices, while others exclude eggs from the composition. This cooking option is as close as possible to an authentic recipe.

Condensed milk, marmalade, nuts, prunes, dried apricots or jam are used as a filling for Pokrovskiy gingerbread. Serving a piece honey baking with a cup of fragrant herbal drink, you can arrange a cozy home tea with your family. Due to the fact that such baked goods are perfectly stored for a long time (7-10 days), they can be made for future use. The main thing is to store the gingerbread cookies in a food box with a tight-fitting lid.

You can decorate souvenir gingerbread to your liking (make flowers, letters or patterns from the dough).

Ingredients for Pokrovskiy gingerbread:

• - cinnamon (1 tablespoon);
• - wheat flour (3.5-4 tbsp.);
• - jam (200 g);
• - soda (1 tsp);
• - butter (100 g);
• - honey (3 tablespoons);
• - sugar (1 tbsp.);
• - 2 eggs;
• - 1 apple (optional)
• - water (2 tablespoons);
• — powdered sugar(5 tablespoons).

1. In a deep-bottomed saucepan, combine granulated sugar, natural honey, baking soda, cinnamon and raw eggs.

2. Add oil to the workpiece.

3. We heat the workpiece at a minimum temperature until the honey mass acquires a homogeneous texture. We are waiting for the mixture to cool completely.

5. We combine all the ingredients for the Pokrovskiy gingerbread.

6. Divide the workpiece into 2 parts. We form two equal rectangles. We spread the blank on the mold, cover it with any jam. Add fresh apple slices if desired.

7. Put the second part in the form honey cake and pinch the edges of the Pokrovsky gingerbread. We decorate pastries to your liking. We send the pokrovsky gingerbread to the oven (180 degrees). We are waiting for 47-60 minutes.

9. Cook sweet syrup: mix powder and water in a bowl. We are waiting for the mass to boil.

10. Cover the top of the cake with the sweet mixture. We shred the Pokrovsky gingerbread in portions, serve it at any time.

Xristya shared the recipe for Pokrovsky gingerbread.

Interesting Pokrovskiy Gingerbread Facts:

Taken from the author galio1989.