i've been working with my mom's recipe for gingerbread but replacing the traditional ingredients - mainly spices from china and india - with native american ingredients, substituting ginger with chili peppers, cinnamon with allspice, almonds and hazelnuts with pecans, walnuts, and cashews, sugar with honey and maple syrup, and flour with cornmeal, and adding lots of cocoa and vanilla. the dough needs to rest for eight days in "the warm kitchen", then i cut and shape it to simulate cobblestones to resemble the pavement of the hauptmarkt. these chilibread cobblestones will serve as the currency to trade stories for food. i intend to give this collection of recorded anecdotes to the city museum of nuremberg.
a page from my mom's cookbook with her and my scribbles: improvements on her part, conversions of measurements on mine.
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