A gingersnap , ginger snap , ginger nut , or ginger biscuit is a biscuit flavoured with ginger . Ginger snaps are flavoured with powdered ginger and a variety of other spices, most commonly cinnamon , molasses and clove . There are many recipes. The brittle ginger nut style is a commercial version of the traditional fairings once made for market fairs now represented only by the Cornish fairing .
3-1191: A Ginger snap is a hard gingerbread cookie. Ginger snap or Ginger Snaps may also refer to: Ginger snap Ginger nuts are not to be confused with pepper nuts , which are a variety of gingerbread , somewhat smaller in diameter, but thicker. Northern European ginger nuts, also called ginger bread or brunkage in Danish (literally, 'brown cookie'), pepparkakor in Swedish , piparkakut in Finnish , piparkūkas in Latvian , piparkoogid in Estonian and pepperkaker in Norwegian (literally, 'pepper cakes'), are rolled quite thin (often under 3 mm (0.12 in) thick), and cut into shapes; they are smooth and are usually much thinner and hence crisper (and in some cases, more strongly flavoured) than most global varieties. Cloves , cinnamon and cardamom are important ingredients of these, and
6-582: Is 8.5 grams (0.30 oz) in weight, and average about 6.5 millimetres (0.26 in) in thickness, compared to the lighter South Australia biscuit is heavier at 11.7 grams (0.41 oz) in weight, and average about 8.6 millimetres (0.34 in) in thickness. Ginger nuts are the most sold biscuit in New Zealand , normally attributed to its tough texture which can withstand dunking into liquid. Leading biscuit manufacturer Griffin's estimates 60 million of these cookies are produced each year. This has become
9-488: The actual ginger taste is not prominent. Allspice and cloves have been used to season ginger biscuits. In 2009, McVitie's Ginger Nuts were listed as the tenth most popular biscuit in the UK to dunk into tea. In Australia, produced since the 1900s, Arnott's Biscuits manufactures four different regional varieties of ginger nut to suit the tastes of people in different states. The darker and more bitter Queensland biscuit
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